REvil is back. Misconfiguration with major effect. Mining Monero. Judgments against market-rigging hackers. A FIN7 operator is sentenced.

REvil is back. Misconfiguration with major effect. Mining Monero. Judgments against market-rigging hackers. A FIN7 operator is sentenced.

By N2K Networks

REvil hits a Brazilian medical diagnostics company and a British fashion retailer. A misconfigured cloud database exposes millions of WordPress user records. A new cryptojacker is deploying XMrig to mine Monero. A judgment is issued against a hacker and one of the traders he worked with to trade securities on non-public information. Johannes Ullrich from SANS on server site request forgery and errors in validating IP addresses. Our guest is Tom Patterson from Unisys reacts to the DOJ launching a ransomware taskforce. A FIN7 operator is sentenced to seven years. For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing: https://www.thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/10/122
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