Security researchers have uncovered ransomware that forces victims to perform socially beneficial activities. The director of the US NSA has publicly acknowledged the involvement of US military hackers in the Ukraine conflict, and widespread activity by the international security community has led to multiple arrests, infrastructure seizures, and convictions. Ransomware to help the underprivileged Cyber…
Cybersecurity in healthcare. Let’s discuss responsibilities and solutions Tuesday 21st June Bratislava 13:30 (Hotel Hilton Trnavská cesta 27/a) Wednesday 22nd June Banská Bystrica 13:30 (Hotel Lux Námestie Slobody 2) Thursday 23rd June Košice 8:30 (Hotel Hilton Hlavná 1) Programme registration, coffee presentation and discussion Rastislav Janota, Director, National Cyber Security Centre SK-CERT The pillars of…
UPDATE 01.06.2022 at 17:20: Warning of active vulnerability exploitation and added mitigation recommendations UPDATE 31.05.2022 at 13:40: Added CVE and vulnerability mitigation method The National Cyber Security Centre SK-CERT warns of a critical 0-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office. The vulnerability is currently being actively exploited by attackers and there is a very high assumption that…
The National Cyber Security Centre SK-CERT warns against the spread of the Flubot malware, which targets mobile devices running the Android operating system. The malware is currently spreading via SMS and MMS in several EU countries and there is a high probability that attackers will also target Slovak cyberspace. NCKB SK-CERT has been tracking Flubot…
Security researchers have published information about a phishing campaign targeting German car companies, the malicious Flubot malware is spreading in the Czech Republic, and cybercriminals have exploited the theft of a well-known car company’s subdomain. A long-term phishing campaign Security researchers at CheckPoint have released information about a persistent phishing campaign that began in July…
Over a thousand registered players, hundreds of active players, surprise victories and the youngest participants aged 12. Such was the CyberGame The first edition of the Slovak cybersecurity game CyberGame, where more than one thousand and two hundred participants registered, has ended. 581 players of different ages and professions “collected flags” on the gaming platform,…
Russian payment service QIWI was the target of a ransomware attack and data theft, which was subsequently made public. Security researchers uncovered a large-scale spying campaign and Google will allow some data to be removed from search results on request. Chinese APT espionage campaign Cybereason security researchers uncovered an operation by the Chinese APT group…
A new ransomware group Black Basta has emerged, a new cybercrime group Onyx is mixing ransomware with vipers, Google has changed the terms for Android app developers, and a (un)clever cybercriminal has successfully stolen a million in cryptocurrencies. An attack on a wind turbine manufacturer German wind turbine manufacturing company Deutsche Windtechnik was the target…
As of the beginning of March, there are more than one thousand and two hundred registered participants in the Slovak CyberGame and 540 male players and 32 female players are actively playing. The extraordinary interest of different age categories and professions surprised the official sponsor of the competition, which is the National Cyber Security Centre…
On 31 March 2021, the National Cyber Security Centre SK-CERT warned of a 0-day vulnerability in the Spring Framework, which is used to develop applications in Java. Since this is a widely used framework and there have been cases of exploiting this 0-day vulnerability, we are supplementing the previous warning with this article. What is…
