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Ransomware's big jump: ransoms grew 14 times in one year

Ransomware has become one of the most insidious threats in the past couple of years, with actors scaling up their operations to the point that the average ransom demand increased more than 10 times in one year. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ransomwares-big-jump-ransoms-grew-14-times-in-one-year/
Germany govt urges iOS users to patch critical Mail app flaws

Germany's federal cybersecurity agency today urged iOS users to immediately install the iOS and iPadOS security updates released by Apple on May 20 to patch two actively exploited zero-click security vulnerabilities impacting the default email app. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/germany-govt-urges-ios-users-to-patch-critical-mail-app-flaws/
New Octopus Scanner malware spreads via GitHub supply chain attack

Security researchers have found a new malware that finds and backdoors open-source NetBeans projects hosted on the GitHub web-based code hosting platform to spread to Windows, Linux, and macOS systems and deploy a Remote Administration Tool (RAT). [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-octopus-scanner-malware-spreads-via-github-supply-chain-attack/
NSA: Russian govt hackers exploiting critical Exim flaw since 2019

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) says that Russian military threat actors tracked as Sandworm Team have been exploiting a critical flaw in the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) software since at least August 2019. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nsa-russian-govt-hackers-exploiting-critical-exim-flaw-since-2019/
Microsoft IIS servers hacked by Blue Mockingbird to mine Monero

This month news broke about a hacker group, namely Blue Mockingbird, exploiting a critical vulnerability in Microsoft IIS servers to plant Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency miners on compromised machines. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-iis-servers-hacked-by-blue-mockingbird-to-mine-monero/
200K sites with buggy WordPress plugin exposed to wipe attacks

Two high severity security vulnerabilities found in the PageLayer plugin can let attackers to potentially wipe the contents or take over WordPress sites using vulnerable plugin versions. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/200k-sites-with-buggy-wordpress-plugin-exposed-to-wipe-attacks/
Cisco hacked by exploiting vulnerable SaltStack servers

Cisco said today that some of its Cisco Virtual Internet Routing Lab Personal Edition (VIRL-PE) backend servers were hacked by exploiting critical SaltStack vulnerabilities patched last month. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisco-hacked-by-exploiting-vulnerable-saltstack-servers/
Windows 10 2004 upgrade may be blocked due to old graphics drivers

Microsoft is blocking Windows 10 2004 upgrades due to multiple conflicts caused by older or incompatible display drivers. Microsoft will not allow the May 2020 Update to be installed until these issues are resolved. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-2004-upgrade-may-be-blocked-due-to-old-graphics-drivers/