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A Master Decryption Key and Shutdown Announcement Has Been Released By The Fonix Ransomware Admin

The operators behind the Fonix ransomware have announced their shutdown and also have released the master decryption key that would serve the affected ones to recover their encrypted/locked files and documents at zero cost. Fonix ransomware was first started in June 2020 and has been targeting victims since then, it is also called the FonixCrypter…
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Is It Impossible To Take Down TrickBot Permanently?

TrickBot, which is a prominent favorite tool for cybercrime groups, is a known banking Trojan that targets consumers as well as businesses for their valuable data such as account credentials, banking details, or PII (personal identifiable information), also capable of adapting environments and networks that it targets. TrickBot faced a takedown in November 2020, by…
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Emotet – World’s Most Dangerous Malware Turned Upside Down By The European Authorities

Law enforcement authorities from as numerous as eight nations destroyed the framework of Emotet, which is an infamous email-based malware for Windows, behind a few botnet-driven spam crusades and ransomware assaults over the past years. The planned takedown of the botnet on Tuesday was named Operation Ladybird, which was the consequence of a joint exertion…
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Dark-Web Website Connected With The Netwalker Ransomware, Seized By Authorities

Authorities from the US and Bulgaria recently seized a dark web website which was utilized by the cybercrime group behind the Netwalker ransomware to distribute and sell the stolen/breached data. Nicholas L. McQuaid, the Acting Assistant Attorney General at the Criminal division of the Justice Department explained that “ransomware victims should know that coming forward…
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New Family Of Credential Stealing Android Malware, Forewarns Italy CERT

Researchers recently unveiled a new family of credential stealing Android malware which exploits the Androids accessibility service to capture video and audio of activities going on the device display and steal credentials of the user. The malware was first found by the AddressIntel and was named Oscorp by Italy’s CERT-AGID. Researchers highlighted, “it should be…
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Kaspersky Explains That Organizations In Africa Should Be More Alert And Better To Battle Cyber Attacks

Alerting your boss that your organization’s PC has been phished, survivors of a mission to acquire delicate data through false emails should be viewed as a corporate win rather than viewing it as a peril to your work. That is the adjustment in culture required at African organizations as cybersecurity threats thrive on the rear…
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A Severe Gap Filled By Threat Hunting

Threat hunting is a practice or act of searching for cyber threats that may have slipped into your networks. It is a severe discipline that, nowadays, more and more organizations are utilizing to destroy hidden espionage campaigns/attacks prior to letting them breach data or perform malicious operations. Since threat hunting utilizes human knowledge and experience…
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Iranian Whatsapp Users Migrate To Signal, Government Blocks It

The government of Iran has now blocked the trendy messaging app “Signal”, right after users migrate to it from Whatsapp. Much the same as the residents of different nations, Iranians too downloaded Signal after security/privacy worries with Facebook and WhatsApp peaked. Clients across the world shifted to Signal and Telegram in reaction to WhatsApp’s new…
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Use SMTP TLS Reporting And MTA-STS To Intensify Your Email Security

When SMTP was first determined, in 1982, it didn’t contain any component for giving security at the transmission level to ensure the safety of interchanges between mail transfer agents. The STARTTLS command was introduced to SMTP in 1999, which thus upheld the encryption of emails in the middle of the servers, giving the capacity to…
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Why Continuous Security Validation Is Crucial Nowadays ?

The Customary method of security validation is quite unpredictable and difficult which includes a progression of tests to decide whether controls are functioning as they are intended to do. It is a fastidious cycle that can fill the proposed needs. Notwithstanding, at the rate cyber assaults are expanding and developing, associations can’t stand to settle…
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