Category: Kamban

Microsoft confirmed today that a nine-hour outage on Tuesday that took down and disrupted multiple Microsoft 365 and Azure services worldwide was triggered by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Redmond says the outage impacted Microsoft Entra, some Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview services (including Intune, Power BI, and Power Platform), as well as Azure App…

What is the SSL Certificate Problem: Self-Signed Certificate in Certificate Chain? The “SSL Certificate Problem: Self-Signed Certificate in Certificate Chain” error occurs when an SSL/TLS certificate is not found and the client receives a self-signed certificate that it does not trust as part of the certificate chain. This results in an error message informing users…

A malicious campaign targeting Android devices worldwide utilizes thousands of Telegram bots to infect devices with SMS-stealing malware and steal one-time 2FA passwords (OTPs) for over 600 services. Zimperium researchers discovered the operation and have been tracking it since February 2022. They report finding at least 107,000 distinct malware samples associated with the campaign. The…

A Fortune 50 company paid a record-breaking $75 million ransom payment to the Dark Angels ransomware gang, according to a report by Zscaler ThreatLabz. “In early 2024, ThreatLabz uncovered a victim who paid Dark Angels $75 million, higher than any publicly known amount— an achievement that’s bound to attract the interest of other attackers looking…

CISA has ordered U.S. Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to secure their servers against a VMware ESXi authentication bypass vulnerability exploited in ransomware attacks. Broadcom subsidiary VMware fixed this flaw (CVE-2024-37085) discovered by Microsoft security researchers on June 25 with the release of ESXi 8.0 U3. CVE-2024-37085 allows attackers to add a new user…

The Black Basta ransomware gang has shown resilience and an ability to adapt to a constantly shifting space, using new custom tools and tactics to evade detection and spread throughout a network. Black Basta is a ransomware operator who has been active since April 2022 and is responsible for over 500 successful attacks on companies…

These are the men and women who are pushing boundaries and turning the IT market on its ear. The Top 25 Disrupters of 2024 have been answering the call from partners and customers to help companies improve their efficiency while also modernizing their IT environments. Whether it’s helping customers and partners to accelerate their migration…

Google Chrome now comes with better cookie protection on Windows systems, with the addition of app-bound encryption, which improves defenses against information-stealing malware attacks. As Chrome software engineer Will Harris explained in a blog post published today, Chrome currently uses the most robust techniques provided by each operating system to safeguard sensitive data such as…

The City of Columbus, Ohio, says it’s investigating whether personal data was stolen in a ransomware attack on July 18, 2024 that disrupted the City’s services. The attack caused disruptions in public-facing services, seeding confusion about whether the IT outages were linked to CrowdStrike’s faulty Falcon configuration update. Not many details were provided then, but…