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Yesterday, some residents of Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa, were left without electricity after the city’s power company got attacked by a ransomware virus.
City Power, the company responsible for powering South Africa’s financial cap… Continue reading Ransomware Attack Caused Power Outages in the Biggest South African City
For the second time in just over a year, the city of Baltimore has been hit by a ransomware attack, affecting its computer network and forcing officials to shut down a majority of its computer servers as a precaution.
Ransomware works by encryption fi… Continue reading Baltimore City Shuts Down Most of Its Servers After Ransomware Attack
An Iran-linked cyber-espionage group that has been found targeting critical infrastructure, energy and military sectors in Saudi Arabia and the United States two years ago continues targeting organizations in the two nations, Symantec reported on Wedne… Continue reading Elfin Hacking Group Targets Multiple U.S. and Saudi Arabian Firms
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One of the world’s largest producers of aluminum has been forced to shut down several of its plants across Europe and the U.S. after an “extensive cyber attack” hit its operations, leaving companies’ IT systems un… Continue reading Ransomware Attack Forces Aluminum Manufacturer to Shutdown Systems Worldwide
Here’s the latest Naked Security podcast – enjoy! Continue reading Ep.021 – Leaked calls, a social media virus and passwords exposed [PODCAST]
It’s not just the critical Drupal vulnerability that is being exploited by in the wild cybercriminals to attack vulnerable websites that have not yet applied patches already available by its developers, but hackers are also exploiting a critical WinRAR… Continue reading Latest WinRAR Flaw Being Exploited in the Wild to Hack Windows Computers
A malicious Windows EXE file can even infect your Mac computer as well.
Yes, you heard me right — a .exe malware on macOS.
Security researchers at antivirus firm Trend Micro have discovered a novel way hackers are using in the wild to bypass Apple’s … Continue reading Beware!! New Windows .exe Malware Found Targeting macOS Computers
Shamoon is back… one of the most destructive malware families that caused damage to Saudi Arabia’s largest oil producer in 2012 and this time it has targeted energy sector organizations primarily operating in the Middle East.
Earlier this week, Italia… Continue reading New Shamoon Malware Variant Targets Italian Oil and Gas Company
A new piece of ransomware is spreading rapidly across China that has already infected more than 100,000 computers in the last four days as a result of a supply-chain attack… and the number of infected users is continuously increasing every hour.
Wha… Continue reading New Ransomware Spreading Rapidly in China Infected Over 100,000 PCs
VirusTotal, the virus and malware scanning service own by Alphabet’s Chronicle, launched an enterprise-grade version of its service today. VirusTotal Enterprise offers significantly faster and more customizable malware search, as well as a new feature called Private Graph, which allows enterprises to create their own private visualizations of their infrastructure and malware that affects their machines. […] Continue reading Alphabet’s Chronicle launches an enterprise version of VirusTotal