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Trend says hackers have weaponized SpringShell to install Mirai malware

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers on Friday said that hackers are exploiting the recently discovered SpringShell vulnerability to successfully infect vulnerable Internet of Things devices with Mirai, an open source piece of malware that wrangles routers and other network-connected devices into sprawling botnets. When SpringShell (also known as Spring4Shell) came to light last Sunday, some...

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Ransomware sent North Carolina A&T University scrambling to restore services

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) North Carolina A&T State University, the largest historically black college in the US, University was recently struck by a ransomware Group called ALPHV, sending university staff into a scramble to restore services last month. “It’s affecting a lot of my classes, especially since I do take a couple of coding classes,...