ClickOnDetroit reports: In an email sent to parents late Sunday, Walled Lake Consolidated School District says a system outage has been linked to a cyberattack. The hack will not impact virtual learning. Superintendent Kenneth Gutman said virtual learning will proceed as normal when classes resume Monday morning. Read more on ClickOnDetroit to read the district’s…
Report: U.S. Cyber Command Behind Trickbot Tricks
Brian Krebs reports: A week ago, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that someone was attempting to disrupt the Trickbot botnet, a malware crime machine that has infected millions of computers and is often used to spread ransomware. A new report Friday says the coordinated attack was part of an operation carried out by the U.S. military’s Cyber Command. Read more…
The most common malicious email attachments infecting Windows
Lawrence Abrams reports: To stay safe online, everyone needs to recognize malicious attachments that are commonly used in phishing emails to distribute malware. When distributing malware, threat actors create spam campaigns that pretend to be invoices, invites, payment information, shipping information, eFaxes, voicemails, and more. Included in these emails are malicious Word and Excel attachments,…
Hacker groups chain VPN and Windows bugs to attack US government networks
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Hackers have gained access to government networks by combining VPN and Windows bugs, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said in a joint security alert published on Friday. Attacks have targeted federal and state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) government networks. Attacks against non-government…
Lined up in the sights of Vietnamese hackers
Hakan Tanriverdi, Max Zierer, Ann-Kathrin Wetter, Kai Biermann (Zeit Online), and Thi Do Nguyen (Zeit Online) report: A group of Vietnamese hackers has been systematically spying on dissidents for years, including in Germany. The victims feel left alone by authorities as an investigation by BR and Zeit Online is able to show. Bui Thanh Hieu…
Some Longmont NextLight customers’ service affected by Friday cyberattack
John Fryar reports: A Friday afternoon cyberattack on NextLight, Longmont’s high-speed, fiber optic broadband internet service, affected a number of customers but has been resolved by NextLight engineers, Longmont Power and Communications reported in a Facebook post Friday. Longmont Power and Communications spokesman Scott Rochat wrote in an email that the disruption was the result…