Presumably while singing ‘takedowns from Amsterdam’ By Iain Thomson The takedown of the Hansa dark web marketplace, done live on national TV by Dutch police, was possible because officers had…
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DarkHotel Perfects a New Attack Gambit for Political Targets
By Tara Seals The DarkHotel APT criminals are back, with a novel approach that appears to mark a significant step forward for the group. DarkHotel is famous for infiltrating Wi-Fi networks in…
A free decryption tool is now available for all Bart ransomware versions
Antivirus vendor Bitdefender obtained the Bart decryption keys from the Romanian police. By Lucian Constantin Users who have had their files encrypted by any version of the Bart ransomware program…
Kremlin-linked hackers believed to be behind Mac spyware Xagent
iPhone backups can be slurped for Mother Russia, say researchers. By John Leyden Kremlin-linked spies have been blamed for cooking up malware called Xagent, which targets victims running macOS to…
Printers now the least-secure things on the internet
BitDefender’s senior threat analyst Bogdan Botezatu despairs of IoT security. By Richard Chirgwin The Internet of Things is exactly as bad a security nightmare as pessimists think it is, according…
Boffins flay Linux ransomware for the third time
World’s most determined VXers can’t get a break. Darren Pauli Probably the world’s most tragically determined blackhat developers have had their revitalised Linux.Encoder ransomware pwned again by meddling BitDefender whitehats.…