Indonesia gov ransomware chaos may be over after hack group apologizes and says it has shared decrypt keys
Ransomware group Brain Cipher has announced that it will reveal its decrypt keys in the wake of a ransomware attack it conducted […]
Tag: Cyber Security
Indonesia, suffering from a ransomware attack, discovers it has no backups — ‘That’s stupidity,’ remarks astute government official
A cyber attack in Indonesia that’s been called the worst in years exposed a critical mistake in the country’s information technology policy. […]
Intelbroker claims they hacked Apple in the same week as AMD
Intelbroker, a notorious criminal, has certainly been busy this week as they claimed to have hacked AMD and now Apple. On Thursday […]
AMD working with law enforcement after reports of massive data breach — hack may have uncovered future product details
AMD late on Tuesday said that it had begun to investigate claims that its internal network, containing sensitive information, had been breached, […]
Office 2007 infosec researcher recalls panic after major bug announcement turned out to be a false positive
Greg Linares, who goes by the handle Laughing Mantis, shared a funny story on X on how he and his teammates announced […]
‘ShrinkLocker’ ransomware uses BitLocker against you — encryption-craving malware has already been used against governments
BitLocker has been weaponized again by the new “ShrinkLocker” ransomware attack. The attack uses novel methods to make a classic BitLocker attack […]
Intel issues advisories for 90 security vulnerabilities — includes critical level 10 for AI tools
In keeping with industry tradition, Intel released 41 security advisories, for over 90 vulnerabilities, yesterday on Patch Tuesday. The advisories covered flaws […]
Alleged cryptojacker arrested for money laundering, $3.5 million in cloud service fraud — ultimately mined less than $1 million in crypto
The U.S. Attorney’s office announced the arrest and indictment of crypto miner Charles O. Parks, also known as ‘CP3O,’ who defrauded and […]
Password-cracking botnet has taken over WordPress sites to attack using the visitor’s browser
As reported by Ars Technica, cybersecurity researcher Denis Sinegubko has been monitoring ongoing website hacking activities for a long time. Now, he […]
Graphics card flaw enables data theft in AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm chips by exploiting GPU memory
A new security vulnerability called LeftoverLocals affects GPUs made by some of the leading names, like AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm. It enables […]