“ViLE” members posed as police officers and extorted victims

Categories: News

Tags: Doxxers

Tags: doxxing

Tags: police

Tags: social media

Tags: extortion

Tags: data breach

Two individuals have been charged with being members of ViLE, a group of doxxers that even impersonated police officers to obtain personal information about their victims.

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A week in security (March 13 – 19)

Categories: News

Tags: Becky Holmes

Tags: Lock and Code S04E06

Tags: ransomware

Tags: WhatsApp

Tags: AI chatbot

Tags: investment fraud

Tags: Clop

Tags: Microsoft zero-day

Tags: Microsoft

Tags: STALKER 2

Tags: Facebook

Tags: Microsoft OneNote

Tags: LockBit

Tags: Rubrik

The most interesting security related news from the week of March 13 to 19.

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Rubrik is latest victim of the Clop ransomware zero-day campaign

Categories: News

Categories: Ransomware

Tags: Rubrik

Tags: GoAnywhere MFT

Tags: Fortra

Tags: Clop ransomware

Tags: Clop

Tags: ransomware

Tags: CVE-2023-0669

Tags: zero-day

Rubrik, a cloud data management company, has revealed that Clop made use of an infamous GoAnywhere flaw.

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LockBit ransomware attacks Essendant

Categories: News

Categories: Ransomware

Tags: lockbit

Tags: ransomware

Tags: essendant

Tags: data

Tags: encrypt

Tags: ransom

Tags: leak

Tags: website

Tags: outage

Tags: network

The LockBit ransomware group has attacked Essendant, a US-based distributor of office products, and is threatening to leak its data.

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Hackers threaten to leak STALKER 2 assets if devs don’t heed demands

Categories: News

Tags: STALKER 2

Tags: GSC World Game World

Tags: hacktivism

Tags: Russian

Tags: hacking

Tags: Vestnik TSS

Tags: video game

The developers of first-person shooter game, STALKER 2, have revealed assets related to the game were stolen and used for blackmail and intimidation.

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Ransomware attack hits ANOTHER school

Categories: News

Categories: Ransomware

Tags: Wymondham College

Tags: ransomware attack

Tags: ransomware

Tags: Vice Society

Tags: National Cyber Security Centre

Tags: NCSC

Wymondham College is operating as normal, with a few expected distruptions that may be minimal but lasting.

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Update now! Microsoft fixes two zero-day bugs

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Categories: News

Tags: patch Tuesday

Tags: March

Tags: 2023

Tags: Microsoft

Tags: Adobe

Tags: Fortinet

Tags: Android

Tags: SAP

Tags: CVE-2023-23397

Tags: CVE-2023-24880

Tags: CVE-2023-26360

Tags: CVE-2022-41328

This Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released fixes for two actively exploited zero-days and Adobe has fixed one.

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Investment fraud overtakes business email compromise as most reported fraud

Categories: News

Categories: Scams

Tags: FBI

Tags: IC3

Tags: 2022

Tags: report

Tags: investment fraud

Tags: crypto-investment fraud

Tags: pig butchering

Tags: hacked socail media

According to the FBI’s annual report, investment fraud overtook business email compromise as the most reported and most damaging type of fraud in 2022.

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Clop ransomware is victimizing GoAnywhere MFT customers

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Categories: News

Categories: Ransomware

Tags: Clop

Tags: ransomware

Tags: GoAnywhere

Tags: CVE-2023-0669

The Clop ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for attacking several GoAnywhere MFT customers by exploiting a vulnerability in the managed file transfer software’s administrative interface.

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