Major cybersecurity events on 19th November 2020 (Evening Post): Capcom confirms Ragnar Locker ransomware attack, Egregor ransomware bombards victims’ printers with ransom notes, Trump Fires CISA Director Chris Krebs.Continue readingTrump Fires CISA Director Chris Krebs, Egregor ransomware bombards victims’ printers with ransom notes, and more
Category: Cryptojacking
Major cybersecurity events on 6th October 2020 (Morning Post): TeamTNT adds sophisticated cryptojacking malware variant Black-T to its arsenal. SilentFade steals Facebook credentials and $4 million in ad frauds. Slack outage causes delay, error and blank screens across the globe.Continue readingHackers can jailbreak Apple’s T2 security chip, John McAfee arrested, charged with tax evasion, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 17th September 2020 (Morning Post): In multiple incidents US charges hackers and cyber criminals for espionage, global attacks, and cryptocurrency phishing spree. Hacker finds former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot’s passport number from Instagram post.Continue readingIranian hackers charged for cyber espionage, Warner Music Group faces lawsuit over data breach, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 10th September 2020 (Morning Post): Hackers steal $5.4 million Slovakian cryptocurrency exchange ETERBASE. Fake alert scams target mobile networks and users, reports Sophos. Zeppelin ransomware adds a new trojan downloader to its arsenal.Continue readingBlackbaud data breach affects Inova Health Systems, NexusGuard reports massive rise in DDoS campaigns, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 8th September 2020 (Morning Post): Chinese hacker group Winnti attacks five Russian developers of banking software and a construction company. Columbia University academics detect crypto bugs in 306 popular Android apps, unpatched. Continue readingHackers steal 738 GB of Service NSW customer data, Netwalker demands $4M after attacking Argentinian govt., and more
Major cybersecurity events on 28th August 2020 (Evening Post): Fake Android pop-up notifications affect Google and later Microsoft. Email service provider Sendgrid users’ passwords cracked, sold, abused to send phishing, email malware attack. AWS S3 bucket exposes NSW drivers’ licences.Continue readingRiskIQ analyses 30 COVID-19 spam emails per minute, Exit scam takes down Empire Market, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 28th August 2020 (Morning Post): 28,000 printers hijacked by researchers, suggests that 56% of exposed printers can be easily hijacked. Lemon_Duck cryptominer malware targets Linux devices. 350m decrypted email addresses exposed on unsecured server.Continue reading16K Webex accounts deleted: Cisco employee pleads guilty, Elon Musk confirms Russian attempt to target Tesla, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 25th August 2020 (Evening Post): FINRA warns: Threat actors targeting users with fake sites try to steal sensitive information. Lazarus Group leverages LinkedIn job advertisements to target cryptocurrency firm. DeathStalker APT group targets financial sector.Continue readingDenmark top intelligence chief suspended for spying on citizens, Indian ticket vendor suffers breach, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 20th August 2020 (Evening Post): Binance and Ukraine police arrest crypto hackers in a “Bulletproof Exchanger Project.” REvil/Sodinokibi ransomware specifically targets food and beverages organizations. IBM DB2 memory leak gives access to sensitive data.Continue readingExperian recovers, deletes data from 24m users, Jefferson Parish school suffers data breach, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 24th July 2020 (Evening Post): About 280,000 Instacart customer records hacked and put for sale on the dark web. Prometei uses NSA exploits to steal data and mine Monero. Twitter hackers read private messages of 36 high-profile accounts.Continue readingTitle Insurance Company exposes millions of personal information, US registers a spike in ransomware attacks, and more