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GandCrab ransomware affiliate arrested for phishing attacks By 10:07 AM A suspected GandCrab Ransomware member was arrested in South Korea for using phishing emails to infect victims. The GandCrab ransomware operation started in January 2018 when it quickly became a malware empire threatening businesses worldwide. Operated as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS), the GandCrab developers teamed up with affiliates in a revenue share partnership, with affiliates earning between 70-80% of a ransom payment. The operation shut down in the summer of 2019, but many security researchers believe the co...

More hacking groups join Microsoft Exchange attack frenzy By More state-sponsored hacking groups have joined the ongoing attacks targeting tens of thousands of on-premises Exchange servers impacted by severe vulnerabilities tracked as ProxyLogon. After Microsoft's initial report that the vulnerabilities were actively exploited by a Chinese APT group named Hafnium, Slovak internet security firm ESET shared info on at least three other Chinese-backed hacking groups abusing the ProxyLogon flaws in ongoing attacks. Besides those three (APT27, Bronze Butler aka Tick, and Calypso), ESET also...

Ryuk ransomware hits 700 Spanish government labor agency offices By 08:35 AM The systems of SEPE, the Spanish government agency for labor, were taken down following a ransomware attack that hit more than 700 agency offices across Spain. "Currently, work is being done with the objective of restoring priority services as soon as possible, among which is the portal of the State Public Employment Service and then gradually other services to citizens, companies, benefit and employment offices," an announcement on the agency's website reads. "The application deadlines for benefits are extended by ...

Windows 10 crashes when printing due to Microsoft March updates By The Windows 10 KB5000802 and KB5000808 cumulative updates released yesterday are causing Blue Screen of Death crashes when printing to network printers. Since then, there has been a constant stream of complaints that printing is causing Windows 10 to crash with an "APC_INDEX_MISMATCH for win32kfull.sys" blue screen of death crash. Example APC_INDEX_MISMATCH for win32kfull.sys crash According to posts by system administrators on Reddit [1, 2], the Windows 10 crashes began immediately after installing yesterday's KB5000802 and ...

Norway's parliament, the Storting, has suffered another cyberattack after threat actors stole data using the recently disclosed Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities.