Berlin Tells Cyber Extortionists: “We’re Not Paying!” Berlin’s state government has confirmed it is facing an extortion attempt following the compromise of its administrative network, and officials have made one part of their response very clear. They’re not paying. Investigators discovered additional data had been removed from systems belonging to Berlin’s Senate Department for Mobility, […]

Five WordPress Security Problems You Don’t Want to Ignore Everyone and their dog has created a website using WordPress (even us!), but that doesn’t mean its inheritently secure. WordPress administrators have been handed another compelling reason to check the updates page. Security researchers have disclosed five critical WordPress vulnerabilities affecting WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, […]

Fire Ant Moves Into the Network’s Best Seat Fire ant, a China-linked cyber espionage operation, not the insects have been targeting some of the most trusted equipment inside corporate networks, including Cisco routers and authentication servers. And controlling the router is rather more useful to an attacker than compromising another laptop. Investigators from Sygnia discovered […]

Hackers Are Now Trying to Scare the AI Cyber attackers have found another unusual way to hide malware: convincing the artificial intelligence analysing it that it would rather not look. Russia-aligned threat group UAC-0099 has been observed using a technique researchers have named GuardBreaker. Instead of simply attempting to hide malicious code through encryption or […]