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Security news items published 2009–2025, preserved unchanged.
- The Avalanche malware deployment platform taken downhistorical
Autumn 2016 didn’t end well for the international organized cybercrime. The U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, Europol, Eurojust and Ukraine’s Department of Cyber Police, in coll…
- San Francisco MUNI hacker hackedhistorical
Most ransomware deployers manage to stay unidentified because they exercise good OPSEC backed by The Onion Router and Bitcoin. The case of the cybercrook who compromised the comput…
- San Francisco MUNI hacked with ransomwarehistorical
The IT infrastructure of the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency (SFMTA), also referred to as Muni, has been suffering a deep ransomware impact since last weekend. The perpetrat…
- CrySiS ransomware decryptor: decrypt .xtbl and .crysis fileshistorical
Ransomware operators appear to be realizing the risk of being exposed and prosecuted. This pressure is being heated up by the fairly successful activity of Chainalysis, a relativel…
- Decrypt .shit files virus – Shit ransomware removalhistorical
Locky ransomware devs appear to have been really busy rolling out updates to their nefarious extortion product lately. Less than a month after the emergence of the previous “Odin” …
- Thermostat ransomware exposes gaping holes in IoT securityhistorical
Malware-stricken home appliances aren’t that much of a science fiction these days. Two ethical hackers took the floor at the Def Con 24 security event last week to demonstrate a pr…
- TeslaCrypt releases Master Decryption Keyhistorical
TeslaCrypt, one of the most potent ransomware stains operating since early 2015, has gone extinct. That’s certainly some good news for those who fell victim to it and the thousands…
- The Pirate Bay malvertising ransomwarehistorical
Threat actors running the ill-famed Cerber ransomware campaign have recently come up with a new way to distribute their malicious code. The attack vector involves an obfuscated ad …
- Medstar hospital under ransomware attackhistorical
Healthcare providers are being increasingly targeted by cybercriminals. A series of recent attacks against U.S. hospitals have shown just how vulnerable these types of organization…
- WhatsApp update message virus in Android phoneshistorical
Mobile content providers stick with a business model where people sign up for their services and get subsequently charged for this on a weekly or monthly basis. Such a modus operan…