The Mozilla Firefox vulnerability (CVE-2020-16044) is separate from a bug reported in Google’s browser engine Chromium, which is used in the Google Chrome browser and Microsoft’s Edge browser.

Sensitive data stolen from Hackney Council in the UK has allegedly been published online, three months after the ransomware attack on the local authority that took place last year.

The “customers,” also known as the attackers, contact Oski authors on underground forums to purchase the malware and, once purchased, they configure it and distribute it to their victims.

The Egregor ransomware first appeared on the threat landscape in September 2020, since then the gang claimed to have compromised over 150 firms, including Barnes and Noble, Kmart, Ubisoft, and more.

Nisos announced $6M in funding led by global cyber investor Paladin Capital Group. The investment enables Nisos to expand its marketing and operations, while extending its international footprint.

The operators of the Ryuk ransomware are believed to have earned more than $150 million worth of Bitcoin from ransom payments following intrusions at companies all over the world.

Application security pioneer F5 said it will acquire the privately-held, Volterra of Santa Clara, California, a maker of distributed multi-cloud application security and load-balancing software.

Cisco Talos discovered a denial-of-service bug in the Ethernet/IP server functionality of Rockwell Automation RSLinx Classic. It could be exploited by sending the target a series of malicious packets.

The risk of these supply chain hacks is much higher than previously acknowledged, due to the high level of connectivity across different critical infrastructure sectors in the economy.

The Git server, a Bitbucket instance, was taken offline yesterday after the data started circulating on Monday in the form of torrent links shared on Telegram channels and hacking forums.