Major cybersecurity events on 29th June 2020 (Evening Post): Attackers hack E27, asks for donation in exchange for details about vulnerabilities. Maine Information and Analysis Center suffers data breach, leaks data. Evil Corp stopped from spreading ransomware, preventing attack on 30 major firms.Continue readingHackers sent explicit messages to breached list of students, Hidden Web Skimmers used to target ecommerce sites, and more
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Major cybersecurity events on 23rd June 2020 (Morning Post): New Zealand police apprehends Alexander Vinnik for fraud, freezes his assets. Online fraudsters target young shoppers, steals £17 million. Flaw in firmware allows attackers to evade security on home routers.Continue readingGoogle Analytics leveraged to steal credit cards, CLOP hits Indiabulls, demands ransom in a day, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 15th June 2020 (Evening Post): Australian beverages company and Japanese beverage giant Kirin’s subsidiary Lion infected with ransomware, disrupts manufacturing process. Magecart hacks accessories’ giant Claire’s, gains access to credit card data.Continue readingScammers blackmail website owners for ransom, Defragger bug defrags SSD Drives too often, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 10th June 2020 (Evening Post): Misconfigured S3 bucket that has Magecart, malicious redirector code, compromised. Fake SpaceX YouTube channels scam viewers out of $150K in bitcoin. Adobe and Intel patches vulnerabilities.Continue readingHacker breaches 300,000 Nintendo accounts, Malicious Android apps bypass Google security scans, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 19th May 2020 (evening post): PsyGenics, Inc. sends notice to potentially impacted customers after email incident. DoS attacks skyrocket, espionage dips according to Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report. Magecart malware stole card details, evaded security scans for 8 months.Continue reading9M EasyJet customers details exposed, Mirai, Hoaxcalls target Symantec, Bluetooth vulnerability exposes billions of devices, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 18th May 2020: Turla APT target diplomatic entities. Naikon returns, targets foreign affairs, science and technology ministries, with new malware. Wannabe ransomware operators arrested before hospital attacks. Several supercomputers across Europe hacked. Continue readingInterserve hacked, details of 100000 employees leaked, Massive data leak exposes 115M Pakistani users’ data, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 12th May 2020: 4000 Android apps that use Google’s Firebase expose users’ data. Credit card stealers, MageCart infect 1236 websites. Google removes over 800 creepware apps from Play Store. US exposes campaigns by North Korean hacker group, HIDDEN COBRA.Continue readingMagellan Health suffers ransomware attack, Hackers steal 756GB data of Celebrities, Stealthy Astaroth hides command servers in YouTube, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 2nd April 2020: COVID-themed scams surge. Zoom’s popularity adversely impacts the remote conferencing giant through various malicious schemes. Facebook disables Instagram, Facebook impersonators’ accounts. New class of Windows vulnerabilities discovered.Continue readingTwitter bug caches private files, Facebook takes down fake accounts, Mandrake targets Aussies, MakeFrame targets SMBs, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 18th March: From registering several new domains to building a malicious tracker app, deceptive Coronavirus scammers are at large, making the most of the current situation. New TrickBot tool employed to disrupt PCs and telecommunications. Continue readingMagecart target NutriBullet, Coronavirus app asks users for ransom, and more
Major cyber security incidents on 17th March 2020: Scammers use COVID-19 as a guise to spread malware and phishing mails. APT36 calls coronavirus a ‘golden opportunity’ to distribute Crimson RAT. MacOS bundleware installer capable of much more than a normal installation software.Continue readingCOVID-19 malware and phishing scams, fake Google domains, and more