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Top Steps for Ransomware Recovery and Preparation

When it comes to ransomware attacks, it’s no longer a question of if or even when, but how often. A business falls victim to a ransomware attack every 11 seconds, making ransomware the fastest-growing type of cybercrime. Businesses today need to not only think about strategies to prevent...

Security Bulletin: openSSL and Apache Hadoop vulnerability impacting Aspera High-Speed Transfer Server, Aspera High-Speed Transfer Endpoint, Aspera Desktop Client, Aspera On Demand (CVE-2020-1971, CVE-2020-9492)

Summary The openSSL vulnerability CVE-2020-1971 and Apache Hadoop vulnerability CVE-2020-9492 impacts Aspera High-Speed Transfer Server, Aspera High-Speed Transfer Endpoint, Aspera Desktop Client, Aspera High-Speed Transfer Server On Demand and Aspera High-Speed Transfer Endpoint On Demand 4.1.1...

DEPSTECH WiFi Digital Microscope 安全漏洞

DEPSTECH WiFi Digital Microscope is a wifi industrial endoscope from Shenzhen Shenhai Innovation Technology Co., Ltd. in China. DEPSTECH WiFi Digital Microscope 3 has a security vulnerability that allows remote attackers to change the SSID and password and demand a ransom from the legitimate devi...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Apache Xerces-C XML parser, including XML4C affects IBM InfoSphere Optim Masking On Demand

Summary Open Source Xerces-C XML parser vulnerability affects IBM InfoSphere Optim Masking On Demand Data Privacy components. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2016-0729 DESCRIPTION: Apache Xerces-C XML Parser library is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper bounds checking during...

Security Bulletin: Multiple Vulnerabilites in IBM Java Runtime Affect IBM InfoSphere Optim Masking On Demand

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Version 6 used by Optim Masking on Demand. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in January 2017. Vulnerability Details If you run your own Java code using the IBM Java Runtime delivered with th...

Kaseya Rules Out Supply-Chain Attack; Says VSA 0-Day Hit Its Customers Directly

U.S. technology firm Kaseya, which is firefighting the largest ever supply-chain ransomware strike on its VSA on-premises product, ruled out the possibility that its codebase was unauthorizedly tampered with to distribute malware. While initial reports raised speculations that REvil, the ransomwa...

Revil ransomware increases ransom to $70M in Kaseya attack

By Sudais Asif The Revil ransomware group has released a notice stating that more than 1 million systems have been infected - far more than initially believed. A couple of days ago, we reported on how the infamous REvil ransomware had targeted over 40 Managed Service Providers MSPs compromising...

UPDATED: Kaseya hijacked, thousands attacked by REvil, fix delayed again

Malwarebytes does not use Kaseya products. Malwarebytes detects the REvil ransomware used in this attack as Sodinokibi. Latest updates July 7, 8:30 am, Kaseya VSA SaaS platform still offline, not updated as planned July 6, 3:40 pm, malspam using fake Kaseya security update July 6, 3:15 am,...

Oh FCUK! Fashion Label, Medical Diagnostics Firm Latest REvil Victims

U.K.-based fashion brand French Connection, which advertises under the acronym “FCUK,” confirmed that it has been compromised by ransomware group REvil. Just hours later, Brazilian medical diagnostics firm Grupo Fleury announced it had the same misfortune. The twin attacks reveal shifting...

Command Execution Vulnerability in SEACMS (CNVD-2021-47165)

SEACMS is a video-on-demand system designed for webmasters with different needs. SEACMS suffers from a command execution vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker to gain control of the server...

On the Taxonomy and Evolution of Ransomware

Given the frequency with which “ransomware” appears in news articles, it may be worthwhile to take a step back and actually consider what the term means. Any malware or attack that culminates in extorting ransom from the victim is commonly referred to as ransomware. The general idea is to encrypt...

Healthcare service faces test of willpower with Ransomware authors

Healthcare and ransomware are in the news in a big way. Data leaks are inevitable, but those are typically associated with accidents by the general public. Possibly the most malicious type of data spillage is when people compromising said data decide to do the spilling. It’s one thing to...

RHEL 8 : systemd (RHSA-2021:1611)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:1611 advisory. The systemd packages contain systemd, a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with the SysV and LSB init scripts. It provides...

Ransomware Is Getting Ugly

Modern ransomware has two dimensions: pay to get your data back, and pay not to have your data dumped on the Internet. The DC police are the victims of this ransomware, and the criminals have just posted personnel records -- "including the results of psychological assessments and polygraph tests;...

SKYUC video-on-demand system has SQL injection vulnerability

SKYUC video on demand system is a theater solution built using PHP language and MYSQL database. SKYUC Video-on-Demand System suffers from SQL injection vulnerability. Attackers can use the vulnerability to obtain database sensitive information...

Why Retailers Fail to Stop Shopping Bots

In the 1970s the United States encountered an “oil embargo” that dramatically curtailed people from being able to purchase gasoline for their vehicles. “No Gas Today” signs were everywhere. Gas rationing was imposed by only allowing car owners to buy gas based on whether the final numbers on thei...

CVE-2021-28899

Vulnerability in the AC3AudioFileServerMediaSubsession, ADTSAudioFileServerMediaSubsession, and AMRAudioFileServerMediaSubsessionLive OnDemandServerMediaSubsession subclasses in Networks LIVE555 Streaming Media before 2021.3.16...

FeiFeiCMS Path Traversal Vulnerability

FeiFeiCMS is an open source PHP video on demand system . FeiFeiCMS version 4.0 has a path traversal vulnerability that can be exploited to delete arbitrary files by sending a specially crafted HTTP request to the Admin/DataAction.class.php component...

Conti ransomware gang demanded $40m from US school district

By Habiba Rashid Broward County Schools district in Fort Lauderdale, FL was attacked by the infamous Conti ransomware group last month. In a series of ransomware attacks on educational institutions that have been going on for the past few weeks, this time around, Broward County Public Schools in...