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Researchers from Cisco Talos working with the Dutch police obtained a decryption tool for the Tortilla variant of Babuk ransomware and shared intelligence that led to the arrest of the ransomware's operator. Tortilla is a Babuk ransomware variant that emerged in the wild shortly after the source code of the original malware leaked on a hacker forum.
A US Naval sailor will face more than two years behind bars after pleading guilty to taking bribes from Chinese spies in exchange for sensitive military information. Larissa L Knapp, executive assistant director of the FBI's national security branch, said China's efforts to undermine the national security of the US and its allies have been "Aggressive" and at times illegal.
The Paraguay military is warning of Black Hunt ransomware attacks after Tigo Business suffered a cyberattack last week impacting cloud and hosting services in the company's business division. "On January 4, we were victims of a security incident in our Tigo Business Paraguay infrastructure as a service, which has affected the normal supply of some specific services to a limited group of clients in the corporate segment." reads a statement from Tigo Business.
A threat actor called Water Curupira has been observed actively distributing the PikaBot loader malware as part of spam campaigns in 2023. “PikaBot’s operators ran phishing campaigns, targeting...
Researchers have discovered over two dozen vulnerabilities in "Smart" cordless nutrunners manufactured by Bosch Rexroth that could be exploited to make the devices inoperable or their output unreliable. The device supports a number of communication protocols that are used to integrate it with SCADA systems, PLCs, or other production devices.
The key feature of this technical alliance lies in streamlining the essential data and information of IP addresses provided by the Criminal IP search engine to Tenable Vulnerability Management. Integrating Criminal IP with Tenable Vulnerability Management will equip users with the comprehensive feature of Criminal IP for detecting IP assets.
Users of the Firefox browser for Android have been reporting that they are seeing a blank page when trying to load the main Google Search site. A report of the issue on GitHub confirms that the problem is reproducible on Firefox Mobile 121.0 for Android 13 and additional tests indicate the same behavior on Firfox Nightly 123 and all versions starting v65.
Poorly secured Microsoft SQL (MS SQL) servers are being targeted in the U.S., European Union, and Latin American (LATAM) regions as part of an ongoing financially motivated campaign to gain...
Security researchers have put out an updated decryptor for the Babuk ransomware family, providing a free solution for victims of the Tortilla variant. Cisco Talos said it obtained the Babuk Tortilla decryptor and shared it with Avast, which already hosts the industry's go-to generic Babuk decryptor, now updated to support Tortilla victims.
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