Security News > 2022 > January
Contractors employed via umbrella company Parasol Group are increasingly nervous about a multi-day outage of some IT systems used to process payroll, with several suspecting a security attack as the root cause. Greet Borsens, the chief sales officer at Parasol Group, itself part of Optionis Group, wrote to its contractor customers on 12 January confirming "a systems outage in parts of our group" affecting the MyParasol portal.
At least 15 websites belonging to various Ukrainian public institutions were compromised, defaced, and subsequently taken offline. As a result of a massive cyber attack, the websites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a number of other government agencies are temporarily down.
Cyberattackers brought down around 70 Ukrainian government websites on Friday, defacing the site of the foreign ministry with a message to "Be afraid and expect the worst." NEWS IN KYIV: Several Ukrainian government websites down due to a major a cyberattack.
A "Massive" cyber attack on Ukraine caught the world's eye this morning as the country's foreign ministry said its website, among others, had been taken down by unidentified hackers. Ukraine itself held off on attribution, with a foreign ministry spokesman telling the Reuters newswire it was too early to say who was responsible - but adding Russia has done similar things in the past.
Russia's Federal Security Service has swooped in to "Liquidate" the REvil ransomware gang, it said on Friday. The move comes two weeks after a high-stakes phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden, who has been calling for action against Russia-dwelling ransomware gangs for months.
Researchers have discovered three WordPress plug-ins with the same vulnerability that allows an attacker to update arbitrary site options on a vulnerable site and completely take it over. On Nov. 5, 2021, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team started a process to disclose a vulnerability researchers had found in "Login/Signup Popup," a WordPress plug-in installed on more than 20,000 sites, Wordfence's Chloe Chamberland wrote in a post published online Thursday.
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation says that they shut down the REvil ransomware gang after U.S. authorities reported on the leader.REvil ransomware emerged in April 2019 from the void left behind by the shut down of the GandCrab operation.
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation says that they shut down the REvil ransomware gang after U.S. authorities reported on the leader. More than a dozen members of the gang have been arrested following police raids at 25 addresses, the Russian security agency says in a press release today.
Researchers have developed a malware detection system that uses EM waves: "Obfuscation Revealed: Leveraging Electromagnetic Signals for Obfuscated Malware Classification." They use numerous customized firmware and hardware, without taking into consideration security issues, which make them a target for cybercriminals, especially malware authors.
Once data is backed up, many organisations tend to forget about it. Firstly, ransomware attackers are data savvy enough to know that hitting a target's backups first means they are more likely to pay up a ransom.