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A relatively new ransomware operation known as Nevada seems to grow its capabilities quickly as security researchers noticed improved functionality for the locker targeting Windows and VMware ESXi systems.

A new DDoS-as-a-Service (DDoSaaS) platform named Passion was seen used in recent attacks by pro-Russian hacktivists against medical institutions in the United States and Europe.

The development team behind the open-source password management software KeePass is disputing what is described as a newly found vulnerability that allows attackers to stealthily export the entire database in plain text.

Microsoft revealed today that its security teams are tracking more than 100 threat actors deploying ransomware during attacks.

A new category of activity tracking applications has been having massive success recently on Google Play, Androids official app store, having been downloaded on over 20 million devices.

A U.S. No Fly list with over 1.5 million records of banned flyers and upwards of 250,000 selectees has been shared publicly on a hacking forum. BleepingComputer has confirmed, the list is the same TSA No Fly list that was discovered recently on an unsecured CommuteAir server.

Microsoft urged customers today to keep their on-premises Exchange servers patched by applying the latest supported Cumulative Update (CU) to have them always ready to deploy an emergency security update.

The Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) found a cocktail of five different data-wiping malware strains deployed on the network of the countrys national news agency (Ukrinform) on January 17th.

The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a warning of Russian and Iranian state-sponsored hackers increasingly targeting organizations and individuals.

A new ransomware family named Mimic has been spotted in the wild abusing the APIs of a legitimate Windows file search tool called Everything to achieve file enumeration.