In the last two weeks, Florida has paid more than $1.1 million in bitcoin to cybercriminals to recover encrypted files from two separate ransomware attacks—one against Riviera Beach and the other against Lake City.Lake City, a city in northern Florida, agreed on Monday to pay hackers 42 Bitcoin (equivalent to $573,300 at the current value) to unlock phone and email systems … [Read more...] about Two Florida Cities Paid $1.1 Million to Ransomware Hackers This Month
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New Brute-Force Botnet Targeting Over 1.5 Million RDP Servers Worldwide
Security researchers have discovered an ongoing sophisticated botnet campaign that is currently brute-forcing more than 1.5 million publicly accessible Windows RDP servers on the Internet.Dubbed GoldBrute, the botnet scheme has been designed in a way to escalate gradually by adding every new cracked system to its network, forcing them to further find new available RDP servers … [Read more...] about New Brute-Force Botnet Targeting Over 1.5 Million RDP Servers Worldwide
Nearly 1 Million Computers Still Vulnerable to “Wormable” BlueKeep RDP Flaw
Nearly 1 million Windows systems are still unpatched and have been found vulnerable to a recently disclosed critical, wormable, remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)—two weeks after Microsoft releases the security patch.If exploited, the vulnerability could allow an attacker to easily cause havoc around the world, potentially much … [Read more...] about Nearly 1 Million Computers Still Vulnerable to “Wormable” BlueKeep RDP Flaw
U.S. Charges 9 ‘SIM Swapping’ Attackers For Stealing $2.5 Million
The U.S. Department of Justice today announced charges against nine individuals, 6 of which are members of a hacking group called "The Community" and other 3 are former employees of mobile phone providers who allegedly helped them steal roughly $2.5 million worth of the cryptocurrency using a method known as "SIM Swapping."According to the 15-count indictment unsealed today, … [Read more...] about U.S. Charges 9 ‘SIM Swapping’ Attackers For Stealing $2.5 Million
Unprotected Database Exposes Personal Info of 80 Million American Households
A team of security researchers has claims to have found a publicly-accessible database that exposes information on more than 80 million U.S. households—nearly 65 percent of the total number of American households.Discovered by VPNMentor's research team lead by hacktivists Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, the unsecured database includes 24GB of extremely detailed information about … [Read more...] about Unprotected Database Exposes Personal Info of 80 Million American Households