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Euractiv and Reuters report: Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the country’s leading opposition party, has been hit by a major cyberattack and has taken parts of its IT-infrastructure off the grid as a precautionary measure, authorities said … Continue reading Germany’s Christian Democratic party hit by ‘serious’ cyberattack
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Fake pharmacies sell prescription-only drugs without a license and without requiring a valid prescription from a doctor. The storefronts are advertised to consumers through web searches, social media, and unsolicited spam emails. As you might expect, many of these platforms attempt to block known fake pharmacies.
Netcraft analysts have observed evidence of a 12-month spike in fake pharmacy campaigns using page.link (Firebase Dynamic Links), more than doubling since last year. Many of these campaigns bounce visitors through a series of redirects to disguise the eventual destination, inadvertently making it easy for fraudsters to hide malicious links in shortened URLs.
Fake pharmacies are a type of counterfeit online shopping website that market prescription drugs, often advertising them as well-known products from established pharmaceutical companies.
Usually operating outside the countries to which they’re selling, these stores are unlicensed and unregulated and will often include false accreditations and phony endorsements from reputable organizations to build perceived credibility.
The majority of fake pharmacies accept standard credit cards and PayPal, with some accepting cryptocurrency for a discount.
Figure 1 Extract from a fake pharmacy site, with spoofed endorsements
Some sites will simply steal payment details. However, unlike other fake online shopping websites, most fake pharmacies will deliver drugs to victims. These could be counterfeit, diluted, or expired drugs and may contain unexpected, potentially fatal ingredients.
Figure 2 Fake pharmacies sell unlicensed drugs without a prescription, often in very high quantities
Low-quality counterfeits can pose a serious threat to consumers’ health and legitimate pharmaceutical products, with buyers being driven away from real retailers by the lure of large savings and no prescription requirements.
As well as the risks to public health, fake pharmacies have a significant financial impact, with the World Health Organization estimating that $431 billion in drugs are counterfeited …
Continue reading Surge in fake pharmacy campaigns abusing Firebase link shortener
In the May 2024 survey we received responses from 1,097,398,145 sites across 268,137,699 domains and 12,898,459 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 4.4 million sites, 202,938 domains, and 26,168 web-facing computers.
Cloudflare experienced the largest gain of 4.4 million sites (+3.84%) this month, and now accounts for 10.8% (0.36pp) of sites seen by Netcraft. OpenResty made the next largest gain of 3.2 million sites (+2.91%).
nginx experienced the largest loss of 4.6 million sites (-1.92%) this month, reducing its market share to 21.5% (-0.51pp). Apache suffered the next largest loss, down by 2.2 million sites (-1.00%).
| Developer | April 2024 | Percent | May 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nginx | 240,853,969 | 22.04% | 236,239,936 | 21.53% | -0.51 |
| Apache | 219,442,734 | 20.08% | 217,239,604 | 19.80% | -0.28 |
| Cloudflare | 114,173,199 | 10.45% | 118,561,124 | 10.80% | 0.36 |
| OpenResty | 111,039,981 | 10.16% | 114,268,616 | 10.41% | 0.25 |
| Developer | April 2024 | Percent | May 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 38,954,840 | 20.18% | 37,106,437 | 19.17% | -1.01 |
| nginx | 34,523,025 | 17.88% | 34,944,050 | 18.06% | 0.17 |
| Cloudflare | 26,456,014 | 13.70% | 28,767,697 | 14.86% | 1.16 |
| 20,158,672 | 10.44% | 19,116,508 | 9.88% | -0.56 |
For more information see Active Sites.
| Developer | April 2024 | Percent | May 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | 227,710 | 22.77% | 228,120 | 22.81% | 0.04 |
| nginx | 205,397 |
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The Yomiuri Shimbun reports: A 25-year-old unemployed man from Kawasaki has been arrested for allegedly creating a computer virus by using interactive generative artificial intelligence available online. This is believed to be the first case in the nat… Continue reading Japan Man Arrested for Creating Virus Using Generative AI Systems; ‘I Thought I Could Do Anything if I Asked AI’
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The Mālama I Ke Ola Health Center Team discovered a breach on May 7 that they initially described as an IT or tech incident. They have now made it clearer that this was a cyberattack. In a statement on their website on May 23, they write: Aloha Patient… Continue reading Mālama I Ke Ola Health Center cyberattack affecting services
Ben Leonard and Chelsea Cirruzzo of Politico report: YOU’VE BEEN HACKED. NOW WHAT? Health care companies are retaining help — often from Silicon Valley — to manage ransomware attacks. The debilitating breaches at Change Healthcare, owned by UnitedHealt… Continue reading Negotiating with health care hackers
On September 25, 2023, Riverdale Mental Health d/b/a Mosaic Mental Health (“MOSAIC”) notified HHS of an incident that affected 7,281 patients. The incident was coded as a “hacking/IT incident” involving their network, but no fur… Continue reading Mosaic Mental Health notifies patients of breach