A joint security alert published by FBI and NSA has just been released with information on a new strain of Linux malware. The two agencies claim that the malware has been created and distributed by Russian military hackers and has been used in real-time attacks. According to the information in the joint alert, the malware which is known under the
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Cruise line ransomware A ransomware has struck the largest cruise ship company in the world. It is suspected that customer records have also been compromised during the attack. Carnival Corporation is an operator of over 100 cruise ships that operate under reknown brands such as Carnival Cruise, Princess Cruises, Costa Cruises and others. This week, the company informed the Securities
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A global disruption of Gmail and many G Suite services was reported by users all around the globe on Thursday, around 2:00pm AEST. The outage of Google’s services affected millions of users worldwide. According to people’s reports, issues with sending and receiving emails through Gmail were detected from about 2:00pm AEST. Google Drive has also been affected with people unable
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FritzFrog Botnet 500 government and business SSH servers have been targeted by the newly-discovered FritzFrog P2P botnet from the beginning of 2020. The cybersecurity firm Guardicore has recently published a research report on a new peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet, named FritzFrog, that has been observed since January this year by the company’s sensors. FritzFrog has tried to brute-force SSH servers on government, financial,
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