Shamoon is back… one of the most destructive malware families that caused damage to Saudi Arabia’s largest oil producer in 2012 and this time it has targeted energy sector organizations primarily operating in the Middle…
By Carolina The Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas (CPFs) is a taxpayer registry identification for Brazilians – In this case, 120 million CPFs were exposed online. The IT security researchers at InfoArmor’s Advanced Threat Intelligence team discovered a…
This week, the WordPress development team released on Thursday the version 5.0.1 of the popular CMS, that addresses several flaws. The Researcher Tim Coen discovered several cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the CMS. One of the flaws…
“Pay $20,000 worth of bitcoin, or a bomb will detonate in your building” A massive number of businesses, schools, government offices and individuals across the US, New Zealand and Canada on Thursday received bomb threats…
Security experts at Palo Alto Networks uncovered a new espionage campaign carried out by Russia-Linked APT group Sofacy. Russian Cyber espionage group Sofacy (aka APT28, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, Sednit, Tsar Team, and Strontium)) carried out a new cyber campaign aimed at government…
By Waqas Ransomware has become a persistent threat to users globally but for cybercriminals, it is a lucrative business. Recently, IT security researchers at Check Point unearthed a sophisticated ransomware decryption scam in which a Russian…
The French foreign ministry announced today that its travel alert registry website had been hacked and personal data of citizens “could be misused”. The French foreign ministry confirmed tha hackers breached into the Ariane system, its…
McAfee uncovered a campaign tracked as Operation Sharpshooter that hit at least 87 organizations in global defense and critical infrastructure. Security experts at McAfee uncovered a hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Sharpshooter, aimed at infrastructure…
InfoArmor discovered a misconfigured server online that contained taxpayer identification numbers for 120 million Brazilian taxpayers In March 2018, security experts at InfoArmor discovered a misconfigured server online that contained taxpayer identification numbers, or Cadastro de…
A new variant of the Shamoon malware, aka DistTrack, was uploaded to VirusTotal from Italy this week, but experts haven’t linked it to a specific attack yet. Shamoon was first observed in 2012 when it infected…