May 18, 2020 REvil Gang Releases 2GB of Celebrity Data and Increases Ransom Demand to $2 Million Last week, a celebrity New York law firm – Grubman Shire Meiselas and Sacks – whose client list includes Lady Gaga, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, U2, ... Read more
May 13, 2020 COVID-19 Themed Cyberattacks Have Increased by 30% in the Past Two Weeks There has been a sharp increase in the number of COVID-19 themed cyberattacks in the past two weeks according to Check Point. Check Point has ... Read more
May 12, 2020 13% of Organizations Have Experienced a Cyberattack During the COVID-19 Pandemic The transition from a largely office-based workforce to having most employees working from home has left many organizations exposed to cyberattacks. While having employees working ... Read more
May 11, 2020 Cognizant Ransomware Attack Expected to Cost Between $50 and $70 Million The ransomware attack on the IT services company Cognizant is expected to cost between $50 million and $70 million, according to a recent financial report ... Read more
May 7, 2020 InfinityBlack Hacking Group Dismantled The InfinityBlack hacking group has been dismantled following an operation by law enforcement agencies in Switzerland and Poland. The InfinityBlack hacking group sold millions of ... Read more
May 7, 2020 Hacker Attacks More than 900,000 Vulnerable WordPress Sites in a Week More than 900,000 WordPress websites have been attacked by a hacker over the space of about a week, according to a recent report from the ... Read more
May 3, 2020 Losses Caused by Data Breaches Lead to Shareholder Suing LabCorp A LabCorp shareholder has initiated a legal action against LabCorp and its executives and directors in relation the loss in share value following two cyberattacks ... Read more
April 30, 2020 Clop Ransomware Gang Publishes ExecuPharm Data After Non-Payment of Ransom The U.S. pharmaceutical company ExecuPharm recently announced it suffered a ransomware attack on March 13, in which certain corporate and employee information was compromised. The ... Read more
April 22, 2020 Four Zero Day Vulnerabilities in IBM Data Risk Manager Have Been Publicly Disclosed Four zero-day vulnerabilities have been identified in IBM Data Risk Manager (IDRM) which could allow the downloading of arbitrary files and, if chained together, remote ... Read more
April 20, 2020 IT Services Firm Cognizant Suffers Maze Ransomware Attack The IT services firm Cognizant experienced a ransomware attack over the weekend that has affected its internal systems and has caused some disruption for its ... Read more
April 10, 2020 Travelex Paid Ransomware Gang $2.3 Million for Keys to Unlock Encrypted Files The Sodinokibi ransomware attack on Travelex that started on New Year’s Eve and caused weeks of disruption was resolved by paying the ransom demand. The ... Read more
March 28, 2020 Multiple Data Breaches Reported There has been a number of healthcare data breaches made known to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) during the past few weeks. AffordaCare ... Read more
March 26, 2020 Hacked News Sites Used to Spread Malware Disguised as Google Chrome Update If you visit a website and are advised that you need to update Google Chrome, do not download the update. A campaign has been identified ... Read more
March 24, 2020 COVID19 Pandemic Leads to Massive Increase in WHO Cyberattacks It has been revealed that the World Health Organization has suffered a surge in the number of hacking attempts on its databases in the last ... Read more
March 24, 2020 Database Containing Extensive Information of 200 Million Americans Exposed Online A database on the Google Cloud platform containing 800 gigabytes of data and over 200 million user records has been misconfigured and was exposed online, ... Read more
March 12, 2020 Critical SMBv3 Vulnerability Leaked: Microsoft Patch and Mitigations Update 03/12/20: Microsoft has updated its security advisory and released a patch for CVE-2020-0796 Windows 10 and Windows Server 1903 / Server 1909: Microsoft released ... Read more
March 12, 2020 Manual Ransomware Attacks Increasing in Sophistication and Pose Growing Threat to Businesses Automated ransomware attack techniques such as those utilized by the threat actors behind WannaCry and NotPetya certainly have potential to cause massive disruption, but human-operated ... Read more
March 11, 2020 AMD CPUs Vulnerable to Two New Side Channel Attacks All AMD processor manufactured between 2011 and 2019 are vulnerable to two new side channel attacks, according to researchers at Graz University of Technology, some ... Read more
March 9, 2020 Email Security Breaches at Relation Insurance & Rainbow Hospice Care Relational Insurance Inc., an insurance brokerage company operating as Relation Insurance Services of Georgia (RISG), suffered an email security breach in August 2019. An unauthorized ... Read more
March 5, 2020 At Least $144.35 Million Has Been Paid by Victims of Ransomware Attacks Since 2013 Figures from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) show that at least $144.35 million in Bitcoin was paid by victims of ransomware attacks between ... Read more
March 3, 2020 Final Approval Given for Quest Diagnostics 2016 Data Breach Settlement A federal judge has given final approval to a settlement in a class action lawsuit filed against the New Jersey-based medical laboratory firm, Quest Diagnostics ... Read more
February 17, 2020 Phishing Attack Results in $2.6 Million Loss for Puerto Rico Government A Puerto Rican government employee has been duped by a phishing scam and wired more than $2.6 million to an account controlled by the scammers. ... Read more
February 14, 2020 At Least 15.1 Billion Records Were Exposed in Data Breaches in 2019 A new report from Risk Based Security has revealed 15.1 billion records were exposed in publicly reported data breaches in 2019 – A 284% increase ... Read more
February 13, 2020 BEC Attacks Account for More Than Half of All Losses to Cybercrime Business email compromise attacks are the most financially damaging form of cybercrime, according to the 2019 Internet Crime Report from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint ... Read more
February 10, 2020 Emotet Now Spreading by Hacking Nearby WiFi Networks A new variant of Emotet spreads like a worm sending copies of itself to computers connected to WiFi networks within range of an infected device. ... Read more
February 4, 2020 Ashley Madison Extortion Scams Show Repercussions from Data Breaches Can Last Forever Almost five years ago, Ashley Madison experienced a massive data breach. Hackers stole the information from 32 million accounts and the data was dumped online. ... Read more
January 30, 2020 Avast and AVG Customers’ Sensitive Browsing Data Will No Longer Be Collected and Sold to Third Parties There’s some good news today for users of Avast and AVG antivirus products. Personal search histories, clicks, and details of online purchases will no longer ... Read more
January 27, 2020 Vulnerable Citrix Servers Targeted by Ransomware Gangs Multiple threat actors are conducting attacks on Citrix servers that have not had the patch applied to correct the CVE-2019-19781 vulnerability. The flaw affects the ... Read more
January 23, 2020 Microsoft Database of 250 Million Records Exposed Online Microsoft has announced that one of its databases has been accidentally exposed online. The database could over the internet without the need for authentication. The ... Read more
January 16, 2020 $1.38 Billion Settlement Reached in Equifax Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit A $1.38 billion settlement has been reached to resolve the Equifax data breach class action lawsuit filed on behalf of victims of the 2017 data ... Read more