London hospitals declare emergency following ransomware attack | Ars Technica

The outage has led hospitals, including Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College Hospital Trusts, to cancel operations and procedures involving blood transfusions. The cancellations include transplant surgeries, which require blood transfusions.

Multibillion Dollar Botnet Scam Traced Back to a Single Person

The illicit scheme was massively successful. According to the DOJ, 911 S5 raked in an eye-watering $99 million since its inception in 2014. Wan spent much of that income on luxury properties, cars, watches, and more.

Kaspersky releases free tool that scans Linux for known threats

The security firm notes that despite the common misconception that Linux systems are intrinsically secure from threats, there has been a constant supply of “in the wild” examples that prove otherwise, most recently, the XZ Utils backdoor.

Cybercriminals pose as “helpful” Stack Overflow users to push malware

This approach serves as a reminder of the constantly changing tactics of cybercriminals and, unfortunately, illustrates why you can never blindly trust what someone shares online.

Hackers phish finance orgs using trojanized Minesweeper clone

Hackers are utilizing code from a Python clone of Microsoft’s venerable Minesweeper game to hide malicious scripts in attacks on European and US financial organizations.

Hackers Exploiting Quick Assist Tool To Deliver Ransomware

Hackers often target remote assist tools because they create a direct channel to access desired systems with minimum effort. 

Crooks plant backdoor in software used by courtrooms around the world | Ars Technica

A software maker serving more than 10,000 courtrooms throughout the world hosted an application update containing a hidden backdoor that maintained persistent communication with a malicious website, researchers reported Thursday, in the latest episode of a supply-chain attack

Someone connected Windows XP to the internet, and it didn’t survive long

https://www.xda-developers.com/connected-windows-xp-internet-didnt-survive-long/

Protect against iPhone trojan GoldPickaxe: How-to – 9to5Mac

https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/14/protect-against-iphone-trojan-goldpickaxe/

Ransomware Defense: Top 5 Things to Do Right Now | Threatpost

https://threatpost.com/ransomware-defense-top-5-tips/167536/