Another zero-day vulnerability in SolarWinds Serv-U product exploited by cyber criminals

Over 1,000 businesses from around the world have reportedly been impacted in a supply-chain attack where hackers exploited a vulnerability in a remote computer management tool called Kaseya VSA to deploy the REvil ransomware. Kaseya shut down its cloud-based service and urged all users with on-premises deployments, which includes many managed services providers (MSPs), to…

Account Takeover Fraud , Card Not Present Fraud , Cybercrime Cybercriminals Using Web Shells to Control Retailers’ Servers Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • April 9, 2021     Visa’s Payment Fraud Disruption team reports that cybercriminals are increasingly using web shells to establish command and control over retailers’ servers during payment card skimming attacks. See Also:…

image copyright Getty Images. About sharing The world’s largest meat processing company has paid the equivalent of $11m (£7.8m) in ransom to put an end to a major cyber-attack. In a ransomware attack, hackers get into a computer network and threaten to cause disruption or delete files unless a ransom in cryptocurrency is paid.

The two-count indictment, which was returned in May and kept under seal until now, charges Ding Xiaoyang, Cheng Qingmin, and Zhu Yunmin were officers with the Hainan State Security Department, a provincial branch of China’s Ministry of State Security, or MSS. A fourth charged individual, Wu Shurong, was charged as a computer hacker who created…

The cybersecurity team of zLabs Zimperium has recently detected several applications that have stolen the passwords of thousands of Facebook users.  Not only this, but the Zlab security researchers have also checked this attack, and they claimed that the malware used in this attack was dubbed as “FlyTrap.” According to the report, FlyTrap has been…

You might notice there’s no question mark at the end of the title. That is intentional. In a May 18, 2021 Opinion article in The New York Times by Dr. Sema K. Sgaier, with the title: “Meet Four Kinds of People Holding Us Back from Full Vaccination,” which is available at Opinion | Meet the…