Municipalities took a beating this week with at least four reporting being shut down from new ransomware attacks or struggling to recover from an older incident. Augusta, Maine; Imperial County, Calif.; Stuart, Fla.; and Greenville, N.C. were all in different stages of recovering from ransomware attacks over the last seven days. Augusta City Center operations were shuttered after being hit ...

The CryptoMix ransomware is still alive and kicking as a new variant has been spotted being spread in the wild. This new version appends the .DLL extension to encrypted files and is said to be installed through hacked remote desktop services. This variant was first reported in a topic in our forums where a victim stated that they were infected by the attackers hacking ...

The flaw could enable an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access the devices, Cisco said. Cisco has rushed out patches for a critical vulnerability in its ASR 9000 routers that could give remote, unauthenticated attackers access to the devices – as well as the power to launch denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against them. The flaw is specifically in Cisco Aggregation Services Routers ...

HawkEye Reborn v9 is currently marketed as an ‘Advance Monitoring Solution’ and is currently being sold using a licensing model. HawkEye Reborn v9 also includes a ‘Terms of Service agreement’ which forbids buyers from using the software on systems without permission and from scanning its executables using antivirus software. A new variant of Hawkeye dubbed ‘Reborn v9’ has emerged. HawkEye ...

In the last week, the hacker group who goes by the name of ‘PokemonGo Team’ had uploaded the personal information of several Federal agents. The hackers could have exploited a flaw in the third-party software used by the websites associated with the FBINAA in order to steal the data. The hacker group, who previously had exposed the personal information FBI ...

The unprotected database exposed the personal information of almost 100 million users who accessed the service via its website, mobile app, or by calling its customer care number. The exposed data includes JustDial users’ names, email addresses, mobile numbers, location addresses, genders, dates of birth, photos, designations, company names, and more. What is the issue – A security researcher uncovered a ...

Attackers compromised Microsoft support agent’s credentials and gained access to view ‘limited’ number of users’ email account information. Upon learning about the incident, Microsoft immediately disabled the compromised support agent’s credentials. What is the issue – Microsoft notified its users via email that a certain ‘limited’ number of users who use web email services managed by Microsoft might have had their ...

RobinHood renames the encrypted files something similar to Encrypted_b0a6c73e3e434b63.enc_robinhood. The ransomware drops 4 ransom note with different names at the same time. A new ransomware named RobinHood has been found targeting computers within an entire network. The operators of the ransomware are so particular about victims’ privacy that they delete the encryption keys and IP addresses after the payment is ...

Plus, Minnesota and North Carolina cities hit by hackers As April hits its stride, we saw a week of Wi-Fi bugs, Assange’s public eviction and King’s College warnings. These things also happened. Need another reason to quit using Internet Explorer? How about this XXE zero-day? Microsoft has all but killed off Internet Explorer, but more than a few PC owners continue to hold out. ...

More than 50 universities in the United Kingdom had their cyber-defenses tested by ethical hackers, and the ‘grades’ aren’t pretty A team of ethical hackers recently conducted tests on the cybersecurity defenses of more than 50 universities in the United Kingdom. In each case, it took them less than two hours to gain access to “high-value data”. This is according to ...