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A new bad actor called Tortilla is running the campaign, and most affected users are in the U.S. Cisco Talos recently discovered a malicious campaign deploying variants of the Babuk ransomware via an unusual infection chain technique. Image: Cicso Talos Cisco Talos has a warning out for U.S. companies about a new variant of the Babuk ransomware. The security researchers discovered the campaign in mid-October and think that the variant has been active since July…

The United States House of Representatives has passed two bills to strengthen the cybersecurity of small businesses.  The Small Business Development Center Cyber Training Act of 2021 attracted strong support among House members of all political persuasions and was passed on Tuesday with a vote of 409 in favor to 14 against.  Representative Andrew Garbarino, who is both a member of the Small Business Committee and a ranking member of the Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on…

These four sample policies can help you protect your data by ensuring it’s properly encrypted, stored safely, only accessible by certain people, and securely backed up. Image: Andriy Onufriyenko / Getty Images It’s been said we’ve gone beyond the information age and into the experience age, imagination age, fourth industrial revolution or one of a dozen other names for our current technological era. It doesn’t matter what we call it, the underpinning of it all…

Researchers devised a new attack method called ‘Trojan Source’ that allows hide vulnerabilities into the source code of a software project. Trojan Source is a new attack technique demonstrated by a group of Cambridge researchers that can allow threat actors to hide vulnerabilities in the source code of a software project. The technique could be exploited to inject stealth malware without impacting the semantics of the source code while changing its logic. “We present a…

Operators of the ransomware-as-a-service group are claiming that the project is closed and that their entire infrastructure will be turned off. Image: jijomathaidesigners/Shutterstock The BlackMatter ransomware group is reportedly closing up shop due to pressure from law enforcement officials. A Wednesday Twitter post from malware researcher VX-Underground broke the news with a screenshot of a statement apparently from BlackMatter operators. Roughly translated from Russian into English, the statement reads as follows: “Due to certain unsolvable…

Cybersecurity researchers uncovered a huge botnet, tracked as Pink, that already infected over 1.6 million devices most of them located in China. Qihoo 360’s Netlab Cybersecurity researchers discovered a huge botnet, tracked as Pink, that already infected over 1.6 million devices. The botnet was created to launch DDoS attacks and to insert advertisements in the legitimate HTTP traffic of the victims, most of which are in China (96%). According to the experts, Pink is the…

MITMA’s stands for Man in The Middle Attacks, and is the term used to describe one the oldest but still exceptionally popular forms of attack. In this attack, a hacker intercepts an unsecure wireless connection, and places themselves between two computers/devices that are in communication with one another. Once the hacker is on the network, the attacker then impersonates both sides to steal information and sensitive data, to hijack emails, SSL hijack, eavesdrop into conversations….