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Categories: Threat Intelligence In September, LockBit accounted for almost half of all known ransomware attacks. (Read more...) The post Ransomware review: September 2022 appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: News Tags: compromise Tags: ransomware Tags: leak Tags: extortion Tags: LAUSD Data stolen from Los Angeles Unified School District has been leaked online, after staff refused to pay the ransom related to a ransomware attack. (Read more...) The post Ransomware-affected school district refuses to pay, gets stolen data released appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Tags: Atlassian Tags: Bitbucket Tags: git Tags: CVE-2022-36804 Tags: RCE Tags: read permission International cybersecurity authorities are warning about the active exploitation of a vulnerability in Bitbucket Server and Data Center (Read more...) The post Actively exploited vulnerability in Bitbucket Server and Data Center appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: News Tags: romance scam Tags: deepfake Tags: mark ruffalo Tags: manga Tags: theft Tags: online Tags: social media We take a look at a romance scammer getting ahead of the game and using deepfakes to steal a huge amount of money from a victim. (Read more...) The post Romance scammer deepfakes Mark Ruffalo to con elderly artist appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: News The most important and interesting computer security stories from the last week. (Read more...) The post A week in security (September 26 – October 2) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: News Sorry. (Read more...) The post Why (almost) everything we told you about passwords was wrong appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Tags: Exchange Tags: ProxyShell Tags: remote PowerShell Tags: web shell Tags: CVE-2022-41040 Tags: CVE-2022-41082 Tags: SSRF Tags: RCE Two ProxyShell-like vulnerabilities are being used to exploit Microsoft Exchange Servers (Read more...) The post Two new Exchange Server zero-days in the wild appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: Business With a few best practices, local governments can improve their cybersecurity posture and make it less likely that threat actors attack their systems. We’ll break down five best practices for local government cybersecurity in this post. (Read more...) The post Local government cybersecurity: 5 best practices appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: News Tags: Optus Tags: breach Tags: optusdata Tags: text messages Tags: drivers' licenses Tags: Medicare Tags: identity protection A hacker stole the personal information of 10 million Optus customers, threatened to publish them in lots of 10,000 a day unless the ransom was paid, and then suddenly did a 180 degree turn. (Read more...) The post Optus data breach "attacker" says sorry, it was a mistake appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: Cybercrime Categories: News The US business magazine appeared to have two separate and related incidents in which it was compromised. (Read more...) The post Fast Company hacked to send obscene and racist messages appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.