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The Week in Ransomware - April 20th 2018 - Reveton Charges, GandCrab, and More
Twitter Bans Kaspersky From Advertising on the Platform Citing DHS Ban
Internet Explorer Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild by APT Group
Big IoT Botnet Starts Large-Scale Exploitation of Drupalgeddon 2 Vulnerability

The Week in Ransomware - April 20th 2018 - Reveton Charges, GandCrab, and More

Posted: 20 Apr 2018 02:42 PM PDT

This week was mostly small variants released, but we did have some interesting news. First we had a Microsoft engineer facing federal charges for involvement in the Reveton Ransomware, a decryptor released for Vortex, the Magnitude exploit kit is now pushing GandCrab, and a ransomware is trying to make money off of Syrian refugees. [...]

Twitter Bans Kaspersky From Advertising on the Platform Citing DHS Ban

Posted: 20 Apr 2018 02:10 PM PDT

Twitter has banned Kaspersky Lab from advertising on its platform citing the company's alleged ties with Russian intelligence agencies. [...]

Internet Explorer Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild by APT Group

Posted: 20 Apr 2018 12:42 PM PDT

An advanced persistent threat (APT), a term sometimes used to describe nation-state-backed cyber-espionage units, is using a zero-day vulnerability in the Internet Explorer kernel code to infect victims with malware. [...]

Big IoT Botnet Starts Large-Scale Exploitation of Drupalgeddon 2 Vulnerability

Posted: 20 Apr 2018 08:27 AM PDT

A botnet made up of servers and smart devices has begun the mass exploitation of a severe Drupal CMS vulnerability and is using already compromised systems to infect new machines, in a worm-like behavior. [...]

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