Jan 10, 2017 | Data Breaches
Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC) has paid a public record of $28,000 in Bitcoin to extortionists after ransomware encrypted hundreds of thousands of files held on its servers. In a public statement shared on the College’s homepage, LAVC said the unnamed ransomware...
Jan 10, 2017 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
MongoDB is a powerful, flexible and scalable general-purpose database. It is an agile database that allows schemas to change quickly as applications evolve. It is a NoSql Database. It is being held ransom by a MongoDB Ransomware, and the number of compromised database...
Jan 10, 2017 | Data Breaches
A year ago it was announced that 3.3 million database of Hello Kitty fans got exposed. Just over a year later, that status changes to exposed, stolen and published online. This has become a full-on ‘Hello Kitty Breach’. Back in December 2015, Sanrio – the...
Jan 7, 2017 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
An Energy Department report seeks new powers to deal with attacks and other emergencies. The reports that Russian computer attackers had hacked a Vermont electrical utility company have turned out to be baseless, but the nation’s grid is in “imminent...
Jan 6, 2017 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
KillDisk is a destructive malware that gained notoriety as a component of successful attacks performed by the BlackEnergy group against the Ukrainian power grid in December 2015 and for attacks against one of the country’s main news agencies in November 2015. KillDisk...
Dec 30, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, CyberSecurity
I was recently asked why it seems the Russians Cyber-Intelligence agencies seemingly have the jump on the US in the Cyber Espionage Departments. This is a pretty serious question – but before we answer that, we really we need to ask – do they? First off...
