August 2020

Attention! If you use Amazon's voice assistant Alexa in you smart speakers, just opening an innocent-looking web-link could let attackers install hacking skills on it and spy on your activities remotely.   Check Point cybersecurity researchers—Dikla Barda, Roman Zaikin and Yaara Shriki—today disclosed severe security vulnerabilities in Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant that could render it vulnerable to a number of malicious attacks. According to a new report released by Check...

The ransom for the decryptor key in the WastedLocker attack could have topped $10 million, sources said.   Garmin, the GPS and aviation tech specialist, reportedly negotiated with Evil Corp for an decryption key to unlock its files in the wake of a WastedLocker ransomware attack.   The attack, which started on July 23, knocked out Garmin’s fitness-tracker services, customer-support outlets and commercial aviation offerings such as flight-plan filing,...