DigitalOcean Data Breach Exposes Customer Billing Data
Cloud hosting provider DigitalOcean has emailed customers warning of a data breach involving customers’ billing data.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 29, 2021
1 min read
How Secure Are QR Codes?
Attackers can embed malicious URLs containing custom malware into a QR code which could then exfiltrate data from a mobile device when scanned. It is also possible to embed a malicious URL into a QR code that directs to a phishing site, where unsuspecting users...
Bijay Pokharel,
April 27, 2021
2 min read
Hacker Published 20 Million Alleged BigBasket Users Records On Dark Web
A hacker has leaked database of about 20 million alleged BigBasket users on a popular hacker forum.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 26, 2021
1 min read
REvil Ransomware Gang Are Demanding $50 Million From Apple To Avoid Documents Leaked
The operators of the REvil ransomware are demanding a $50 million ransom from Apple to avoid having confidential information leaked on the dark web,
Bijay Pokharel,
April 22, 2021
1 min read
Geico Data Breach Exposed Customers’ Driver’s License Numbers For More Than A Month
Insurance company Geico has suffered a data breach that exposed customers’ driver’s license for more than a month, according to a data breach notice filed with the attorney general of California.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 20, 2021
1 min read
Swinburne University Data Breach Exposes Details Of 5000 Individuals
Swinburne University has confirmed that details of more than 5,000 staff and students were inadvertently made available on the Internet. The information made available was name, email address, and in some cases, a contact phone number.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 17, 2021
1 min read
Russian Hackers Are Actively Exploiting Five Publicly Known Vulnerabilities: NSA
The National Security Agency (NSA), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) jointly released a Cybersecurity Advisory, “Russian SVR Targets U.S. and Allied Networks,” today to expose ongoing Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) exploitation of five publicly known...
Bijay Pokharel,
April 16, 2021
1 min read
What Is Sextortion? And How Can You Avoid It?
Sextortion is an emerging online scam in which an attacker attempts to extort money or get victims to do something against their will by threatening to release embarrassing, personal images or their most intimate moments to their contacts, friends, and family.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 16, 2021
4 min read
3.1 Million External Attacks On Cloud User Accounts In Q4 2020 – McAfee
In Q4, McAfee Labs observed an average of 648 threats per minute, an increase of 60 threats per minute (10%) over Q3. The two quarters also saw COVID-19-related cyber-attack detections increase by 240% in Q3 and 114% in Q4, while Powershell threats again surged 208%...
Bijay Pokharel,
April 13, 2021
1 min read
Researchers Found Critical Vulnerability In Zoom, Rewarded $200,000
The vulnerability was discovered as part of a contest, Pwn2Own, organised by cybersecurity firm Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), a programme designed to reward security researchers for responsibly disclosing vulnerabilities.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 10, 2021
2 min read
500 Million LinkedIn Account Leaked Online On A Popular Hacker Forum
Days after a massive Facebook data leaked, a thread actor is selling an archive containing data purportedly scraped from 500 million LinkedIn profiles on a popular hacker forum.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 9, 2021
1 min read
European Commissions Were Hit By Cyber-Attack Last Week
The European Commission and several other European Union organizations were hit by a cyberattack in March, according to a European Commission spokesperson.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 7, 2021
1 min read
533 Million Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers Leaked On Hacker Forum
533 million Facebook users' phone number has been leaked on a popular hacker forum for free.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 4, 2021
1 min read
Google: North Korean Hackers Target Security Researchers Again
Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) says that North Korean government-sponsored hackers are once again targeting security researchers using fake Twitter and LinkedIn social media accounts.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 1, 2021
1 min read
Top 5 Tips To Protect Your Webcam From Hackers
Millions of us are constantly adding IoT devices to our homes – digital speakers, security cameras, and smart doorbells, to say nothing about all the connected clocks, thermostats, lights, and more. Each one of these is an attack surface, and we are only increasing the...
Bijay Pokharel,
March 30, 2021
5 min read
Two Vulnerabilities Patched In Facebook For WordPress Plugin
This flaw made it possible for unauthenticated attackers with access to a site’s secret salts and keys to achieve remote code execution through a deserialization weakness.
Bijay Pokharel,
March 26, 2021
1 min read
People Lost Over £34.5m In COVID-19 Related Scams
Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting center for fraud, has received 6,073 reports of COVID-linked fraud and cyber crime since March 1 2020.
Bijay Pokharel,
March 24, 2021
3 min read
12 Most Common Bad Habit On The Internet That You Should Stop RIGHT NOW!
Many internet users are negligent and careless when it comes to their security online. Doing a little online shopping while using free public Wi-Fi. Downloading files from sketchy websites. And, of course, creating easy-to-guess passwords. So here’s a helpful list of the top 12 most...
Bijay Pokharel,
March 24, 2021
5 min read
PC Giant Acer Hit By $50 Million Ransomware Attack
PC giant Acer has been hit by a REvil ransomware attack where the threat actors are demanding the largest known ransom to date, $50 Million
Bijay Pokharel,
March 20, 2021
1 min read
People Lost Over $4.2 Billion To Cybercrime In 2020: FBI
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has released its annual report. The 2020 Internet Crime Report includes information from 791,790 complaints of suspected internet crime—an increase of more than 300,000 complaints from 2019—and reported losses exceeding $4.2 billion.
Bijay Pokharel,
March 18, 2021
1 min read
