Collaborate Disseminate
A credential stuffing attack targeting Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) accounts has forced the government tax collector to suspend its online services over the weekend. The compromised accounts were linked to the GCKey portal, a system used by 30 federal d… Continue reading Canada Revenue Agency Discloses Credential Stuffing Attack on 5,500 Service Accounts
Bitdefender Antispam Lab spotted an amusing extortion campaign yesterday. While many extortion scams use petty scare tactics to fool recipients into paying up, you can’t be worried if you don’t understand the scammer’s e-mail. Even though the subject o… Continue reading Poor Grammar Makes For a Poor Extortion Campaign; ’You Under Attack‘ Pay Us ’Before Make Drama’
The second-largest pharmacy chain in the US recently disclosed a data breach that may have compromised the personal health information (PHI) of more than 72,000 individuals across the United States. According to Walgreens spokesman Jim Cohn, prescripti… Continue reading Walgreens Discloses Data Breach Impacting Personal Health Information of More Than 72,000 Customers
YouTube removed nearly 2 million channels in the first quarter of 2020, 85% of which were terminated due to the promotion of scams, misinformation, and, in some cases, for spreading malware. A popular pastime for 2 billion unique monthly users, it come… Continue reading 85% of all YouTube Channels Removed in Q1 Flagged Over Malicious or Fraudulent Content
In the last two weeks, Bitdefender telemetry has picked up a spam campaign leveraging the Coca-Cola Company name. The subject lines ranged from “COCA-COLA LOTTERY ORGANIZATION” to “Coca Cola Email Draw UK 2020 -Coca Cola Lucky Winner … Continue reading Scam Alert: Coca-Cola Scam Giveaways are After Your Personal Information
Cloud breaches continue to riddle organizations’ threat landscape, with misconfigured cloud storage services and poor security practices leading to more than 200 breaches in the past two years, according to the latest Accurics report.
The po… Continue reading Cloud Breaches to Become Faster and Bigger, Research Suggests
A recent BBB scam warning sheds light on how scam artists, posing as US government officials, lure would-be immigrants to the US with the prospect of receiving one of the 50,000 visas granted by the Diversity Visa Program. In March 2020, the US Departm… Continue reading BBB Warns of Scammers Targeting Immigrants Aspiring to a US Visa
Capital One Financial Corp has agreed to pay an $80 million penalty after the bank suffered a massive data breach that affected more than 100 million customer records in July 2019. The breach was the result of an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket that housed … Continue reading Capitol One to Pay $80 Million Fine After 2019 Data Breach
Canon Inc., a Japanese multinational corporation specialized in optical and imaging products, has allegedly fallen victim to a ransomware attack deployed by the infamous Maze group. According to BleepingComputer, which broke the story, Canon’s IT… Continue reading Canon Hit by Maze Ransomware Operators; 10TB of Data Allegedly Stolen
Summit Medical Associates disclosed on August 4 that a ransomware attack earlier this year may have compromised personal information of patients and affiliates. According to a data breach notification, Summit discovered that it became unable to access … Continue reading Summit Medical Associates Discloses Ransomware Attack; Patient and Affiliate Information Potentially Impacted