Security and spyware news
Stay safe online - 2019-09-15
Windows BITS misused by hackers for data transfer to a remote server
Stealth Falcon hacker group is responsible for the distribution of Win32/StealthFalcon malware.
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News Viruses and parasites
2019-09-14
Garmin SA customers beware: your credit card details might be stolen
Garmin South Africa reported a security breach that resulted in its customers' credit cards compromise.
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Cobalt Dickens hackers are back: launched attack targeting 60 universities
Iranian hacking group behind a new targeted email campaign 18 months after being charged for stealing academic data.
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News Spam and phishing
2019-09-12
Operation reWired: 281 BEC scammers arrested in US and Nigeria
281 business email compromise scammers caught in the USA, Nigeria, Turkey, Ghana, and other countries.
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News Spam and phishing
2019-09-11
Google confirms the security issue affecting Gmail and Calendar users
Google investigating security problems that can affect 1.5 billion Gmail and Calendar users.
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Hacked Robert Downey Jr.' Instagram account offered free iPhones
Avengers star Robert Downey Jr. got his Instagram account hacked: crooks placed links to survey scam sites that asked for personal information.
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News Spam and phishing
2019-09-09
Google needs to pay $170M for breaking COPPA rule on Youtube
Google has to pay a $170 million fine for violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act on YouTube.
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A staggering $5.3 million demanded from New Bedford city by Ruyk ransomware gang
Ryuk authors infected US city's network and required $5.3 million for affected files, got nothing instead.
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News Viruses and parasites
2019-09-05
XKCD web comic is warning about compromised user data
XKCD forum users involved into a major data breach - security researchers report about 562K victims.
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New ransomware strain Nemty gets distributed via the RIG exploit kit
Rig EK - the latest way used by hackers to spread Nemty Project ransomware .
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News Viruses and parasites
2019-09-03
Foxit PDF Software users are urged to reset passwords due to data leak
Foxit data breach detected. Numerous users using My Account services have been involved.
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400 US Dental offices suffer from Sodinokibi ransomware attack
The attackers managed to breach DDS Safe backup platform used by multitude Dental practices all across the US.
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News Viruses and parasites
2019-08-30
Imperva data breach: WAF clients' passwords and emails affected
Incapsula firewall users registered up until September 15, 2017 are affected.
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Avast and French authorities delete Retadup malware from 850,000 PCs
The authorities managed to take down the whole infrastructure of the Retadup malware botnet.
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News Viruses and parasites
2019-08-28
Hostinger data breach prompted password reset for 14 million customers
The hacker accessed a database of the web hosting company Hostinger and breached information of 14 million customers in 78 countries.
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