Data Pours from Cloud—And ‘The Enemy is Us’

Accenture, Verizon, Dow Jones and Deep Root Analytics are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the millions of private records and sensitive enterprise data exposed on cloud backends this year. And the problem is getting worse not better. “The enemy is us,” said Chris Vickery, director of...

The Dark Overlord hacks plastic surgery clinic; demands ransom

By Uzair Amir Nude pictures never go unnoticed, and when these belong to This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The Dark Overlord hacks plastic surgery clinic; demands ransom...

Excerpts from The Ransomware Economy: Emergence and Innovation

Carbon Black recently published an investigative report on the Dark Web marketplace for ransomware. This is an excerpt from that report, which you can find here. For more information about the rise of ransomware, and what you can do about it, check out the Future-Proof Your Ransomware Prevention...

Bad Rabbit – Ransomware

updated: 10/26/2017 with additional file hashes and mitigations A new ransomware campaign has affected at least three Russian media companies in a fast-spreading malware attack. Fontanka and Interfax are among the companies affected by the Bad Rabbit ransomware named by the researchers who first...

BadRabbit ransomware strikes Eastern Europe

A new strain of ransomware called BadRabbit is spreading through Eastern Europe. Likely created by the same authors as the Petya/Not Petya ransomware outbreak in June, BadRabbit ransomware uses a website to drop a fake Flash update and then drops its payload. Click to view slideshow. Countries we...

Bad Rabbit: New Ransomware Attack Rapidly Spreading Across Europe

A new widespread ransomware attack is spreading like wildfire around Europe and has already affected over 200 major organisations, primarily in Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and Germany, in the past few hours. Dubbed "Bad Rabbit," is reportedly a new Petya-like targeted ransomware attack against...

Multiple Ransomware Infections Reported

US-CERT has received multiple reports of ransomware infections, known as Bad Rabbit, in many countries around the world. A suspected variant of Petya, Bad Rabbit is ransomware—malicious software that infects a computer and restricts user access to the infected machine until a ransom is paid to...

‘BadRabbit’ Ransomware Burrows Into Russia, Ukraine

ARCHIVED STORY ‘BadRabbit’ Ransomware Burrows Into Russia, Ukraine By Raj Samani · October 24, 2017 This post was researched and written by Tim Hux, David Marcus, Charles McFarland, Douglas McKee, and Raj Samani. McAfee is currently investigating a ransomware campaign known as BadRabbit, which...

FBI Asks Businesses to Share Details About DDoS Attacks

The FBI has made an appeal to organizations victimized by DDoS attacks to share details and characteristics of those incidents, echoing a similar plea made last year in the throes of a relentless wave of ransomware attacks. The bureau said victims should contact local field offices regardless of...

New Ransomware Not Just Encrypts Your Android But Also Changes PIN Lock

DoubleLocker—as the name suggests, it locks device twice. Security researchers from Slovakia-based security software maker ESET have discovered a new Android ransomware that not just encrypts users’ data, but also locks them out of their devices by changing lock screen PIN. On top of that:...

NFL Players and Agents Targeted in Database Extortion Attempt

A misconfigured database containing records belonging to 1,133 National Football League players and their agents was exposed via an unsecured Elasticsearch server. The database belongs to the NFL Players Association and includes the home address, phone numbers and IP addresses for hundreds of...

“Your Windows has Been Banned” Malware Returns with Higher Ransom Demand

By Uzair Amir “Your Windows Has Been Banned” malware is back and this This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Your Windows has Been Banned Malware Returns with Higher Ransom Demand...

Attacker demands ransom after series of DDoS attacks on Poker site

By Waqas On the evening of September 1st, 2017, an unknown attacker This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Attacker demands ransom after series of DDoS attacks on Poker site...

The WireX Botnet: An Example of Cross-Organizational Cooperation

On August 17th, 2017, multiple Content Delivery Networks CDNs and content providers were subject to significant attacks from a botnet dubbed WireX. The botnet is named for an anagram for one of the delimiter strings in its command and control protocol. The WireX botnet comprises primarily Android...

Defray Ransomware Seen Targeting Education, Healthcare Industry

Researchers observed a new, albeit small and selective ransomware campaign earlier this month targeting both education and healthcare verticals. The ransomware, dubbed Defray, comes hidden in rigged Microsoft Word document attachments, sent via email. Researchers with Proofpoint, who spotted two...

Analysis of Ronggolawe Ransomware and How to Block It

In the last few years ransomware attacks have been significantly on the rise. This infamous trend began by targeting end point users’ machines, such as personal desktop and laptops. Later, it evolved and broadened the attack surface to target mobile phones and servers. Web Servers Not Immune to...

Game of Thrones and HBO — Twitter, Facebook Accounts Hacked

The Game of Thrones hacking saga continues, but this time it's the HBO's and GOT's official Twitter and Facebook accounts got compromised, rather than upcoming episodes. As if the leak of episodes by hackers and the accidental airing of an upcoming episode of Game of Thrones by HBO itself were no...

Oopss! HBO Itself Accidentally Leaked 'Game of Thrones' Season 7 Episode 6

HBO doesn't need hackers to leak its widely watched "Game of Thrones" episodes, as it is sufficient enough to leak them by its own. In what seems to be a terrible blunder, HBO Spain appeared to have accidentally broadcast the next episode—Episode 6—of Game of Thrones season 7 five days before its...

HBO Offered Hackers $250,000 As Ransom to Prevent More Leaks

Hackers who recently hacked into HBO network and stole scripts, shows, and employee information documents, have now provided an email in which the United States cable channel offered them $250,000. The company offered the payment as a "bounty payment" reward in which companies reward white-hat...

Digital exchange joins law enforcement in hunt for WannaCry ransom bitcoins

By Waqas Patrick O’Neill, a journalist at CyberScoopNews, has claimed that since This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Digital exchange joins law enforcement in hunt for WannaCry ransom bitcoins...