An Irish Court Ordered VirusTotal To Reveal Private Info Of Stolen HSE Data Downloaders
An Irish court has ordered VirusTotal to provide the information of subscribers who downloaded or uploaded confidential data stolen from Ireland's national health care service during a ransomware attack.
Bijay Pokharel,
July 2, 2021
1 min read
LinkedIn Denies Data Breach Exposing 700 Million Users’ Profile
An American business and employment-oriented online service LinkedIn has denied reports of an alleged data breach, saying the data put up for sale online recently was "scraped" from the professional networking website cum job portal and several other internet sites as reported previously in its...
Bijay Pokharel,
June 30, 2021
1 min read
Tesorion Releases A Free Decryptor For The Lorenz Ransomware
The Lorenz ransomware uses a combination of RSA and AES-128 in CBC mode to encrypt files on an infected system. A password is generated at random for each file, and an encryption key is then derived using the CryptDeriveKey function.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 30, 2021
2 min read
Easily Exploitable Critical Vulnerabilities Patched In ProfilePress Plugin
Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for several vulnerabilities that were discovered in ProfilePress, formerly WP User Avatar, a WordPress plugin installed on over 400,000 sites.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 29, 2021
3 min read
Nobelium Hackers Accessed Microsoft Customer Support Tools
Tech giant Microsoft said Russian state-sponsored Nobelium hacking group has won access to one of its customer-service agents.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 27, 2021
1 min read
Mercedes-Benz Data Breach Exposes Social Security Number (SSN) And Credit Card Numbers
Mercedes-Benz, a German automotive brand and luxury vehicle company, has disclosed a data breach impacting some of its customers. The company assessed 1.6 million customer records which included customer names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, and some purchased vehicle information to determine the impact.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 26, 2021
1 min read
Over 120K Cyber Attacks On Russia’s Critical Infrastructure Were Carried Out In 2020 : TASS
According to Russian Security Council Secretary, Nikolai Patrushev, Over 120,000 cyber attacks on Russia’s critical infrastructure were carried out in 2020, a significant number of them originated in the US, Germany and the Netherlands.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 25, 2021
1 min read
Vulnerabilities On Dell SupportAssist Put 30 Million Devices At Risk
Eclypsium researchers have identified multiple vulnerabilities affecting the BIOSConnect feature, allowing attackers to remotely execute code within the BIOS of impacted devices.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 24, 2021
3 min read
Man Arrested After Sending 25,000 Phishing Messages In A Day
Officers in Manchester city center have arrested an individual for sending fraudulent text messages to thousands of people to obtain banking details and defraud them.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 24, 2021
2 min read
ADATA Suffers Massive Data Leak In Ragnar Locker Ransomware Attack
Taiwanese memory and storage chip maker ADATA suffer a massive data leak in the Ragnar Locker Ransomware attack where hackers have published download links for more than 700GB of archived data.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 22, 2021
1 min read
Hackers Breach South Korea’s Nuclear Research Agency Through VPN Flaw
According to Ha Tae-Kyung on June 17, according to the Office of the People's Power, a hacking attack occurred on the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute on May 14. Through the vulnerability of the virtual private network (VPN) system, the history of accessing the internal...
Bijay Pokharel,
June 20, 2021
2 min read
Russia Bans VyprVPN And Opera VPN And Classified Them As Threats
Russia has banned Opera VPN and VyprVPN after classifying them as threats according to current Russian law.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 19, 2021
1 min read
Volkswagen Data Being Sold On A Hacking Forum
Last week, Volkswagen AG’s US unit disclosed a data breach at a vendor that impacted more than 3.3 million customers in North America.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 18, 2021
2 min read
Cross-Site Request Forgery Patched In WP Fluent Forms
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team responsibly disclosed a Cross-Site Request Forgery(CSRF) vulnerability in WP Fluent Forms, a WordPress plugin installed on over 80,000 sites.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 17, 2021
3 min read
How To Protect Your Child From Online Grooming
In general, Grooming is when an adult forges a relationship with a child by filling a need in their life or take advantage of a child’s vulnerabilities. This is a process that can occur over a period of time to ultimately exploit children through sexual...
Bijay Pokharel,
June 16, 2021
4 min read
REvil Ransomware Hits Sol Oriens, US Nuclear Weapons Contractor
The Russia-linked hacking group REvil reportedly launched a cyberattack against a U.S. government contractor, Sol Oriens, which works for the Department of Energy on nuclear weapons issues.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 15, 2021
1 min read
Volkswagen Data Breach Affects 3.3 Million Customers
Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (VWGoA) is the North American subsidiary of the German Volkswagen Group. It is responsible for US and Canadian operations for Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, and VW Credit, Inc.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 13, 2021
2 min read
McDonald’s Hit By Data Breach
McDonald's, an American fast-food company, has disclosed a data breach after hackers breached its systems and stole information belonging to customers and employees from the US, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 12, 2021
2 min read
Avaddon Ransomware Shuts Down Its Operation And Releases Decryption Keys
The Avaddon ransomware gang has shut down its operations and released the decryption keys. for free.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 12, 2021
1 min read
Cybercriminals Breach EA Games Server, Selling Source Code
Cybercriminals have breached the network of Electronic Arts (EA) and claim to have stolen roughly 750 GB of data, including game source code and debug tools.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 11, 2021
2 min read
