November 23, 2022 The Donut (D0nut) extortion group has revealed its own ransomware for enterprise double-extortion attacks. To avoid detection, it sends ransom notes that are heavily abstracted, with all strings encoded and the JavaScript decoding the ransom more...
November 23, 2022 DraftKings, a sports betting company, has announced that it would make it up to all customers affected by a credential stuffing attack, which resulted in losses of up to $300,000. The hack happened after the more...
November 22, 2022 Ottawa’s second attempt at overhauling federal legislation regulating how businesses collect and use personal data of Canadians still favours the private-sector, says a leading technology and human rights group. The University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab more...
November 22, 2022 IT security teams are getting a new weapon to detect one of the most popular tools used by threat actors to distribute malware: cracked versions of the Cobalt Strike attack framework. Google has released a more...
November 22, 2022 Daixin Team, a cybercrime group, has made public new data belonging to AirAsia, a Malaysian low-cost airline, on its data leak portal, just over a week after the company was hit by a ransomware attack more...
November 21, 2022 A Montreal-area city was hit by ransomware over the weekend, according to a Quebec news service. La Presse reported this morning that the city of Westmount mayor Christina Smith confirmed the attack. Westmount is a more...
November 21, 2022 Cyber Security Today, Nov. 21, 2022 – More ransomware strains found. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday, November 21st, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. Ransomware creators aren’t being intimidated more...
November 21, 2022 AXLocker, a new ransomware variant is encrypting victims' files and also attempting to steal data by enabling a Discord account takeover (ATO). Before extorting the victim, the ransomware encrypts specific file extensions with AES. However, more...
November 21, 2022 Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence has identified a developing threat activity cluster by DEV-0569 that distributes various payloads, including the recently discovered Royal ransomware, via Google Ads. DEV-0569 conducts malvertising campaigns to disseminate links to a more...
November 18, 2022 Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week in Review edition for the week ending Friday, November 18th, 2022. From Toronto, I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. In a few minutes more...
