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The FBI is warning against the activities of Ranzy Locker ransomware that has already targeted 30 companies in the U.S. Active since 2020, the ransomware group has demonstrated its abilities by crawling into the networks of multiple industries. Ranzy a potential threat The targeted industries include the construction sub-sector of critical manufacturing, the academia sub-sectorContinue reading “Beware of Ranzy Locker Ransomware: FBI Warns”

According to the social media giant, Solonchenko, who worked as a freelance computer programmer, abused its Contact Importer tool to scrape the user IDs and phone numbers of millions of Facebook users. The Contact Importer feature in Facebook Messenger allowed users to upload their contacts from the address book on their mobile devices. Contact ImporterContinue reading “Facebook last week filed a lawsuit against a Ukrainian national who allegedly scraped the information of 178 million of its users and then sold the obtained information on hacker forums.”

CoinMarketCap says it has found no evidence of a data beach despite the circulation of a list of 3.1 million email addresses that correlates with accounts on its service. CoinMarketCap is a website that tracks the price movement of cryptocurrency. Binance Capital Management, which runs cryptocurrency exchanges, acquired CoinMarketCap in April 2020. The data isContinue reading “No Breach Despite 3.1M Email Address Leak”

Several ransomware gangs posted lengthy anti-U.S. screeds, viewed by NBC News, on the dark web. In them, they defended their practice of hacking organizations and holding their computers for ransom. They appear prompted by the news, reported joining by Reuters, that the FBI had successfully hacked and taken down another major ransomware group called REvil.null While thatContinue reading “Ransomware hackers nervous, allege harassment from U.S.”

Bitcoin is a virtual currency or a digital currency – this is a type of money that is completely virtual. It’s like an online version of cash. You can use it to buy products and services, but not many shops accept Bitcoin yet and some countries have banned it altogether. However, some companies are beginningContinue reading “Bitcoin”

A group of hackers that security researchers call LightBasin has been compromising mobile telecommunication systems across the world for the past five years. Since 2019, the group hacked into more than a dozen telecommunication companies and maintained persistence through custom malware, to steal data that would serve intelligence organizations. In a report today, CrowdStrike cybersecurityContinue reading “LightBasin hacking group breaches 13 global telecoms in two years”

The University of Sunderland in the UK has announced extensive operational issues that have taken most of its IT systems down, attributing the problem to a cyber-attack.  The first signs of disruption for the university’s IT systems appeared in Tuesday morning, but remain widely impactful and unresolved.  The attack appears to have taken down all telephone lines,Continue reading “University of Sunderland announces outage following cyberattack”