The latest high-profile cybercrime exploits attributed to the Clop ransomware crew aren’t your traditional sort of ransomware attacks (if “traditional” is the right word for an extortion mechanism that goes back only to 1989). Conventional ransomware attacks are where your files get scrambled, your business gets totally derailed, and a message appears telling you that…
Yesterday, we wrote about cybercrime charges that were finally unsealed for a massive cryptocurrency heist that was allegedly conducted over a three-year period starting back in 2011. Today’s long-term cybercrime justice story concerns the last member of the so-called Gozi Troika, three men who were originally charged in January 2013 for malware-related crimes that apparently…
Last week, Progress Software Corporation, which sells software and services for user interface development, devops, file management and more, alerted customers of its MOVEit Transfer and related MOVEit Cloud products about a critical vulnerability dubbed CVE-2023-34362. As the name suggests, MOVEit Transfer is a system that makes it easy to store and share files throughout…
The Google Authenticator 2FA app has featured strongly in cybersecurity news stories lately, with Google adding a feature to let you backup your 2FA data into the cloud and then restore it onto other devices. To explain, a 2FA (two-factor authentication) app is one of those programs that you run on your mobile phone or…
We’ll be honest, and admit that we hadn’t heard of the printer management software PaperCut until this week. In fact, the first time we heard the name was in the context of cybercriminality and malware attacks, and we naively assumed that “PaperCut” was what we like to call a BWAIN. A BWAIN is our satirical…
If you’re a Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge browser fan, you’re probably getting updates automatically and you’re probably up to date already. However… …just in case you’ve missed any updates recently, we suggest you go and check right now, because the Chromium browser core, on which both Edge and Chrome are based, has patched not…
Last week, we warned about the appearance of two critical zero-day bugs that were patched in the very latest versions of macOS (version 13, also known as Ventura), iOS (version 16), and iPadOS (version 16). Zero-days, as the name suggests, are security vulnerabilities that were found by attackers, and put to real-life use for cybercriminal…
Internet telephony company 3CX is warning its customers of malware that was apparently weaseled into the company’s own 3CX Desktop App by cybercriminals who seem to have acquired access to one or more of 3CX’s source code repositories. As you can imagine, given that the company is scrambling not only to figure out what happened,…
Deciphering Microsoft’s official Update Guide web pages is not for the faint-hearted. Most of the information you need, if not everything you’d really like to know, is there, but there’s such a dizzing number of ways to view it, and so many generated-on-the-fly pages are needed to display it, that it can be tricky to…
Hot on the heels of the LastPass data breach saga, which first came to light in August 2022, comes news of a Twitter breach, apparently based on a Twitter bug that first made headlines back in the same month. According to a screenshot posted by news site Bleeping Computer, a cybercriminal has advertised: I’m selling…
Interested in $10,000,000? Ready to turn in the Clop ransomware crew?
