Electobars, Cobel hit by Ransomware
The incident occurred at its Eletronuclear subsidiary and was classified as a ransomware attack. It affected some of the administrative network servers and had no impact on operations at nuclear…
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Skype Spoofing Vulnerability
Several purported security flaws in Skype have been disclosed publicly, but Microsoft claims they do not need “immediate security servicing”. The researcher first began examining Skype in the second week…
BabuK attacked Serco
Outsourcing giant Serco has affirmed that parts of its infrastructure in mainland Europe have been hit by a double extortion ransomware assault from the new Babuk group The parts of…
Google Patched 0 day in wild
Google has released today version 88.0.4324.150 of the Chrome browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux. . The zero-day, which was assigned the identifier of CVE-2021-21148, was described as a "heap…
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FortiNet Vulnerability
Fortinet has addressed four vulnerabilities in FortiWeb web application firewalls The first vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-29015, is a blind SQL injection that resides in the FortiWeb user interface. The flaw could be exploited…
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QR Code Phishing
QR codes, an effective tool for contactless transactional activities especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. Quick Response (QR) codes were originally developed back in the mid-nineties for utilization in the Japanese…
Posted inChrome Browser
Defender false positives chrome update
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint began flagging yesterday’s Google Chrome update as malicious, alarming users and admins and creating confusion among them. Hey @msftsecresponse - Seeing lots of Defender ATP alerts this morning…
Matryosh Malware
A nascent malware campaign has been spotted co-opting Android devices into a botnet with the primary purpose of carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Called "Matryosh" by Qihoo 360's Netlab…