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CERT France – Pysa ransomware is targeting local governments

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CERT France is warning of a new wave of attacks using Pysa ransomware (Mespinoza) that is targeting local governments. CERT France cyber-security agency is warning about a new wave of ransomware attack that is targeting the networks of local government authorities. The malicious code appended the extension. This new version used the.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 222 – News of the week

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Croatia government agencies targeted with news SilentTrinity malware. Backdoor mechanism found in Ruby strong_password library. Cyberattack shuts down La Porte County government systems. Prototype Pollution flaw discovered in all versions of Lodash Library. Microsoft released Patch Tuesday security updates for July 2019.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 248

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Citrix releases permanent fixes for CVE-2019-19781 flaw in ADC 11.1 Malware attack took down 600 computers at Volusia County Public Library. For the second time in a few days, Greek Government websites hit by DDoS attacks. Bot list with Telnet credentials for more than 500,000 servers and IoT devices leaked online.

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FBI warns of PYSA Ransomware attacks against Education Institutions in US and UK

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In March 2020, CERT France cyber-security agency warned about a new wave of ransomware attack that was targeting the networks of local government authorities. According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware. This new version used the.

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PYSA ransomware gang is the most active group in November

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Experts observed a 400% increase in the number of attacks, compared with October, that hit government organizations. PYSA ransomware operators focus on large or high-value finance, government and healthcare organisations. CERT-FR’s alert states that the Pysa ransomware code is based on public Python libraries.

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APT10 is back with two new loaders and new versions of known payloads

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The APT10 group has added two new malware loaders to its arsenal and used in attacks aimed at government and private organizations in Southeast Asia. In April 2019, China-linked cyber-espionage group tracked as APT10 has added two new loaders to its arsenal and used it against government and private organizations in Southeast Asia.

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Multiple threat actors exploited Progress Telerik bug to breach U.S. federal agency

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Multiple threat actors exploited a critical flaw in Progress Telerik to breach an unnamed US federal agency, said the US government. The three-year-old vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-18935 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a.NET deserialization issue that resides in the Progress Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX. ” reads the advisory.

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