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A Citibank Phishing Scam Attempts to Extract Personal Information
Yet another phishing scam targeting Citibank customers was doing the rounds recently. It was discovered by a researcher going by the Twitter handle MalwareHunterTeam, and other cybersecurity sources also reported on... Read more
Users of Tomato Routers Are Urged to Strengthen Passwords, or They Could Be Breached by Hackers
Certain cybercriminal activities are all about scale. If you want to launch a noteworthy DDoS attack, send large quantities of spam, or generate a wallet full of bitcoins with the help of a cryptojacking campaign, for... Read more
Hackers Used an E-Skimmer on HannaAndersson.com to Collect Sensitive Data, and Now It's Sold Online
Sometimes, cybercriminals want to make their presence known. In a ransomware attack, for example, you learn that something's wrong as soon as your files become unusable, and your screen displays the ransom note. In... Read more
Microsoft Has Failed to Protect 250 Million Customer Support Logs
It may not look like it, but big tech giants never sit still. Sometimes, the changes are invisible to the millions of users, but behind the scenes, IT companies constantly update and tweak their internal procedures to... Read more
49 Million Business Records Are Sold Online After The LimeLeads Elasticsearch Server Data Breach
Those of you who follow cybersecurity news closely are probably getting pretty tired of hearing about the next in a very long line of companies that have put a huge amount of sensitive data in an internet-connected... Read more
A Peekaboo Moments Data Breach Exposes Baby Photos and Videos
When security specialists tell you that anyone can fall victim to a data breach, they are not exaggerating with the hope of putting everyone in a state of unnecessary panic. Dan Ehrlich from a security consultancy... Read more
Researchers Claim That Weak Passwords Were to Blame for 30% of Ransomware Infections in 2019
Cybercriminals need to be flexible and adaptable if they are to run a successful operation. Crooks never sit still and are constantly changing their tactics not only to stay one step ahead of law enforcement agencies... Read more
Do Not Be Tricked by a Sextortion Scam Claiming That Your Nest Camera Was Hijacked
We all know about the security shortcomings plaguing the ever-increasing number of IoT devices, and you probably won't be too surprised to learn that cybercriminals are taking advantage of this. Not in the way you... Read more
A List Containing Login Information of 515,000 Devices Has Been Leaked Online
Cybersecurity news tends to be dominated by headline-grabbing ransomware outbreaks and crippling cryptojacking campaigns not only because these are among the most common types of attacks, but also because they make... Read more
WeLeakInfo.com, A Domain That Sold Access to Private Data, Has Been Seized by the FBI
We all know that cybercriminals buy and sell stolen personal data every day, and we try to convince ourselves that we've done enough to ensure that our own information doesn't end up in the wrong hands. Although many... Read more
Microsoft Stopped Supporting Windows 7: Here's What You Need to Do to Ensure Security
Windows 7 was an integral part of the first steps in computing of a whole generation of users, and we're pretty sure that some of them are probably reading these lines with nostalgia. You might be a bit shocked to... Read more
A High-Severity PayPal Security Vulnerability Was Capable of Exposing Users' Passwords to Hackers
With over 286 million active accounts, PayPal is by far the biggest and most popular payment processor in the world. It has achieved that title not only because it provides a reliable, easy-to-use service, but also... Read more
Travelex, the World's Largest Currency Exchange, Was Hacked
Travelex was founded more than forty years ago. With over 9 thousand employees and thousands of locations spread all around the world, it's widely regarded to be the biggest foreign exchange company on the planet. You... Read more
Shockingly, 93% of Healthcare Organizations in the US Have Faced a Data Breach: Biggest Breaches of 2019
Whether you visited an emergency room, had to stay at the hospital for a few days, or just had your yearly checkup in 2019, there is a good chance that you became a victim of a healthcare data breach without even... Read more
The Most Surprising Cyber Hacks That Shook Us in 2019
Cyber security threats kept growing in 2019, and it is expected that they will continue to increase in 2020, despite all efforts to stop it. Every time a weakness is patched, hackers find another system with a... Read more
5 Biggest Data Breaches of 2019, and What We Learned from Them
At the end of the decade, we’re closing a very eventful chapter in the book of cybercrime. The data breaches reported in the year 2019 nearly doubled compared to the numbers logged in 2018. Statistically, over 3,800... Read more
Researchers Discover 20,000 Cyber Attacks Every 15 Minutes Using Cyber Honeypots
Cyber attacks are getting more sophisticated as we speak. As long as you are connected to the Internet, you can get attacked. It is time to chuck away this useless conviction that you are not interesting to... Read more
Failure to Protect Samsung Cloud Accounts Has Allowed Hackers to Blackmail K-Pop Stars
For years now, we have had services like iCloud and Samsung Cloud, which help us back up all our photos, videos, texts, and contacts to the cloud and restore them on another device with a few taps of the screen. Many... Read more
