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Ryuk ransom note (Source: Coveware, Malwarebytes) Prolific Ryuk ransomware has a new trick up its sleeve. The developers behind the notorious strain of crypto-locking malware have given their attack code the ability to spread itself between systems inside an infected network. "A Ryuk sample with worm-like capabilities - allowing it to spread automatically within networks it infects - was discovered during an incident response handled by ANSSI in early 2021," according to a Ryuk report issued Thursday by CERT-FR, the French government's computer emergency readiness team that's part of the Nati...

Alert from CERT-FR, which is the French government's computer emergency readiness team French cybersecurity authorities are warning that widely used, open-source IT monitoring software called Centreon appears to have been targeted by Russian hackers. But unlike the SolarWinds supply chain attack, in this campaign, attackers appear to have hacked outdated, unpatched versions of the software. The Centreon open-source IT network monitoring tool is developed by the Paris-based company of the same name. The National Cybersecurity Agency of France, known as ANSSI, says that the campaign has resulte...