January 13, 2020 Critical Citrix Vulnerability Under Active Attack A critical vulnerability in the Citrix Application Delivery Controller and Citrix Gateway is being exploited in real world attacks. The vulnerability was discovered by security ... Read more
January 6, 2020 Travelex Cyberattack Forces Shutdown of Online Currency Services The world’s largest foreign exchange company, Travelex, experienced a cyberattack on New Year’s Eve which took its website out of action and affected companies such ... Read more
January 3, 2020 Ransomware Victim Takes Legal Action Against Attackers and ISP Hosting its Stolen Data Southwire, one of the largest manufacturers of cabling and wire in the United States, has taken legal action against the unknown individuals behind the attack ... Read more
December 23, 2019 Data of 267 Million Facebook Users Exposed Online A database containing the user IDs, names, and telephone numbers of 267 million Facebook users has been exposed online for a period of around two ... Read more
December 18, 2019 Up to 15 Million Individuals Potentially Affected by Ransomware Attack on Medical Testing Firm LifeLabs, one of the largest medical testing and diagnostics firms in Canada, has been attacked with ransomware. The attack is believed to have occurred on ... Read more
December 17, 2019 Unsecured Web Filtering Database Exposed Private Browsing Histories and PII A database containing around 1 million web browsing records of internet users has been left unprotected online. The 890GB database contained daily logs of internet ... Read more
December 16, 2019 New Orleans Recovering from Ransomware Attack On Friday December 13, 2019, the City of New Orleans suffered a cyberattack which forced it to shut down its servers while the incident was ... Read more
December 12, 2019 100 Dental Practices Affected by Ransomware Attack on Managed Service Provider An Englewood, CO-based Complete Technology Solutions (CTS) Colorado IT firm that specializes in supplying managed IT services to over 100 dentist practices has been infiltrated ... Read more
December 12, 2019 Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Experiences Phishing Attack Cheyenne Regional Medical Center in Wyoming has recently became aware that patient data may have been illegally obtained due to a phishing attack identified in ... Read more
December 10, 2019 Flaw in Ryuk Ransomware May Make Data Recovery Impossible Disaster strikes. Your business has been attacked and ransomware has been deployed. You decide to pay the ransom to ensure a quick recovery, only to ... Read more
December 10, 2019 Ransomware Attacks on Network Attached Storage (NAS) Devices on the Rise A hacker succeeds in gaining access to the computer systems of a business and ransomware is deployed, but there is a fair chance that the ... Read more
December 9, 2019 Ransomware Attack on IT Company Impacts more than 100 Dental Practices More than 100 dental practices have had essential files encrypted as a result of a ransomware attack on an IT service provider. On November 25, ... Read more
December 5, 2019 Elaborate Man-in-the-Middle Attack Diverts $1 Million Payment to Israeli Startup $1 million in venture capital funding intended for an Israeli startup was diverted to an attacker-controlled bank account in an elaborate wire transfer email scam. ... Read more
December 3, 2019 Microsoft Issues Warning About Spear Phishing Attacks Phishing attacks have been increasing steadily throughout 2019. Most of the phishing emails being sent are part of large campaigns sent randomly using huge lists ... Read more
November 29, 2019 Google Sent 12,000 Warnings About State-Sponsored Phishing and Hacking Campaigns in Q3, 2019 A recent report from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has shed light on the extent to which government-sponsored hacking and phishing campaigns are being conducted. ... Read more
November 26, 2019 Novel Digital Skimming Attack Targets Retailers Using Third-Party Payment Service Platforms A novel digital skimming attack method has been uncovered by researchers at Malwarebytes, which spoofs third-party secure payment pages used by many online retailers to ... Read more
November 20, 2019 Phishing Attacks at Highest Level Since 2016 A new report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) shows phishing attacks are occurring at levels not seen since 2016. The quarterly phishing reports from ... Read more
November 20, 2019 UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine and Starling Physicians Report Phishing Attacks University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine has been hit by a phishing attack in which the protected health information of 3,716 patients ... Read more
November 16, 2019 California Addiction Treatment Center Hit by Cyber Attack An AWS S3 storage bucket owned by Sunshine Behavioral Health, LLC, a San Juan Capistrano, CA-based organization of drug and alcohol addiction rehabilitation centers, has ... Read more
November 14, 2019 PureLocker Ransomware: A New Ransomware Threat Targeting Enterprise Servers Security researchers at IBM X-Force and Intezer have identified a new form of ransomware that is being used in targeted attacks on enterprise servers. The ... Read more
November 14, 2019 Loyola Medicine and Main Street Clinical Associates Report PHI Theft Incidents Main Street Clinical Associates, PA., in Durham, NC has contacted certain patients that some of their protected health information was stored on devices that were ... Read more
November 8, 2019 MegaCortex Ransomware Ups the Ante with Threat of Publication of Stolen Data The developers of MegaCortex ransomware have released an updated version of their file-encrypting malware. The latest version incorporates a new feature to hamper recovery without ... Read more
November 6, 2019 Targeted Ransomware Attacks Hit Spanish Companies Hard A wave of ransomware attacks has been reported in Spain with several appearing to have been attacked almost simultaneously on Monday. One of the attacked ... Read more
November 4, 2019 Mass BlueKeep RDP Attacks Detected Spreading Cryptcurrency Miners The BlueKeep remote code execution vulnerability in Windows Remote Desktop Services is being exploited in real world attacks. The vulnerability – CVE-2019-0708 – can be ... Read more
November 3, 2019 Business Associate Phishing Attack Impacts TennCare and Florida Blue Members More healthcare organizations have revealed they have been impacted by a data breach at Magellan Health National Imaging Associates, a business associate of several HIPAA-covered ... Read more
October 28, 2019 FBI Issues Warning Following Increase in E-Skimming Attacks The FBI has issued a warning following an increase in e-skimming attacks on small and medium sized businesses and government agencies. E-skimming is the term ... Read more
October 28, 2019 7.5 Million Adobe Creative Cloud Users Warned of Data Breach Adobe has announced that a vulnerability has exposed the private information of approximately 7.5 million Adobe Creative Cloud users. The information was contained in an ... Read more
October 24, 2019 145 Month Jail Term for U.S. Superior Court Hacker Who Used LASC System to Send Phishing Emails In July 2017, Oriyomi Sadiq Aloba, 33, of Katy, TX, hacked into the computer system of the Los Angeles Superior Court (LASC). Aloba conducted a ... Read more
October 23, 2019 NordVPN Discloses 2018 Security Breach NordVPN is one of the most popular and well-known VPN services on the market. It is used by many people to ensure privacy when using ... Read more
October 21, 2019 Free Decyptor for STOP Ransomware Released Researchers at New Zealand-based cybersecurity firm Emsisoft have released a free decryptor for STOP ransomware. STOP ransomware is primarily used to attack consumers rather than ... Read more