Ransomware

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) & Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency identify a global DNS infrastructure hijacking campaign.

A new malware strain can uninstall some security products from infected Linux cloud servers, researchers from Palo Alto Network’s Unit 42 said.

Nearly 773 million unique email addresses & 22 million passwords were exposed during the Collection #1 data breach, security researcher Troy Hunt says.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) files fraud charges against Russian, Ukrainian and U.S. individuals -- alleging they made more than $4.1 million by cyber stealing financial information from the agency’s database.

An open source toolkit dubbed Modlishka (Polish for mantis, a predatory insect) can be configured to launch phishing attacks capable of bypassing two-factor authentication (2FA).

Iranian hackers may be behind a surge of domain name system (DNS) hijacks that targeted government, telecommunications & internet infrastructure domains, FireEye reports.

Hacker cyberattacks target Quasar open-source remote administration tool (RAT) users -- including MSPs (managed services providers), US-CERT reports.

Marriott's massive Starwood Hotels data breach spanned 5.25 million unencrypted passport records along with 20.3 million encrypted passport credentials.