Since countries have started to implement shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders during the Coronavirus pandemic, the Zoom video conference app has become a common way to keep in contact with friends and family, and even take exercise classes online. Nevertheless. With the increase in popularity of Zoom, a form of attack called ‘Zoom-bombing’ has also witnessed…
Marriott Reports Data Breach Affecting Up to 5.2 Million Guests! Marriott International today announced that in a data breach incident found at the end of February 2020, the personal information of approximately 5.2 million hotel guests was affected. “At the end of February 2020, we noticed that an unexpected amount of guest information may have…
Office 365 Is Now Microsoft 365! Microsoft confirmed they are re-branding the Office 365 service as Microsoft 365 with the introduction of a new digital subscription bundle that includes Office, OneDrive and Outlook applications. A modern Family Security Protection App, and Teams for Consumer. Beginning on April 21, with the announcement of a new software…
We Can Help You Work Remotely During COVID-19 COVID-19 is changing the way many of us have to operate our businesses on a day to day basis. Many of us are forced to work remotely and may not have the means to do so securely. As all of us move to working more remotely, IT…
Ryuk Ransomware Targets Hospitals During Pandemic. The operators of Ryuk Ransomware continue attacking hospitals even though these institutions are overwhelmed during the Coronavirus pandemic. Last week ransomware groups were contacted and asked if they would target hospitals and other healthcare organizations during the pandemic. In this pandemic, with the amount of pressure healthcare organizations are under,…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) alerts its customers once again that all Serial-Attached SCSI solid-state drives will malfunction after 40,000 hours of operation, unless there is a vital patch. The business made a similar announcement in November 2019, when a software defect after 32,768 hours of running caused a malfunction. Drives that were affected The current…
Cyber criminals actors behind the WordPress WP-VCD malware have begun distributing modified versions of Pirated WordPress Coronavirus Plugins which inject a backdoor into a website. This allows the attackers access to the website and all of it’s data whenever they want. The WP-VCD strain of WordPress infections are usually distributed as nulled, or pirated, WordPress…
Netwalker Ransomware Targeting Users via Coronavirus Phishing As if people didn’t have enough to think about in these difficult times, attackers are now threatening people with phishing emails from Coronavirus (COVID-19) that install the Netwalker Ransomware. Sadly, we do not have an example of the actual phishing email that was being sent, MalwareHunterTeam was able…
In view of the extraordinary recent circumstances with the COVID-19 virus, many workers around the world are in a position where they have to operate from home or remotely. Our team here at Diriga has been working remotely for about 10 years now, so we thought it would be great to share some…
Folding@home project Phishing Attacks are starting to appear online! Cyber criminals are starting to send out a new phishing email which takes advantage of the Coronavirus pandemic and the race to develop medications by promoting a fake Folding@home app that installs an information-stealing malware on the targets system. Folding@home is a well-known computing project that…