Guilty plea: former Yahoo engineer hacked thousands of email accounts
6,000 Yahoo email accounts of mostly young females got hacked in search for sexual images On Monday, a former Yahoo software engineer Reyes Daniel
Spam and phishing
Account hijacking campaign hits a large number of YouTube influencers
A coordinated phishing campaign hit a yet unknown number of prominent YouTube influencers specializing in gaming, car industry, tech, and other topics Over the weekend,
Police warn about Venmo app texting scam that targets banking data
Phishing scam disguising as Venmo application is redirecting users to a fake website collecting personal and banking data Massachusetts police has warned Venmo users
After months of silence, Emotet came back with a new malspam campaign
Malicious email campaign targeting USA, Germany, Poland, Italy, and the United Kingdom spotted delivering malware-loader Emotet Researchers uncovered Emotet malware campaigns targeting businesses, government
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 Hackers associated with the Iranian government
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 The United States Department of Justice announced about a
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 One of the
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
Libyan hacker used Facebook platform to distribute trojans for years
Security experts uncovered Facebook accounts that pushed malware to tens of thousands of people for the past five years The Facebook platform was used
Two Israeli brothers possibly connected to Bitfinex hack got arrested
Israeli police arrested two brothers involved in Bitfinex hack and cryptocurrency-related campaigns Two brothers involved in Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange hack got arrested by the
Email phishing campaign ends in $503K loss for Burlington city
The City of Burlington falls victim in a phishing scheme that results in $503 000 transfer to a phony bank account City officials
Microsoft warns: new spam campaign targets Europeans with backdoor
A new malspam campaign abuses an old Microsoft Office vulnerability CVE-2017-11882 to install a backdoor trojan on users' computers Tech giant Microsoft issued a
“The Nasty List” scam targets Instagram users’ credentials
Users are facing another Instagram scam: the phishing link claims that their name is on the alleged “Nasty List” A new phishing campaign was
Latest Boeing 737 accidents used to spread malware via email spam
Hackers are persuading users to open a malicious file that allegedly contains information about the two recent Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashes Computer security
Phishers use Google Translate domain to hide password stealing tactics
Google and Facebook users' logins and passwords targeted by phishing campaign posing as Google Translate It seems that scammers have started using a new