Choice Hotels data breach: 700 000 records with customer data stolen
Cybercriminals used open MongoDB database and demanded $3 800 for the stolen customer record recovery The database containing Choice Hotels customer information got accessed
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Meet Norman: a highly evasive and persistent cryptojacking malware
Norman crypto jacker is so evasive that it spread to almost every computer of the affected company without being detected The Varonis Security Research
Android banking trojan Cerberus is being rented on the dark web
The new Cerberus malware enters the scene equipped with amazing capabilities Criminals have not so long ago created and released a banking Trojan dubbed
ACCC is taking Google and Facebook to court over user privacy violations
ACCC chair says that five landmark cases against Google and Facebook needed to lay down the rules in court Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Over 40 Windows drivers are vulnerable to privilege escalation flaws
Drivers from 20 popular vendors are vulnerable to multiple vulnerabilities as revealed in DEF CON 27 security conference Drivers are vital Windows system components
Varenyky spambot targets French users, records visited adult sites
The new trojan turns the host machine into the spambot that sends out malicious emails and records screens of users who visit porn sites
KYC data exposure leads Binance to a 300 BTC ransom demand
Binance becomes a victim of scammers demanding ransom in exchange for the hacked KYC data Binance, a cryptocurrency company hailing from Malta, has received
AT&T lets itself get bribed. The result – notorious malware on the network
Pakistani man accused of bribing AT&T employees News about AT&T taking bribes has fastly flown around the web. As it has been reported, it
Announcement by Google: Trips app shut down but more is to come
Google replaces Trips apps by upgrading other services Google has announced that on the 5th of August it shut down the beloved app “Trips”.
GermanWiper ransomware attack: victims asked to pay ransom after data wipe
GermanWiper ransomware targets German organizations via malspam campaigns – deletes all files and still demands ransom Security experts spotted a new ransomware strain that
Cabarrus County suffered a social engineering attack: $1.7 Million lost
Scammers lured Cabarrus County government into transferring $2.5 Million to fake account: $1.7 Million remains lost $2.5 Million that intended to be used for
New SystemBC malware sets proxies to hide malicious traffic
New malware strain brings in the secondary payload after using Fallout and RIG EKs for the initial infection Security researchers from Proofpoint published an
ElasticSearch database leaks 40GB crucial data of Honda Motor Company
An unprotected ElasticSearch database found leaking crucial data owned by Honda Motor Company Honda ElasticSearch database was recently discovered exposing around 134 million sensitive
Android/Filecoder.C malware attacking Android OS via Reddit
Android/Filecoder.C – the new ransomware targetting Android OS via tech forums and SMS messages Ransomware actors have just started using quite an odd way
Capital One data breach affects 106 million users – the hacker arrested
Former Amazon Web Services system engineer Paige A. Thompson was accessing Capital One databases for months Capital One, the fifth-largest credit card issuer and banking