eCh0raix Ransomware Variant Targets QNAP, Synology NAS Devices
eCh0raix Ransomware Variant Targets QNAP, Synology NAS Devices
Hardware maker has issued an update to fix multiple critical privilege escalation vulnerabilities that have gone undetected since 2009. Hundreds of millions of Dell laptops, notebooks, and tablets are at risk of compromise from a set of five high-severity flaws that have been undetected since at least 2009. The flaws allow an attacker who already has…
A firm specialising in transferring cryptocurrency said Thursday that a hacker they are calling “Mr White Hat” was giving back all $613 million in digital loot from a record haul. Poly Network had put out word previously that nearly half of the digital assets swiped early this week had been returned. “As our communication with…
Softpedia News / Security 14. June 2021 This article has been indexed from Softpedia News / Security According to the head of cybersecurity at GCHQ, ransomware is the biggest cybersecurity threat to most people and organizations in the UK, says The Guardian. Lindy Cameron, CEO of National Cyber Security Center, points out that the…
A newly published report form the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) describes the risks of cyber-attacks on the electricity grid’s distribution systems, along with the scale of the potential impact of such attacks. Following a performance audit conducted between September 2019 and March 2021, GAO has discovered that the electricity grid’s distribution systems are increasingly…
Owners of Gigaset Android phones have been repeatedly infected with malware since the end of March after threat actors compromised the vendor’s update server in a supply-chain attack. Gigaset is a German manufacturer of telecommunications devices, including a series of smartphones running the Android operating system. Starting around March 27th, users suddenly found their Gigaset…
JERUSALEM: Arch-foes Israel and Iran have long fought an undeclared shadow war across the Middle East, landing blows in Lebanon, Syria and inside the Islamic republic itself. More recently, the battle has moved to the high seas, with a series of mysterious attacks and sabotage incidents mainly in the Red and Arabian Seas. Advertisement Advertisement…