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FBI warns food and agriculture to brace for seasonal ransomware attacks

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently released a Private Industry Notification warning agriculture cooperatives (also known as “farmers’ co-ops”) of the looming danger of well-timed ransomware attacks. The agency warns that during the critical planting and harvesting seasons, attacks could result in the theft of proprietary information, and operational disruption leading to financial losses …

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Hackers fool major tech companies into handing over data of women and minors to abuse

Some major tech companies have unwittingly opened harassment and exploitation opportunities to the women and children who they have pledged to protect. This happened because they provided information in response to emergency data requests from legitimate law enforcement accounts that hackers had compromised. This finding came from four federal law enforcement agencies and a couple …

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Call of Duty cheats can expect embarrassment with new anti-cheat feature

In-game cheats are about to have an even harder time of things in triple AAA titles such as Call of Duty. Activision’s “Ricochet” software – a kernel level driver anti-cheat system – has added another twist to the tale of how players are protected via a new system called “Cloaking”. Making all new punishments fit …

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Fake USA for UNHCR site wants your Ukraine donations in Bitcoin

Since Russia began invading Ukraine in late February, many organizations have set up donation pages to aid the most heavily affected: Families who were forced out of their homes due to bombings and children separated from grown-ups who decided to stay and take arms. We’ve also seen a considerable amount of scams preying on those …

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QNAP customers urged to disable AFP to protect against severe vulnerabilities

MacOS users that have a network-attached storage (NAS) device made by QNAP are being advised to disable the Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) on their devices until some severe vulnerabilities have been fixed. But QNAP is not the only vendor that needed to fix these vulnerabilities. Others have already done so, or have taken more drastic …

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Onyx ransomware destroys files, and also the criminal circle of trust

Some ransomware authors seem to be further whittling down their tenuous circle of trust style agreement with victims even further. Word has spread of a new Onyx ransomware operation which is quite a bit more destructive than those impacted would be hoping for. The ransomware in question overwrites files larger than 200MB. Anything important is …

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