Category: CYBER SECURITY

Cyber-security researchers on Friday revealed a modified version of the popular messaging app Telegram on Android that is found to be malicious and can steal your data.

Law enforcement from Germany, Poland, and the United Kingdom, supported by Europol, have tracked down and arrested the head of a criminal network responsible for defrauding hundreds of elderly citizens.

In the first half of 2023 alone, the number of email-based phishing attacks has surged 464 percent globally when compared to 2022, a new report said on Friday.

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) responsible for granting patents and trademarks, has confirmed that it unintentionally exposed the private addresses of about 61,000 filers in a years-long data leak.

This vulnerability makes it possible for any user with an existing account to reset arbitrary user passwords, including user accounts with administrative-level access.

The encrypted communications tool EncroChat, widely utilized by organized crime groups (OCGs), has been effectively dismantled, resulting in a significant breakthrough in law enforcement efforts worldwide.

A malware campaign is distributing fake OnlyFans content and adult lures in order to install the remote access trojan 'DcRAT' on victims' devices to steal data and credentials, or to deploy ransomware on the infected device.

Two US-based major players in the aviation industry — American Airlines and Southwest Airlines have disclosed data breaches that have affected their pilot applicants.

The University of Manchester finally confirmed that attackers behind a cyberattack disclosed in early June had stolen data belonging to alums and current students.

Joseph James O'Connor, one of the hackers responsible for the Twitter hack of 2020, was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday.

A Nigerian national, who was previously extradited to the United States from the United Kingdom, was sentenced to 82 months in prison on June 21, 2023, for his role in a transnational inheritance fraud scheme. 

Discord is being used in hidden communities and chat rooms by some adults to groom children before abducting them, trading child sexual exploitation material (CSAM) and extorting minors whom they trick into sending nude images, the media reported.

China-linked APT groups, including Mustang Panda and UNC4191, are the most active in targeting nation-states, producing nearly 79 percent of all detected threat activity in the first quarter of 2023, a new report showed on Wednesday.

A Tesla software hacker discovered a secret driver mode named after the company's CEO, Elon Musk, that allows for hands-free driving in Tesla vehicles.

The threat actors claim to have stolen 7 TB of data from the University of Manchester during a June 6th cyberattack.

The exposed documents within the database comprised various critical records, such as vehicle registrations, insurance cards, driver's licenses, and more.

This vulnerability makes it possible for an attacker to gain access to the accounts of users who have abandoned their carts, who are typically customers but can extend to other high-level users when the right conditions are met.

This malware is presently being actively distributed through explicit bait, specifically targeting OnlyFans pages and other adult content.

In a "Reddit Files" post on the gang's data leak site, the threat actors claim to have stolen 80 GB of compressed data from the company during the attack and now plan on leaking the data.