The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) warns it suffered a cyberattack, which disrupted its IT systems and online operations, including email and the Logbook of the World. ARRL is the national association for amateur radio in the United States, representing amateur radio interests to government regulatory bodies, providing technical advice, and promoting events and educational programs for…

The banking trojan “Grandoreiro” is spreading in a large-scale phishing campaign in over 60 countries, targeting customer accounts of roughly 1,500 banks. In January 2024, an international law enforcement operation involving Brazil, Spain, Interpol, ESET, and Caixa Bank announced the disruption of the malware operation, which had been targeting Spanish-speaking countries since 2017 and caused $120 million in losses.…

The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added three security vulnerabilities to its ‘Known Exploited Vulnerabilities’ catalog, one impacting Google Chrome and two affecting some D-Link routers. Adding the issues to the KEV catalog serves as a warning to federal agencies and companies that threat actors are leveraging them in attacks and security updates or…

Since Google enabled its AI-powered search feature, many people have tried and failed to disable the often incorrect AI Overviews feature in regular search results. Unfortunately, you can’t. However, there are ways to turn it off using a new “Web” search mode, which we explain below. AI Overviews, also known as “Search Generative Experience,” is Google’s new…

A ransomware operation targets Windows system administrators by taking out Google ads to promote fake download sites for Putty and WinSCP. WinSCP and Putty are popular Windows utilities, with WinSCP being an SFTP client and FTP client and Putty an SSH client. System administrators commonly have higher privileges on a Windows network, making them valuable targets for threat actors…

The Android banking trojan “Grandoreiro” is spreading in a large-scale phishing campaign in over 60 countries, targeting customer accounts of roughly 1,500 banks. In January 2024, an international law enforcement operation involving Brazil, Spain, Interpol, ESET, and Caixa Bank announced the disruption of the malware operation, which had been targeting Spanish-speaking countries since 2017 and caused $120 million in…

This week was pretty quiet on the ransomware front, with most of the attention on the seizure of the BreachForums data theft forum. However, that does not mean there was nothing of interest released this week about ransomware. A report by CISA said that the Black Basta ransomware oepration has breached over 500 organizations worlwide…