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FBI warns of imposter ads in search results

05

Jan

2023

The FBI has issued a public notice which includes advice to block adverts. Why? Let’s take a look. The bogus advert tightrope It’s no secret that rogue ads have been a particular plague on the Internet for as far back as we can remember. From irritating pop ups and spinning “You’ve won a prize” banners […]

Category Cyber-crime Malware Phishing Written by Malwarebytes 0 Comments

LockBit apologizes for ransomware attack on hospital, offers decryptor

03

Jan

2023

LockBit, a prominent ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, has apologized for an attack on the Toronto-based Hospital for Sick Children, also known as SickKids, and offered a free decryptor. SickKids, a major pediatric teaching hospital, announced on December 19 that it had called a Code Grey system failure, as it was responding to a cybersecurity incident that […]

Category Cyber-crime Malware Written by Csoonline 0 Comments

APT Hackers Turn to Malicious Excel Add-ins as Initial Intrusion Vector

28

Dec

2022

Microsoft’s decision to block Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default for Office files downloaded from the internet has led many threat actors to improvise their attack chains in recent months. Now according to Cisco Talos, advanced persistent threat (APT) actors and commodity malware families alike are increasingly using Excel add-in (.XLL) files as […]

Category Cyber-crime Malware Written by Thehackernews 0 Comments

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LockBit apologizes for ransomware attack on hospital, offers decryptor

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