Meta announced it filed a lawsuit against two individuals from Nigeria, for scams on Facebook. The suit is a joint action with the Chime, a digital banking company. The first joint action against scams on Facebook This is the first joint complaint that Meta files with…
Dominic Raab has issued a warning to Russia about the criminals who have been using ransomware against businesses. The foreign secretary called Russia responsible to take the necessary steps. ”Russia has a responsibility to prosecute those criminals and gangs behind…
Attackers use Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) to implement malicious payloads on Windows computers. Of course, they do this stealthily. A recent research proves that attackers use an unknown persistence mechanism which shows they used BITS to launch…
Home security systems put people at risk, according to a recent F.B.I. announcement. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation mentioned that attackers hack these systems and set them up to place fake emergency calls. The method is called “swatting.”
What is swatting and…
The number of aggressive security attacks on both the biotech and pharmaceutical industry have risen by 50%, in 2020.
According to a new report from BlueVoyant, these things also happen as recent news give more hope regarding the development of COVID-19 vaccines.
Thus…
Carrotball – a malware downloader, harboured in spear phishing emails targeted a U.S. government agency. Researchers consider that the emails came from the Konni Group APT. The campaign, called “Fractured Statue”, involved six unique malicious document lures, as…
Authorities detected 10.000 attacks per minute from Iran in just two days, in Texas (USA). Governor Greg Abbott announced that these targeted the state agency networks.
According to a news report, during a a meeting of the Domestic Terrorism Task Force, Abbott pointed to a…
Indian users were third most exposed to Formjacking attacks, after those from US and Australia, according to a recent survey conducted by Symantec. The company announced it has blocked over 2.3 million formjacking attacks all around the world, in the second quarter of this…
Jens Stoltenberg, NATO secretary-general, wrote that cyber-attacks “can affect every one of us”. The official mentioned that “For NATO, a serious cyber-attack could trigger Article 5 of our founding treaty. This is our collective defense commitment where an attack…
In an unfortunate incident of cyberbullying in Florida, a young 12-year-old girl, hanged herself to death.
According to media reports, the girl faced online harassment by two 12-year-old who spread unsubstantial rumors about the victim having sexually transmitted diseases…
