Category Archives: Market News

Organizations worldwide – including Travelex – have been sent letters threatening to launch DDoS attacks on their network unless a $230K ransom is paid.

BEC fraudsters now have bases of operation across at least 39 counties and are responsible for $26 billion in losses annually — and growing.

The CVE-2020-5135 stack-based buffer overflow security vulnerability is trivial to exploit, without logging in.

The Iranian hacker group is targeting universities in 12 countries.

The Clop ransomware has become a tool of choice for the financially motivated group.

Intel’s addition of memory encryption to its upcoming 3rd generation Xeon Scalable processors matches AMD’s Secure Memory Encryption (SME) feature.

Intel and Google are urging users to update the Linux kernel to version 5.9 or later.

Databases of sensitive, financial and personally identifiable info and documents from Intcomex were leaked on Russian-language hacker forum after a ransomware attack.

There were 11 critical bugs and six that were unpatched but publicly known in this month’s regularly scheduled Microsoft updates.

Researchers warn of a spike in the cryptocurrency-mining botnet since August 2020.