Cyber Attack on Emergency Sirens – HOW IT REALLY HAPPENED: NINJIO SEASON 2, EPISODE 7, 156 ALARMS In NINJIO’s Season 2, Episode 7, all the sirens in the city of Dallas go off and as a result, an elderly man thinks that the city is being attacked. He then starts [...]
Ransomware attacks 2020-2021 – Recently, cybersecurity researchers have shown that ransomware attacks doubled in number. In the first quarter of 2020’s financial year, ransomware attacks have dramatically increased due to the home-office working that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought along. It is pointed out that the main reason for [...]
Ransomware Infection – While ransomware generating hackers are heavily targeting vulnerabilities in Citrix and Pulse Secure VPN software to infiltrate corporate networks in the first half of 2020, some ransomware targets the vulnerable or risky Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Ransomware attacks targeting the business sector reached the Top for [...]
THE RANSOMWARE PYRAMID SCHEME – HOW IT REALLY HAPPENED: NINJIO SEASON 2, EPISODE 5 This episode is based on a Ransomware variant in production gives you an option to pay the ransom, or infect other people to get you unlocked for free In NINJIO’s Season 2, Episode 5, there is a [...]
In this blog, we are going to discuss the Whaling attack that evolved in the last couple of years targeting someone like a top-level executive like a senior executive at a corporation. Whaling attacks have seen a sharp rise and are expected to go up, as according to the [...]
In our 3rd Episode of Season 2, we learn that a company’s payroll deposit went to hackers instead of employees, to the tune of $800,000. While it might seem harmless at first , loading software from anywhere other than the manufacturer’s app store can be very risky. Free is [...]
Ransomware Attack Shut Down School System. On the first day of elementary school students starting online classes, the Haywood school system was hit by a ransomware attack. 1. How Ransomware Attack Shut Down School System? The attackers demanded a large amount of money to restore the system, but the ransom amount was not unveiled [...]
Malware attacks have increased 8 times in the last 10 years. Applications and devices must have machine IDs to securely communicate with each other upon authentication. However, whether it is a Kubernetes application or a serverless function in the cloud, machines prefer to use encryption keys and digital certificates used [...]
US government agencies say Taidoor malware has been around since 2008 and is a remote access Trojan (RAT) type of malware. 1. What is a RAT? (Remote Access Trojan) It is a type of malware that causes hackers to have remote access to the device of the target user and to take [...]
Last June, the FBI warned of a type of bot malware targets insecure banking and financial mobile applications, can leak sensitive information, capture and send passwords to the servers it communicates with, and gain accounts. This newly emerging mobile malware resembles the Trojan horse named EventBot, which appeared in April. [...]
