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We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.
Infamous ransomware hackers reveal new tool to brute-force VPNs
Researchers uncovered a brute-forcing tool called BRUTED It was used since 2023 against VPNs and firewalls BRUTED allows for ...
Black Basta uses brute-forcing tool to attack edge devices
The ransomware gang developed an automated framework to guess weak and reused passwords on VPNs and firewalls.
Akira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours — new counterattack breaks encryption
Tinyhack publishes a full how-to guide on brute-forcing past the Akira ransomware's encryption attack and freeing captive ...
New Akira ransomware decryptor cracks encryptions keys using GPUs
Security researcher Yohanes Nugroho has released a decryptor for the Linux variant of Akira ransomware, which utilizes GPU ...
Huge cyber attack under way - 2.8 million IPs being used to target VPN devices
To conduct the attack, the threat actors are using MikroTik, Huawei, Cisco, Boa, and ZTE routers and other internet-connected devices, likely compromised with malware, or broken into themselves, ...
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Ransomware gang creates tool to automate VPN brute-force attacks
Büyükkaya says Black Basta has been using the automated BRUTED platform since 2023 to conduct large-scale credential-stuffing and brute-force attacks on edge network devices. Analysis of the ...
Massive Iran-linked botnet launches DDoS attacks against telecom, gaming platforms
A massive botnet comprising more than 30,000 hacked security cameras and network video recorders is being used to launch DDoS ...