[update]Two year old vulnerability used in ransomware attack against VMware ESXi

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Categories: News

Categories: Ransomware

Tags: VMware

Tags: ESXi

Tags: Nevada

Tags: ransomware

Tags: Linux

Tags: CVE-2021-21974

Over the weekend, several CERTs warned about ongoing ransomware attacks against unpatched VMware ESXi virtual machines.

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Solving one of NOBELIUM’s most novel attacks: Cyberattack Series

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2023 17:00:00 +0000

This is the first in an ongoing series exploring some of the most notable cases of the Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART), which investigates cyberattacks on behalf of our customers. The Cyberattack Series takes you behind the scenes for an inside look at the investigation and share lessons that you can apply to better protect your own organization. In this story, we’ll explore how NOBELIUM continues to target identity providers with novel attacks—and how Microsoft DART identified one of NOBELIUM‘s most creative exploits yet.​

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Earth Zhulong: Familiar Patterns Target Vietnam

Credit to Author: Ted Lee| Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In 2022, we discovered Earth Zhulong, a hacking group that has been targeting Vietnam’s telecom, technology, and media sectors similar to another well-known threat actor. In this article, we unravel their new tactics, techniques and procedures that they apply on their misdeeds.

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Introducing Malwarebytes Mobile Security for Business: How to find malware and stop phishing attacks on smartphones and ChromeOS

Categories: Business

See how our new offering Malwarebytes Security for Business helps you crush mobile malware and phishing attacks.

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Florida hospital takes entire IT systems offline after ‘ransomware attack’

Categories: News

Categories: Ransomware

Tags: Tallahassee Memorial

Tags: TMH

Tags: Mark O’Bryant

Tags: Max Henderson

Tags: Atlantic General Hospital

Tags: ransomware

Tags: healthcare ransomware attack

Tallahassee Memorial in Florida has reportedly been hit by a ransomware attack.

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On the 20th Safer Internet Day, what was security like back in 2004?

Categories: News

Tags: safer internet day

Tags: SID

Tags: 2004

Tags: 2005

Tags: 20th anniversary

Tags: security

Tags: windows

Tags: XP

Tags: XPSP2

Tags: 20 minutes

Come with us on a journey down memory lane.

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KrebsOnSecurity in Upcoming Hulu Series on Ashley Madison Breach

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2023 22:16:16 +0000

KrebsOnSecurity will likely have a decent amount of screen time in an upcoming Hulu documentary series about the 2015 megabreach at marital infidelity site Ashley Madison. While I can’t predict what the producers will do with the video interviews we shot, it’s fair to say the series will explore tantalizing new clues as to who may have been responsible for the attack.

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