Nissan Finance Canada Suffers Data Breach — Notifies 1.13 Million Customers

It’s the last month of this year, but possibly not the last data breach report.

Nissan warns of a possible data breach of personal information on its customers who financed their vehicles through Nissan Canada Finance and INFINITI Financial Services C… Continue reading Nissan Finance Canada Suffers Data Breach — Notifies 1.13 Million Customers

Romanian Police Arrest 5 People for Spreading CTB Locker and Cerber Ransomware

Romanian police have arrested five individuals suspected of infecting tens of thousands of computers across Europe and the United States in recent years by spreading two infamous ransomware families—Cerber and CTB Locker.

Under Operation Bakovia—a maj… Continue reading Romanian Police Arrest 5 People for Spreading CTB Locker and Cerber Ransomware

Greedy North Korean Hackers Targeting Cryptocurrencies and Point-of-Sale Terminals

The North Korean hacking group has turned greedy.

Security researchers have uncovered a new widespread malware campaign targeting cryptocurrency users, believed to be originated from Lazarus Group, a state-sponsored hacking group linked to the North K… Continue reading Greedy North Korean Hackers Targeting Cryptocurrencies and Point-of-Sale Terminals

This New Android Malware Can Physically Damage Your Phone

Due to the recent surge in cryptocurrency prices, not only hackers but also legitimate website administrators are increasingly using JavaScript-based cryptocurrency miners to monetize by levying the CPU power of your PC to mine Bitcoin or other cryptoc… Continue reading This New Android Malware Can Physically Damage Your Phone

FCC Just Killed Net Neutrality—What Does This Mean? What Next?

Net neutrality is DEAD—3 out of 5 federal regulators voted Thursday to hand control of the future of the Internet to cable and telecommunication companies, giving them powers to speed up service for websites they favor or slow down others.

As proposed… Continue reading FCC Just Killed Net Neutrality—What Does This Mean? What Next?

Three Hackers Plead Guilty to Creating IoT-based Mirai DDoS Botnet

The U.S. federal officials have arrested three hackers who have pleaded guilty to computer-crimes charges for creating and distributing Mirai botnet that crippled some of the world’s biggest and most popular websites by launching the massive DDoS attac… Continue reading Three Hackers Plead Guilty to Creating IoT-based Mirai DDoS Botnet

Collection of 1.4 Billion Plain-Text Leaked Passwords Found Circulating Online

Hackers always first go for the weakest link to quickly gain access to your online accounts.

Online users habit of reusing the same password across multiple services gives hackers opportunity to use the credentials gathered from a data breach to break… Continue reading Collection of 1.4 Billion Plain-Text Leaked Passwords Found Circulating Online

Android Flaw Lets Hackers Inject Malware Into Apps Without Altering Signatures

Millions of Android devices are at serious risk of a newly disclosed critical vulnerability that allows attackers to secretly overwrite legitimate applications installed on your smartphone with their malicious versions.

Dubbed Janus, the vulnerability… Continue reading Android Flaw Lets Hackers Inject Malware Into Apps Without Altering Signatures

Process Doppelgänging: New Malware Evasion Technique Works On All Windows Versions

A team of security researchers has discovered a new malware evasion technique that could help malware authors defeat most of the modern antivirus solutions and forensic tools.

Dubbed Process Doppelgänging, the new fileless code injection technique tak… Continue reading Process Doppelgänging: New Malware Evasion Technique Works On All Windows Versions

Largest Crypto-Mining Exchange Hacked; Over $70 Million in Bitcoin Stolen

Bitcoin is breaking every record—after gaining 20% jump last week, Bitcoin price just crossed the $14,800 mark in less than 24 hours—and there can be no better reason for hackers to put all of their efforts to steal skyrocketing cryptocurrency.

NiceHa… Continue reading Largest Crypto-Mining Exchange Hacked; Over $70 Million in Bitcoin Stolen