US-based Cyber Security company BitSight have recently released a report about a botnet which is increasing its capability by over 50,000 newly infected devices every day. MyloBot has compromised thou...
The LockBit criminal gang has continued with its ransomware efforts with an attack on the water utility company of Portugal’s second-largest city – Porto. Águas e Energia do Porto said on Februa...
At the beginning of October last year, a number of websites under the control of the German government, including those of the office of the German Chancellor – Olaf Scholz, the German military,...
At the beginning of February, an encrypted messaging service that had been under investigation since 2019 was been shut down after a sweeping series of raids across Europe. In a search of 79 propertie...
On Monday the 13th February, web infrastructure company Cloudflare disclosed that it had stopped a record-breaking DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attack that peaked at over 71 million requests p...
If you’ve been following my blogs, you may have noticed that in a few of them, I mention that a particular threat actor, or malware is capable of RCE, and that it’s a hackers wet dream to ...
Do you have a GoDaddy hosted site? Has the site been acting strangely recently? Well, do I have a story for you…. GoDaddy webhosting breach GoDaddy, the Internet’s largest web host, headqu...
First seen in 2016, the mirai botnet has become one of the most notorious botnets the Internet has ever seen. And now it’s back with 13 new vulnerabilities to target! A bit of history Named afte...
Security researchers at Vedere Labs (part of Forescout Technologies) have recently released details of 56 different vulnerabilities across 10 OT (Operational Technology) companies devices in a securit...
In this blog, I take a look at the complex web which surrounds one of Russia’s most prolific hacking groups – Evil Corp, and the enormous malware campaigns they have been responsible for. ...