Colombian healthcare provider Keralty and its subsidiaries, EPS Sanitas and Colsanitas, have been hit by a ransomware attack. The incident disrupted the company’s IT operations, websites, and scheduling of medical appointments. Although Keralty initially described the disruption as technical issues, it later confirmed that the companies’ computer servers had been targeted by cybercriminals, causing technical […]
Cybersecurity firm ESET has uncovered a previously unknown backdoor called Dolphin, which has been used by North Korean hackers in highly targeted operations for more than a year. The backdoor was employed by the APT 37 group (also known as Reaper, Red Eyes, Erebus, ScarCruft) against specific targets aligned with North Korean interests. ESET’s researchers […]
The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has announced that the supplier transparency function removed from the recently launched G-Cloud 13 framework will be temporarily removed and restored by mid-December. The much-delayed flagship cloud procurement framework of the government went live two months later than planned on 9 November 2022. However, members of the public sector IT […]
A 22-year-old student from Bavaria has been arrested by Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) on suspicion of being the administrator of ‘Deutschland im Deep Web’ (DiDW), a major darknet market in the country. The platform had already been offline since March 2022, but at the time of its closure had 16,000 registered users, 28,000 […]
According to AhnLab Security Emergency Response Center (ASEC) researchers, the FARGO ransomware is a highly active strain that focuses on MS-SQL servers, alongside GlobeImposter. Previously known as “Mallox” for its use of the “.mallox” file extension, the FARGO family of malware has also been referred to as “TargetCompany” by Avast researchers. Although statistical data from […]
Three workers at a Google Data Center have been critically burned following an explosion Three workers at a Google Data Center have been critically burned following an explosion Yesterday, an electrical explosion occurred at Google’s data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, leaving three people with severe burns. First responders immediately arrived at the scene and […]
The FBI has retrieved the $500,000 ransom paid by healthcare organizations to the Maui ransomware The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the successful seizure of approximately $500,000 worth of Bitcoin, which had been paid by American healthcare providers to the operators of the Maui ransomware strain. The seizure follows the discovery of Maui by […]
Elon Musk, the controversial entrepreneur and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is facing a massive $258 billion lawsuit over his involvement with the cryptocurrency Dogecoin. The lawsuit was filed by Keith Johnson, who alleges that Musk and his companies were part of a racketeering scheme designed to control the price of Dogecoin and deceive people […]
Microsoft’s May 2022 Patch Tuesday is underway, featuring fixes for a total of 75 flaws, including three zero-day vulnerabilities, with one being actively exploited. Eight of these flaws are classified as ‘Critical’ as they allow remote code execution or elevation of privileges. Of the 75 vulnerabilities, there are 21 elevation of privilege vulnerabilities, four security […]
Atlassian, a provider of cloud-based collaboration software, has attributed a prolonged partial outage to an update to a maintenance script. The outage, which began on April 5th, is still ongoing, affecting services including Jira Software, Jira Work Management, Jira Service Management, Confluence, Opsgenie Cloud, Statuspage, and Atlassian Access for some of its customers. Around 400 […]