Collaborate Disseminate
Google has added a new real-time app scanning capability to Google Play Protect in order to help it better protect against malicious apps installed from outside the official app store.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading Google hopes to better fight malicious apps with real-time scanning on Android devices
The personal information of more than 815 million people in India has reportedly been leaked online.
According to local media reports, hackers have offered for sale the personally identifiable information (PII) – including that found on Aadhaar iden… Continue reading India’s biggest data breach? Hacking gang claims to have stolen 815 million people’s personal information
A Vietnamese cybercrime gang is being blamed for a malware campaign that has seen bogus adverts posted on LinkedIn, pretending to be related to jobs at computer memory and gaming accessories firm Corsair.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire Stat… Continue reading Phony Corsair job vacancy targets LinkedIn users with DarkGate malware
It’s all too easy sometimes to imagine that a cyber attack is confined to the digital world, and that – although disruptive – it may not have serious consequences in real life.
Maybe the attack which happened last week in New York will make you thin… Continue reading Ambulances diverted after New York hospitals hit by cyber attack
A high profile French basketball team has fallen victim to the NoEscape ransomware-as-a-service group, who claim to have stolen 32 GB of data including sensitive personal information about the club’s star players.
Read more in my article on the Hot … Continue reading ASVEL basketball club slam dunked by NoEscape ransomware gang, data stolen
Spanish police have arrested 34 suspected members of a criminal gang that are alleged to have run a variety of scams to steal data from over four million people.
Law enforcement agents across the country took part in 16 searches that not only seized… Continue reading Spanish police make 34 arrests, dismantling cybercriminal gang that stole 4 million people’s data
Golem, the hacker who leaked the data of one million Ashkenazi Jews from the 23andMe ancestry service earlier this month has now released 4.1 million more genetic data profiles.
The hacker claims they’ve included details of “the wealthiest people li… Continue reading Millions of new 23andMe genetic data profiles leak on cybercrime forum
A former US Navy IT manager has been sentenced to five years and five months in prison after illegally hacking a database containing personally identifiable information (PII) and selling it on the dark web.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire St… Continue reading Ex-Navy IT manager jailed for selling people’s data on the dark web
Plastic surgeries have been warned that they are being targeted by cybercriminals plotting to steal sensitive data – ncluding patients’ medical records and photographs – that will be later used for extortion.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire… Continue reading Plastic surgeries warned by the FBI that they are being targeted by cybercriminals
Over the weekend rumours circulated on social networks of an unpatched security hole in the Signal messaging app that could allow a remote hacker to seize control of your smartphone.
But were they true?
Read more in my article on the Hot for Secu… Continue reading Signal debunks online rumours of zero-day security vulnerability