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Costa Rica's outgoing president, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, has said that a ransomware attack on the government's computer systems was an attempt to destabilise the country as it transitions to a new administration.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Someone isn't happy that Ukraine's post office has issued stamps mocking the sunken Russian navy flagship.
Researchers have spotted that the TOR address used by the notorious REvil ransomware gang is now redirecting to a new website, with information about seemingly new attacks.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Sometimes referred to as Sodinokibi, the notorious REvil ransomware-as-a-service (RAAS) enterprise was responsible for a series of high profile attacks against the likes of the world’s biggest meat supplier JBS Foods and IT service firm Kaseya. However, it looked like its activities had come to a halt after law enforcement agencies pushed REvil offline in […]… Read More
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Security researchers at Kaspersky have released a free decryption tool that promises to recover files for organisations hit by the Yanlouwang ransomware, meaning they don't have to pay the ransom.
A man loses $650,000 from his cryptocurrency wallet after his Apple iCloud account is hacked, video conferencing apps may not be muting your mic quite the way you imagined, and Google has unblurred military bases in Russia... or has it?
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by The Cyberwire's Dave Bittner.
Cryptocurrency wallet maker MetaMask has warned its 21 million monthly users to be wary of Apple iCloud backing up their app's data by default, after attackers successfully stole $650,000 of funds and NFTs.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Online greeting cards business Funky Pigeon was forced to close its doors temporarily last week after a "cybersecurity incident."
Visitors to the company's website were still being greeted as recently as Monday with a message saying that it could not accept new orders.
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