Bite Sized Cyber Crime

Lockbit Taken Down, but Still a Threat

Lockbit is one of the most notorious ransomware gangs out there, and recently a multinational operation arrested several people involved, stole back extorted cash, and released a decryptor for the ransomware. However, Lockbit isn't quite dead yet.
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EFAIL: The Bug That Broke Email Encryption

Email encryption is important for keeping confidential information safe, as well as communicating over unsecured networks, or in potentially hostile nations. One bug in 2017 was able to break this encryption though, exposing the plaintext content of encrypted emails.
 
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Lurie Children's Hopsital Down for Weeks due to Hackers

One of the best renowned children's hospitals, Lurie, in Chicago has been experiencing an outage for nearly two weeks, with parents feeling as they've been left in the dark. Recently it was revealed that a "known cyber threat" was responsible.
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Hacker Fakes and Tries to Sell Europcar Data

Data breaches are the worst nightmare of many organizations that collect sensitive data. Europcar was going to be the next company breached, except on closer inspection, none of the data posted was real.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/wDwTunKb

Pegasus: The Spyware Sold to Governments

The fear that the government or someone else is spying on you is a common one, moreso with modern technology. In some cases, that fear is not unreasonable. Pegasus is spyware developed by Israeli cyber-arms company NSO Group, and it has been sold to many governments and fallen into the wrong hands.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/9JHz3ZDU

iShutDown: A New Method for Detecting iOS Spyware

Mobile devices are everywhere, carried with us everywhere we go in our day. This makes them perfect targets for Spyware. Recently a new method was discovered to uncover hidden Spyware on suspected infected phones.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/5pYN9bnj

Russian and Ukrainian Hackers Take Down Each Other’s ISPs

Russia and Ukraine are at war, but these days war is not always boots on the ground. The internet and modern technology introduced a whole new way to attack enemies, and after Russia took down Ukraine's biggest telecoms provider a Ukrainian group decided to take revenge.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/SwDJiy1r

Terrapin Vulnerability Leaves Millions of SSH Servers Vulnerable

A new attack method against the SSH protocol, the very first of its kind, was recently discovered by German researchers. It leaves millions of servers at risk of attack, and it practical to exploit, but is it as bad as it sounds? Find out today!
 
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