Security and spyware news

Google replaces Trips apps by upgrading other services. Google has announced that on the 5th of August it shut down the beloved app "Trips". More

GermanWiper ransomware targets German organizations via malspam campaigns - deletes all files and still demands ransom. More

Scammers lured Cabarrus County government into transferring $2.5 Million to fake account: $1.7 Million remains lost. More

New malware strain brings in the secondary payload after using Fallout and RIG EKs for the initial infection. More

An unprotected ElasticSearch database found leaking crucial data owned by Honda Motor Company. More

Android/Filecoder.C - the new ransomware targetting Android OS via tech forums and SMS messages. More

Former Amazon Web Services system engineer Paige A. Thompson was accessing Capital One databases for months. More

Marcus Hutchins, who saved thousands of users from the notorious WannaCry ransomware is not going to serve jail time. More

Sky Broadband customers prompted to reset their passwords due to a possible data breach. More

MobiDash malware is being delivered via a fake FaceApp module that is hosted on third-party sites. More

Sodinokibi ransomware devs started a new malspam campaign: phishing emails sent in the name of national German cybersecurity agency BSI . More

Lancaster University discovered a data leakage of people's records on July 2019. More

Credit reporting bureau Equifax agreed to pay up to $700 million to settle prosecution actions over the data breach of 2017 . More

Hacking group 0v1ru$ breached a contractor of Russia's Federal Security Service and leaked the secret program to the media. More

The viral FaceApp raises questions regarding users' privacy and relations to the Russian government. More