Universal Health Services(UHS), the American hospital and healthcare services company, reported that the Ryuk ransomware attack had cost them $67 million in total ransom revenue. The UHS is a Fortune 500 company, based in Pennsylvania, America that reportedly employs more…
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Mumbai Power Outage – Chinese Hackers Attacked Indian Power Stations
The State Energy Minister of Maharashtra, Mr. Nitin Raut, has verified the suspicions true that a Chinese cyber-attack was perpetuating the Mumbai power outage back in October 2020 as published in a report by the New York Times(NYT). The Mumbai power…
Linux Mint May Enforce Update Installation for Security Fixes
The Linux Mint OS users are recommended by developers to update their system versions to their latest ones for important security measures. Linux Mint earlier published a blog post on their official blog page addressing the importance and necessity of…
Node.js Package Library Patches Severe Command Injection Vulnerability
Popular Node.js package library systeminformation has recently patched a severe command injection vulnerability in the repository that could have left applications jeopardized. Systeminformation is a lightweight collection of functions that retrieves detailed system, hardware, and operating system information from servers…
Recent Ransomware Attack Hits Dutch Funding Organization (NWO)
The Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) was recently subjected to a ransomware attack where hackers published a database of internal records of the organization. After the organization denied compensation with the hackers’ demands for resources, the hackers decided to…
Twitter “Safety Mode” to Release Soon | Twitter Safety Mode Trending
In an Analyst day presentation, Twitter has reported introducing a new feature called the ‘safety mode’ feature and is trending widely. As Twitter is trending and a widely used easily accessible social platform, it is more than often that people…
T-Mobile Data Breach Undermines User Data After Sim Swapping Attack
Mobile telecommunications organization T-mobile has recently reported a data breach incident since an undisclosed number of customers were found to be impacted by SIM swap attacks. SIM swap attacks: A SIM Swapping or SIM hijacking attack is a form of…
Firefox Extension Attack by Chinese Hackers Targeting Tibetans
Alleged reports have registered that a certain Chinese Communist Party-supported Chinese hacker group has been snooping on Tibetan activists by deploying a Firefox malware extension. According to investigations conducted by cybersecurity vendors, a low-degree phishing campaign against the Tibetan dispersal…
Phishing Attacks Defraud 10,000 FedEx and DHS Express Targets
FedEx and DHL Express have recently been subjected to large-scale phishing attacks, with a combined 10,000 victims targeted, in the favor of poaching the victims’ business email account credentials. The threat actors integrated various methods like social engineering, brand impersonation,…
Cisco Recognizes & Resolves Major Authority Bypass Vulnerability in MSO
In an advisory released on Wednesday, Cisco declared that they have addressed a maximum severity bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-1388 having a 10/10CVSS base score. The said vulnerability was found in the API endpoint of the Cisco ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator…