- Ransomware
- Ransomware encrypts South Africa’s entire Dept of Justice network [Ionut Ilascu, Bleeping Computer]
- Free REvil ransomware master decrypter released for past victims [Lawrence Abrams, Bleeping Computer]
- Ransomware accounted for a quarter of all cyber insurance claims in Europe between 2016 and 2020 [Catalin Cimpanu, TheRecord]
- South Africa’s legal system on its knees after cyberattack [Jan Vermeulen, MyBroadband]
- Hack
- New malware uses Windows Subsystem for Linux for stealthy attacks [Ionut Ilascu, Bleeping Computer]
- US fines former NSA employees who provided hacker-for-hire services to UAE [Catalin Cimpanu, TheRecord]
- New Go malware Capoae targets WordPress installs, Linux systems [Charlie Osborne, ZDNet]
- OWASP updates top 10 vulnerability ranking for first time since 2017 [Jonathan Greig, ZDNet]
- Patch
- Update Chrome – major security flaws fixed [Myles Illidge, MyBroadband]
- Microsoft patches Office zero-day in today’s Patch Tuesday [Catalin Cimpanu, TheRecord]
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