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A London council has warned residents their personal data may have been compromised after a healthcare provider was hit by a cyber attack. The City of London Corporation said it is working with NRS Healthcare to understand the extent of Read More …
U.S. mobile service provider Patriot Mobile fell victim to a security incident resulting in the leak of subscriber details including names, email addresses, zip codes, and account PINs, as reported by TechCrunch. The operator, Patriot Mobile, which boasts itself as Read More …
Federal authorities have arrested a 23-year-old Taiwanese national and charged him with running an online market that sold $100 million worth of illicit narcotics, including fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, LSD, and ketamine. The authorities said that for almost four years, Read More …
About 7500 staff and students have been caught up in a massive cyber attack at Western Sydney University. Police are investigating the breach, which the university says dates as far back as May 2023, when an unauthorised party got into Read More …
In February, a multinational company’s finance team member in Hong Kong made headlines after he transmitted HK$200 million (US$25 million) to cybercriminals who pretended to be the chief financial officer and other colleagues, using deepfake technology, in what the worker Read More …
No patron information was compromised in a recent ransomware attack against John R. Wood Christie’s International Real Estate by a cyber gang known as Medusa, according to the company. Medusa announced the attack on its site, claiming it had stolen Read More …
Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team has uncovered a new Linux backdoor developed by the North Korean Springtail espionage group (aka Kimsuky) that is linked to malware used in a recent campaign against organizations in South Korea. The backdoor (Linux.Gomir) appears to Read More …
In this post, Unt 42 researchers look at the types of embedded payloads that attackers leverage to abuse Microsoft OneNote files. Our analysis of roughly 6,000 malicious OneNote samples from WildFire reveals that these samples have a phishing-like theme where Read More …
More and more websites and services are making multi-factor-authentication (MFA) mandatory, which makes it much harder for cybercriminals to access your accounts. That’s a great thing. But as security evolves, so do cybercriminals who are always looking for new ways Read More …
A 2022 survey by Ernst & Young found that 71% of respondents in the mining sector had seen an increase in the number of disruptive attacks in the year leading up to the survey. “Leading mining companies in southern Africa Read More …