GPU giant Nvidia is investigating a potential cyberattack
US chipmaker giant Nvidia confirmed today it's currently investigating an "incident" that reportedly took down some of its systems for two days. Systems impacted in what looks like a cyberattack include the company's developer tools and email systems, as first reported by The Telegraph. The reported outage is the result of a network intrusion, and it is still not known if any business or customer data was stolen during the incident. READ MORE...
Ukraine recruits "IT Army" to hack Russian entities, lists 31 targets
Ukraine is recruiting a volunteer "IT army" of security researchers and hackers to conduct cyberattacks on thirty-one Russian entities, including government agencies, critical infrastructure, and banks. Saturday afternoon, Ukraine's Minister for Digital Transformation Mykhaylo Fedorov announced that they need volunteer "digital talents" for an "IT Army" to conduct operational tasks against Russia on the cyber frontline. READ MORE...
Ukrainian military personnel targeted with phishing attacks
CERT-UA, the national Computer Emergency Response Team for Ukraine, has issued a warning of a major phishing campaign launched against military personnel. In a Facebook post, CERT-UA advised that it had seen an attack launched against the personal email accounts of military staff and related individuals. According to the warning, the phishing campaigns have targeted free email accounts hosted at the i.ua and meta.ua internet portals, both popular in Ukraine. READ MORE...
Conti ransomware group announces support of Russia, threatens retaliatory attacks
An infamous ransomware group with potential ties to Russian intelligence and known for attacking health care providers and hundreds of other targets posted a warning Friday saying it was "officially announcing a full support of Russian government." The gang said that it would use "all possible resources to strike back at the critical infrastructures" of any entity that organizes a cyberattack "or any war activities against Russia." READ MORE...
TrickBot takes down server infrastructure after months of inactivity
The king of tricks is dead. Long live the new king. Or will it make a comeback? While we already assumed TrickBot was dead in the water, the shutdown of the server infrastructure on February 24, 2022, did not go unnoticed. Is this really the end of one of the most active botnets in the last decade? The rise of TrickBot started when it was a banking Trojan designed to steal personal financial data. READ MORE...
Microsoft Exchange Bugs Exploited by 'Cuba' Ransomware Gang
The ransomware gang known as "Cuba" is increasingly shifting to exploiting Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities - including ProxyShell and ProxyLogon - as initial infection vectors, researchers have found. The group has likely been prying open these chinks in victims' armor as early as last August, Mandiant reported on Wednesday. Mandiant, which tracks the threat actor as UNC2596, noted that the group deploys the COLDDRAW ransomware. READ MORE...
Beware of charity scams exploiting war in Ukraine
Times of crisis may bring out the best in you, but they also have a way of bringing out the worst in scammers. They, too, follow the headlines and will go into overdrive in their attempts to part people from their money. We've seen this time and again during the COVID-19 pandemic, and just a few days into it the war in Ukraine is no different. If the crisis has you worried and you're looking to support humanitarian work on the ground through a donation, make sure your money goes to the right cause. READ MORE...
Attacks From Within Seen as a Growing Threat to Elections
Election officials preparing for this year's midterms have yet another security concern to add to an already long list that includes death threats, disinformation, ransomware and cyberattacks - threats from within. In a handful of states, authorities are investigating whether local officials directed or aided in suspected security breaches at their own election offices. READ MORE...
- ...in 1901, Nobel Prize-winning chemist and peace activist Linus Pauling is born in Portland, OR.
- ...in 1935, DuPont chemist Wallace Hume Carothers invents nylon, the first fully synthetic fiber.
- ...in 1983, the final episode of "M*A*S*H" airs on CBS, drawing over 120 million viewers, the largest audience of any TV series finale.
- ...in 2013, Pope Benedict XVI resigns as pope of the Catholic Church, becoming the first to do so since Pope Gregory XII in 1415.
