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The Long Run of Shade Ransomware

Security Affairs

Since the beginning of the year, security firms observed a new intense ransomware campaign spreading the Shade ransomware. Between January and February, a new, intense, ransomware campaign has been observed by many security firms. Trend of malicious JavaScript downloading Shade ransomware (source: ESET).

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 228

Security Affairs

At least 23 Texas local governments targeted by coordinated ransomware attacks. A backdoor mechanism found in tens of Ruby libraries. million to allow towns to access encrypted data. Employees abused systems at Ukrainian nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency. Once again thank you! Texas attackers demand $2.5

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. that the crooks were only able to mine a paltry $24 – which Coinhive refused to pay out anyway. Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

Kent: it's a little bit of a borrowed term right inside of software there are API's that you call, you know, in the libraries and stuff to move things around, and we've moved it out into the application space as kind of a way to go get data, a way to communicate between two systems. Kent: I started calling friends of mine. He told me.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

Kent: it's a little bit of a borrowed term right inside of software there are API's that you call, you know, in the libraries and stuff to move things around, and we've moved it out into the application space as kind of a way to go get data, a way to communicate between two systems. Kent: I started calling friends of mine. He told me.

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EP 49: LoL

ForAllSecure

Kyle Hanslovan CEO of Huntress Labs joins The Hacker Mind to discuss recent LoL attacks, specifically the Microsoft Follina attack and the Kaseya ransomware attack, and how important it is for small and medium sized businesses to start using enterprise grade security, given the evolving nature of these attacks. I'm Robert Vamosi.