In an alarming twist to cybercrime, criminals are now leveraging the Microsoft 365 Admin Portal to send sextortion emails, a tactic that is bypassing the usual spam filters thanks to the legitimacy of the Microsoft accounts involved. This issue, which surfaced on November 18, 2024, has raised...
In a world where cyber threats loom larger each day, Forbes has recently published a concerning report highlighting a "global attack" that is specifically targeting Windows users across multiple countries. Author Zak Doffman outlines this rising threat in his article titled, "New Microsoft...
Original release date: April 15, 2020 | Last revised: June 23, 2020
Summary
The U.S. Departments of State, the Treasury, and Homeland Security, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are issuing this advisory as a comprehensive resource on the North Korean cyber threat for the international...
Original release date: April 14, 2020 | Last revised: April 15, 2020
Summary
The U.S. Departments of State, the Treasury, and Homeland Security, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are issuing this advisory as a comprehensive resource on the North Korean cyber threat for the international...
I'd strongly recommend everyone read the article and pass it along to friends and family.
Beware, online shoppers! Cybercriminals have registered over 100,000 look-alike domains that resemble popular retail websites | Cyware Hacker News
As happened recently with WannaCrypt, we again face a malicious attack in the form of ransomware, Petya. In early reports, there was a lot of conflicting information reported on the attacks, including conflation of unrelated and misleading pieces of data, so Microsoft teams mobilized to...
Cybersecurity threats both new and known, from Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), to the Internet of Things (IoT), to the shortage of cyberworkers, threaten us each day. To help protect ourselves and our customers, we mobilize threat intelligence and machine learning, a mindset of “assume...
don't get suckered into the imitation software … always go directly to the source … in this case www.malwarebytes.com .
yep, another new ransomware variant is making the rounds … trying to pass itself off as legitimate software. supposedly the filename is...
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Got hacked April 8 after Android Z3 stolen. Was aware after event, comp was compromised. Changed all Pwords, 2 weeks after changed all Pwords. But see now how they have done things, they didn't write script, enter trojan, key loger (?), nup. All he did was change settings, Administrator...
Security vendors FireEye and Fox IT have launched a Web tool which allows victims of Cryptolocker Malware attacks to decrypt files without paying ransom to cybercriminals. Cryptolocker is Windows-based ransomware which relies on disguise to infect systems and encrypt files, demanding a payment...
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Original release date: June 02, 2014
Systems Affected
Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, and 8
Microsoft Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, and Server 2012
Overview
GameOver Zeus (GOZ), a peer-to-peer (P2P) variant of the Zeus family of bank credential-stealing malware...
Original release date: November 05, 2013 | Last revised: November 06, 2013
Systems Affected
Microsoft Windows systems running Windows 7, Vista, and XP operating systems
Overview
US-CERT is aware of a malware campaign that surfaced in 2013 and is associated with an increasing number of...