Category: CYBER SECURITY

The volume of password attacks has risen to an estimated 921 attacks every second globally — a 74 per cent increase in just one year, a Microsoft report has said.

As Twitter announces plans to charge users $8 a month for Twitter Blue and account verification, some users have started receiving phishing emails to steal the passwords of unwitting users.

TikTok is spelling out to its European users of the platform that their data can be accessed by employees outside the continent, including in China, amid political and regulatory concerns about Chinese access to user information on the site, according to a media report.

Cyber-security researchers on Tuesday said that threat actor using fake Twitter accounts are impersonating banking entities to steal victims’ personal and payment information via Zoho Forms, a free online form builder from Zoho Corporation.

A database containing viewing habits of Amazon Prime Video users, stored on an internal Amazon server, was accidentally exposed online that could be accessed by anyone with a web browser.

According to the Global State of Scams 2022 Report by the Global Anti Scam Alliance (GASA) and ScamAdviser amongst 48 countries, the scams reported increased by 10.2%, from 266 in 2020 to 293 million reports in 2021. The money lost in scams grew by 15,7%, from $47.8 billion in 2020 to $55.3 billion in 2021.

Toyota Motor Corporation is warning that customers’ personal information may have been exposed after an access key was publicly available on GitHub for almost five years.

The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance has confirmed that hackers have stolen more than $100 million from its platform.

A blockchain linked to Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, has been hit by a $570 million hack, a Binance spokesperson said on Friday, the latest in a series of hacks to hit the crypto sector this year.

Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer Toyota said on Friday it had found that about 296,000 pieces of customer information from its T-Connect service might have been leaked.

Hackers have stolen around $100 million worth of cryptocurrency from a Binance-linked blockchain, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said in a tweet on Friday.

Gaming company Blizzard’s ‘Overwatch 2’, launched on October 4, was hit on the same day with a massive cyberattack and users were still facing problems even after two days.

Joe Sullivan, the former chief security officer at Uber, has been found guilty of covering up the massive 2016 cyber attack when a hacker downloaded the personal information of more than 57 million people.

Data that was stolen during a cyberattack against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has been made public by hackers, media reports said.