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The peer-to-peer malware botnet known as P2PInfect has been found targeting misconfigured Redis servers with ransomware and cryptocurrency miners.
The development marks the threat’s transition from what appeared to be a dormant botnet with unclear motives to a financially motivated operation.
“With its latest updates to the crypto miner, ransomware payload, and rootkit elements, it demonstrates

Threat actors with suspected ties to China and North Korea have been linked to ransomware and data encryption attacks targeting government and critical infrastructure sectors across the world between 2021 and 2023.
While one cluster of activity has been associated with the ChamelGang (aka CamoFei), the second cluster overlaps with activity previously attributed to Chinese and North Korean

The China-nexus cyberthreat actor has been operating since at least 2019 and has notched victims in multiple countries.

The European Union has issued competition charges against Microsoft, accusing it of illegally linking Teams with Office.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to plead guilty to one count of espionage in US court on Wednesday, ending a years-long legal battle between the US government and a controversial publisher.

The high-severity CVE-2024-5806 allows cyberattackers to authenticate to the file-transfer platform as any valid user, with accompanying privileges.

More than 200 regional and national government agencies have been impacted by the ransomware attack, and few of them are once again operational.

An unknown adversary compromised a CISA app containing the data via a vulnerability in the Ivanti Connect Secure appliance this January.

Injected malicious JavaScript code gives attackers administrator rights on websites, and fills sites with SEO spam.

Knowledge institutions with legacy infrastructure, limited resources, and digitized intellectual property must protect themselves from sophisticated and destructive cyberattacks.