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It appears that LockerGoga, the same ransomware that hit aluminum manufacturing giant Norsk Hydro this week, also infected American chemicals companies Hexion and Momentive, leaving employees locked out of their computers. Based on the ransom message, …
Continue ReadingA ransomware attack appears to have affected two American chemicals companies, Motherboard has learned. Hexion and Momentive, which make resins, silicones, and other materials, and are controlled by the same investment fund, were hit by the ransomware …
Continue Readingvia www.infosecurity-magazine.com Virtualized Calls a Top Threat for ATO AttacksAccording to the 2019 State of the Call Center Authentication report from TRUSTID, a Neustar company, one of the most exploited areas in a company’s security chain is the c…
Continue ReadingAfter analyzing several previously unknown malicious files that were detected earlier this month,
determined the files were a Kaspersky Lab new version of a data stealer known as the AZORult Trojan. Because the files are written in C++, and not Delphi…
Continue ReadingThe UK Police Federation of England & Wales (PFEW) website was subject to a malware attack that it discovered on March 9, 2019. It appears that this was a ransomware attack; but the strain has not been announced. “The malware is a type of malicious sof…
Continue ReadingGIVEN THE POLICE’S limited effectiveness when it comes to dealing with online crime, it’s perhaps unsurprising that the UK Police Federation has been hit by a malware attack. The organisation represents 119,000 police officers across England and Wales,…
Continue ReadingThe info-graphics shows the latest numbers in different aspects of international cyber threats. Data is collected from The World Economic Forum, Internet Governance Forum, International Telecommunication Union, ITU-IMPACT, NATO Cooperative Cyber Defenc…
Continue ReadingMalicious actors have hit the computer systems of the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) with a malware attack that, at one point, threatened to spread across the entire organisation. The association body representing near-120,000 officers w…
Continue ReadingBut at the back end of 2018, the main seller, known under the handle CrydBrox, stopped selling the malware: “All software has a shelf life. It’s run out for AZORult. It is with joy and sadness that I announce that sales are closed forever.” Some attrib…
Continue ReadingDespite increasing global investments in cyber security solutions and services, cyber criminals are still able to inflict huge financial losses to businesses. Gartner expects that by 2021, businesses will lose about $6 trillion to cyber crime. Therefor…
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