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Another Ransom Attack On A Government Agency, Suffers Data Leak After Refusing To Pay Ransom

A government’s regulatory authority of Scotland focused on protecting the environment, known as SEPA (Scottish Environment Protection Agency), suffered a ransomware attack on the evening of last Christmas, in which the cybercriminal gang somehow stole around 1.2 GB of data that was in processing. The attackers/hackers responsible for this ransomware attack demanded a ransom in…
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World-Class Team of Cybersecurity Hired By Biden After The SolarWinds Cyberattack

President Joe Biden is recruiting a team of national security veterans with profound cyber capabilities, collecting acclaim from previous defense authorities and agents as the United States government attempts to recuperate from perhaps the greatest cyberattack on its offices credited to Russian covert operatives. Suzanne Spaulding, overseer of the Defending Democratic Institutions project at the…
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Why North Korea Surpasses in Cybercrime ?

Albeit the US and the United Nations have exacted sanctions intended to forestall the illicit financing of atomic weapons, North Korea is ending up being skilled at evading them and is additionally astoundingly capable of cybercrime. As different nations attempt to pound out regular cybersecurity protocols, North Korea has quickly developed its digital capacities, both…
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Windows-Native PDF Viewers Extremely Vulnerable

A group of cybersecurity researchers found and unveiled that by far most of the most well-known Windows-local PDF viewers were defenseless (or vulnerable) against numerous assault strategies abusing standard PDF services. A few PDF software brands were defenseless against the most genuine assaults, which brought about leaking of local files, file write access, and remote…
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NPM Packages Intruded By The Malware That Steals Discord User Data

NPM (Node Package Manager) is a code repository (a code repository is where snippets and patches of source code for software programs are archived in an organized way) where sharing and reusing of code blocks is done by Javascript developers, has been added with three malevolent software packages. These packages may have been used as…
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Hacking Group FIN11 Changes Strategies, Now Using Clop Ransomware

As per the incident response researchers of the FireEye, the FIN11 monetary hacker group is moving its strategies from stealing credentials and phishing to ransomware and extortion. FIN11 is remarkable for its utter moments and activities, known to approach five unique wide-scale email phishing operations weekly. For Now, it is hard to name a specific…
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Cybersecurity Researchers Suggests That Joe Biden’s Peloton Bike Can Cause Cybersecurity Threat

Joe Biden’s wellness system may conceivably cause a surprising migraine for security administrations equipped with the protection of the new president in the White House, with his Peloton exercise bike believed by few experts as a strong cybersecurity threat. Biden is accounted for to begin every day with an exercise in a rec center outfitted…
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Discovery Of An Exploit That Allows Kindle E-Reader Takeover Was Awarded $18000 By Amazon

A cybersecurity researcher, Yogev Bar-On at Realmode Labs, an Israel-based cybersecurity consulting firm, discovered an exploit named as KindleDrip in October 2020. According to Amazon, to execute this attack successfully, it involves exploiting three different security flaws. The principal weakness in the exploit was identified with the “Send to Kindle” service, which permits clients to…
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Patched Bugs Of Signal, FB Messenger, JioChat Apps Explained By Google

A severe bug was accounted in January 2019 in Apple’s FaceTime group chats service that made it workable for clients to start a FaceTime video call and snoop on subjects by adding their own numbers as another individual in a gathering talk even earlier than the individual on the opposite side acknowledged the approaching call.…
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DNSpooq Vulnerabilities Allow DNS Cache Poisoning Of Millions of Devices

As per JSOF which is an Israel-based cybersecurity company, that discovered the security issues, explaining that hundreds of thousands of devices, because of seven security defects in dnsmasq, may be vulnerable to DNS cache poisoning (DNS caching and forwarding softwares that are commonly used in various IoT devices, routers, servers, desktop, and mobile phones) and…
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