Category: CYBER SECURITY

French authorities have arrested two crew members of an Italian passenger ferry after discovering malware that could have allowed remote control of the vessel.

In a security advisory issued on Wednesday, Cisco stated that it discovered an ongoing hacking campaign on December 10 targeting Cisco AsyncOS software, specifically the physical and virtual appliances Cisco Secure Email Gateway, Cisco Secure Email, and Web Manager.

A hacking group known as ShinyHunters has claimed that it has stolen data belonging to premium users of Pornhub and is threatening to release it unless a ransom is paid.

Amazon says it has disrupted active hacking operations linked to the Russian military intelligence agency known as the GRU.

Security researchers have uncovered a new malware campaign called GhostPoster that hides malicious JavaScript code inside the image logos of Firefox browser extensions.

European police have shut down a major fraud network that ran scam call centers in Ukraine and stole more than €10 million from victims across Europe.

U.S.-based fintech company 700Credit has begun notifying more than 5.8 million individuals that their personal information was exposed in a data breach.

Adult video platform PornHub is being extorted by the ShinyHunters threat group after the search and watch history of Premium users was allegedly stolen in a recent data breach at analytics provider Mixpanel.

SoundCloud has confirmed that recent outages and VPN-related access problems were caused by a security breach in which threat actors stole a database containing user information.

France’s Interior Minister confirmed on Friday that the Ministry of the Interior was affected by a cyberattack that compromised its email servers.

A new email scam is abusing PayPal’s subscription system to send fake purchase alerts through real PayPal emails.

A major data breach at credit check company 700Credit has exposed the personal information of at least 5.6 million people across the United States.

Apple and Google have rolled out multiple software updates after discovering a hacking campaign that targeted an unknown number of users across their platforms.

An international anti-piracy group has taken down one of India’s most popular illegal streaming platforms, which had been offering free movies and TV shows to millions of people for the last two years.

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined LastPass £1.2 million after investigators found the company failed to use proper security measures, allowing attackers to steal personal information and encrypted password vaults belonging to up to 1.6 million UK users.

Notepad++ has released version 8.8.9 to fix a security issue in its WinGUp update tool after users and researchers reported that the updater was pulling malicious files instead of official update packages.

Google has released an emergency security update to fix another Chrome zero-day vulnerability actively exploited in the wild. This marks the eighth zero-day flaw patched in Chrome so far this year.

A new phishing kit called Spiderman is being used by cybercriminals to target customers of several European banks and cryptocurrency services.

The U.S. Justice Department has announced two indictments against Ukrainian national Victoria Eduardovna Dubranova, also known as Vika, Tory, and SovaSonya, for her alleged involvement in major cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure around the world.

Truecaller has introduced a new feature called Family Protection as the company expands its focus beyond caller identification to help tackle the rise in scams targeting entire households.