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Major Victory Against Cybercrime: Norwegian Police Seize $5.84 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency Stolen by Lazarus Group
Introduction The Norwegian police agency Økokrim has announced a major victory against the notorious North Korea-backed hacking group Lazarus. In March 2022, the group hacked...
How the Devastating Ransomware Attack in Oakland Brought the City to its Knees
Introduction The ransomware attack that struck Oakland on February 8, 2023, has had severe consequences for the city's services. The attack forced the City's Information...
Cloudflare Mitigates Largest HTTP DDoS Attack on Record
Cloudflare successfully mitigated a massive hyper-volumetric DDoS attack that peaked at over 71 million requests per second (RPS), making it the largest reported HTTP...
New Variant of ESXiArgs Ransomware Cannot be Decrypted with Recovery Script
In a constant arms race between cybercriminals and cybersecurity experts, the ransomware group behind the massive attack on ESXi Virtual Machines (VMs) has developed...
eCommerce Security: Accidental Data Leaks Put Online Stores at Risk
eCommerce security company Sansec has conducted a study of 2,037 online stores, which revealed that 12.3 percent of them are inadvertently exposing compressed files...
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