Lockbit ransomware gang hit the Portuguese municipal water utility Aguas do Porto

The LockBit ransomware gang claims to have hacked Aguas do Porto, a Portuguese municipal water utility company. The LockBit ransomware gang claims to have hacked Aguas do Porto, a Portuguese municipal water utility company, and is threatening to leak the stolen data. Aguas do Porto is a municipal water utility company that manages the full […]

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February 20, 2023
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Hackers disclose Atlassian data after the theft of an employee’s credentials

Atlassian discloses a data leak that was caused by the theft of employee credentials which was used to steal data from a third-party vendor. A group of hackers called SiegedSec recently published on its Telegram channel a JSON file containing data belonging to thousands of Atlassian employees and floor plans for two of the company’s […]

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February 19, 2023
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GoDaddy discloses a new data breach

GoDaddy discloses a security breach, threat actors have stolen source code and installed malware on its servers in a long-runing attack. Web hosting company GoDaddy announced that attackers have stolen source code and installed malware on its servers. The threat actors have breached its cPanel shared hosting environment, the company states that it is not […]

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February 18, 2023
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German airport websites hit by DDos attacks once again

Experts are investigating the failures of several German airports after some media attributed them to a possible hacking campaign. On Thursday, the websites of several German airports were unreachable, experts launched an investigation speculating a possible cyberattack on a large scale against the critical infrastructure. Ralph Beisel. chief executive of the ADV airport association, confirmed […]

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February 17, 2023
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Mirai V3G4 botnet exploits 13 flaws to target IoT devices

During the second half of 2022, a variant of the Mirai bot, tracked as V3G4, targeted IoT devices by exploiting tens of flaws. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers reported that a Mirai variant called V3G4 was attempting to exploit several flaws to infect IoT devices from July to December 2022.  Below is the list […]

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February 17, 2023
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SAS Airlines Hit by Cyber Attack

By Deeba Ahmed
The cyber attack took place on Tuesday, February 14th evening, which forced the SAS Airlines’ website and app to go offline and be inaccessible to passengers.
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February 17, 2023
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Over 500 ESXiArgs Ransomware infections in one day, but they dropped the day after

ESXiArgs ransomware continues to spread in Europe, most of the recent infections were observed in France, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, and Ukraine Researchers from Censys reported that more than 500 hosts have been infected in a new wave of ESXiArgs ransomware attacks, most of which are in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.K.. […]

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February 16, 2023
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New MortalKombat ransomware employed in financially motivated campaign

Talos researchers observed a financially motivated threat actor using a new ransomware dubbed MortalKombat and a clipper malware named Laplas. Since December 2022, Cisco Talos researchers have been observing an unidentified financially motivated threat actor deploying two new malware, the recently discovered MortalKombat ransomware and a GO variant of the Laplas Clipper malware. The threat actor […]

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February 16, 2023
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City of Oakland issued a local state of emergency after recent ransomware attack

The City of Oakland has declared a local state of emergency due to the effect of the ransomware attack that hit the city on February 8, 2023. The City of Oakland disclosed last week a ransomware attack, the security breach began on February 8, 2023. In an abundance of caution, the City of Oakland has […]

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February 15, 2023
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