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Stay safe online - 2022-05-23

Elon Musk’s deep fake videos used to promote new cryptocurrency scam
Elon Musk used in scams with cryptocurrency: BitVex trading platform scam.
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News Spam and phishing
2022-05-23

Hackers made fake Windows 11 download domains to deliver Vidar malware
Fake domains offer Windows 11 installers and deploy info-stealing malware instead.
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News Viruses and parasites
2022-05-20

VMware authentication bypass flaws in various products get patched
Customers are warned to immediately patch the critical vulnerabilities with critical severity scores.
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News Web browsers and vulnerabilities
2022-05-19

North Korean hackers pose as experienced IT freelancers to land employment
FBI warns about skilled software and mobile app developers from North Korea posing as "non-DPRK nationals" and freelancers.
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News Spam and phishing
2022-05-18

US Justice Department charges a doctor for selling Thanos ransomware
US DoJ links Thanos ransomware and Jigsaw ransomware development to the cardiologist from Venezuela.
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News Viruses and parasites
2022-05-17

Eternity Project malware-as-a-service uses Telegram to spread around
Researchers warn about the Eternity malware that is being sold and offers stealer, miner, ransomware tools.
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News Viruses and parasites
2022-05-16

Iranian hackers linked to the file-encrypting malware attacks
Iranian APT Cobalt Mirage launching ransomware attacks and targeting US organizations.
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News Viruses and parasites
2022-05-13

London hacker charged for stealing $5 million from brokerage accounts
Hacker caused financial losses for the cybercrime that took place between 2011 and 2018.
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Nerbian RAT targetting entities in Europe leverages COVID-19 messaging
Malware uses sophisticated evasion methods to target entities in the UK, Spain, and Italy.
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News Viruses and parasites
2022-05-11

Hackers took down the RuTube site and hijacked Russian TV broadcast
Russian TV and online platforms were hacked to display an antiwar message on Victory Day.
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2022-05-10

Costa Rica had to declare a national emergency due to Conti attack
Cyber attacks by Conti ransomware on multiple government institutions forced the country to declare a national emergency.
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2022-05-09

Raspberry Robin worm samples use Windows Installer to drop malware
New Windows malware with worm functions spreads using external USB drives.
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News Viruses and parasites
2022-05-06

Heroku confirms the customer database hack and forced password resets
GitHub OAuth token theft results in Heroku customer database hack.
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Multiple ransomware variants now linked to North Korean hackers
Ransomware strains have been now linked to the APT38 hacker group known for financial focus.
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AvosLocker ransomware manages to avoid detection and disable AV tools
The version of the ransomware abuses the driver file to evade AV detection and checks for Log4Shell.
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News Viruses and parasites
2022-05-03