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Ransomware Attack Leads LA School to Fork Over $28K in Ransom

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A school located in Los Angeles County, California has paid computer criminals 28,000 USD after it suffered a ransomware attack. Officials at Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC) came to the decision after a ransomware infection left them with no way to recover their organization’s encrypted data. As the school explains in an update (PDF): “In […]… Read More

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Email Slip-Up Exposes 60,000 Bank Customers’ Account Details

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A large Australian bank exposed 60,000 of its customers’ account details after it inadvertently sent an email to the wrong recipient. National Australia Bank (NAB), which was one of the targets of sophisticated Android malware in March 2016, disclosed the data leak in December. It appears a former NAB employee sent confirmation emails to 60,000 […]… Read More

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Fraudsters Using Fake Encrypted PDF to Phish for Victims’ Credentials

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Attackers are using fake encrypted PDF documents to try to phish for unsuspecting users’ login credentials. John Bambenek, a handler at SANS Internet Storm Center, disclosed the phishing campaign on 4 January. He found that the offending fraudsters are targeting users who lack a high level of security awareness. As he told Threatpost: “This is […]… Read More

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70% of Europeans Aren’t Willing to Sacrifice Privacy for New Services, Survey Reveals

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It’s 2017, which means we’re less than a year and a half out from the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) taking full effect. The European Commission has a lot to do in the meantime. One of its most pressing objectives is to adapt the current rules, which are enshrined in European Union’s ePrivacy Directive, […]… Read More

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Tech Support Scam Creates Series of Email Drafts to Crash Macs

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A tech support scam uses a series of email drafts to crash computers that are running an older version of MacOS. Jérôme Segura, lead malware intelligence analyst at Malwarebytes, first detected a website associated with the scam during the 2016 holiday season. Tech support scam for iOS with season’s colours (safari-get[.]com). pic.twitter.com/xtTBCISNRp — Jérôme Segura […]… Read More

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Tech Support Scam Creates Series of Email Drafts to Crash Macs

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A tech support scam uses a series of email drafts to crash computers that are running an older version of MacOS. Jérôme Segura, lead malware intelligence analyst at Malwarebytes, first detected a website associated with the scam during the 2016 holiday season. Tech support scam for iOS with season’s colours (safari-get[.]com). pic.twitter.com/xtTBCISNRp — Jérôme Segura […]… Read More

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Are You Hiring? GoldenEye Ransomware Wants to Meet Your HR Department

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GoldenEye ransomware wants to interview with your company’s HR department, but it’s not interested in filling an open position. For this new campaign, GoldenEye has assumed a job application theme to target German speakers in companies’ HR departments. The authors of the ransomware, which is an updated form of Petya, know it’s part of HR […]… Read More

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