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...

The return of Mamba ransomware

At the end of 2016, there was a major attack against San Francisco's Municipal Transportation Agency. The attack was done using Mamba ransomware. This ransomware uses a legitimate utility called DiskCryptor for full disk encryption. This month, we noted that the group behind this ransomware has...

HBO hackers leak Game of Thrones Stars data; demand multimillion dollar ransom

By Waqas The HBO hackers are demanding millions of dollars in ransom and This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: HBO hackers leak Game of Thrones Stars data; demand multimillion dollar ransom...

Game of Thrones (Season 7) Episode 5 Script Leaked — Hacker Demands Millions in Ransom

The hacking group that recently hacked HBO has just dropped its second trove of documents, including a month emails of one of the company's executives, and a detailed script of the upcoming fifth episode of "Game of Thrones" Season 7, set to be aired on August 13. The latest release is the second...

Decompiled SLocker Android Ransomware Source Code Published Online

Bad news for Android users — Decompiled source code of for one of the oldest mobile and popular Android ransomware families has been published online, making it available for cyber criminals who can use it to develop more customised and advanced variants of Android ransomware. Decompiled source...

A King’s Ransom It is Not

The first half of 2017 began with two intriguing ransomware events, both partly enabled by wormable exploit technology dumped by a group calling themselves "The ShadowBrokers". These WannaCry and ExPetr ransomware events are the biggest in the sense that they spread the quickest and most...

In ExPetr/Petya’s shadow, FakeCry ransomware wave hits Ukraine

While the cyber-world was still shaking under the destructive ExPetr/Petya attack that hit on June 27, another ransomware attack targeting Ukraine at the same time went almost unnoticed. So far, all theories regarding the spread of ExPetr/Petya point into two directions: Distribution via trojaniz...

Move Securely to the Cloud: WAF Requirements and Deployment Options

Moving to the cloud has become an overwhelmingly popular trend even among organizations that were at first reluctant to make the move. Wherever you are in your cloud migration plan, it can take time, sometimes years, and often starts with first moving peripheral workloads to the cloud while leavi...

New Petya Distribution Vectors Bubbling to Surface

Join Kaspersky Lab and Comae Technologies Thursday June 29, 2017 at 10 a.m. Eastern time for a webinar “The Inside Story of the Petya/ExPetr Ransomware.” Click here to attend. While Microsoft and others continue to shore up links between yesterday’s global ransomware outbreak and the update...

Hackers Demand Banks $315k Ransom or Face DDoS Attacks

By Waqas Armada Collective, a group of online attackers, is demanding a ransom payment of $315,000 from South Korean banks In the case of refusal, the group has threatened the banks with a series of massive Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks. The threats came days after South Korean web...