Acer has suffered a “double tap” ransomware attack, and the ransom demanded is a new record – $50M. Initial reporting by Bleeping Computer attributes the attack to the REvil group. The previous record demand, also by REvil was for $30M for the Dairy Farm attack. The network is believed to have been infected via the […]
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Security researcher Alex Birsan has successfully demonstrated a potential supply chain attack, and in the process the proof-of-concept exploit was installed on systems in Apple, Microsoft and thirty three other companies. Multiple organisations have paid the researchers “bug bounties” totalling $130,000 so far for finding these vulnerabilities. Like other supply chain attacks, notably the recent
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When the venerable “perl.com” domain which supports the Perl scripting language went offline last week, there was some initial speculation that the domain had been allowed to lapse and had been opportunistically re-registered by a third party. However, after some detective work a more sophisticated and troubling story is beginning to emerge. It has been
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