Collaborate Disseminate
Brazilian hackers have developed a drive-by download attack leveraging the inherent trust in the Google name. A banking trojan known as LoadPCBanker is deployed using the file cabinets template in Google sites as a delivery vehicle.
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A recent survey from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC, part of GCHQ), conducted by Ipsos Mori, suggests that 52% consider their most prevalent online security consideration to be protecting their privacy, while 51% consider it to be the lo… Continue reading UK’s NCSC Suggests Automatic Blocking of Common Passwords
Dallas, Texas-based firm EmCare Inc disclosed on Saturday that a number of employees’ email accounts had been accessed, potentially exposing personal information of almost 60,000 people, including 31,000 patients.
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Facebook has admitted to uploading the email contacts of up to 1.5 million users over a period of three years without gaining either the user or the contacts’ prior consent.
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With growing concern over DNS manipulation attacks, details on a new elite state-sponsored DNS hijacking campaign have been released. Called operation Sea Turtle, researchers believe that at least 40 different organizations across 13 countries have bee… Continue reading State-Sponsored Hackers Use Sophisticated DNS Hijacking in Ongoing Attacks
Bad bots are a continuing problem. Good bots, those that perform welcome and benign activities — such as search engine crawlers like Googlebot and Bingbot — are welcome. Bad bots, those that scrape and steal content, mine for competitive data, undert… Continue reading Bad Bots Steal Accounts, Content and Skew the Web Ecosystem
Sunnyvale, CA-based Fortinet agreed a deal worth $545,000 to settle a whistleblower lawsuit brought by the U.S. government and Yuxin ‘Jay’ Fang. The lawsuit alleged that Fortinet had supplied mislabeled goods manufactured by countries including China, … Continue reading Fortinet Settles Whistleblower Case for $545,000
Brazil does not have a highly organized hacker underground in the same way as Russia and eastern Europe. Most of the malicious activity by Brazilian actors is within Brazil against Brazilians. The primary reasons are geography and language, and very st… Continue reading Brazilian Hackers Described as Adaptable Pirates
Starting in early 2019, Ukrainian government entities have been targeted by a spear-phishing campaign that appears to be a cyber espionage campaign emanating from the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR).
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Garfield County, Utah, was recently affected by ransomware. Local government is an increasingly attractive target for criminals because of its high dependence on information technology, and generally poor security. Elected officials are under constant … Continue reading Utah County Struck by Ransomware