Category: CYBER SECURITY

More than $100 million worth of cryptocurrency was lost in the month of April this year due to crypto-related exploits, hacks, and scams, a report has shown.

Cybercriminals operating on the dark web are reportedly selling verified, hacked crypto accounts on the darknet for as little as $30 each.

In an operation coordinated by Europol and involving nine countries, law enforcement have seized the illegal dark web marketplace “Monopoly Market” and arrested 288 suspects involved in buying or selling drugs on the dark web.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray has revealed that Chinese hackers outnumber FBI cyber staff 50 to one.

Tech giant Google banned 173,000 developer accounts last year to combat malware operations and fraud rings from infecting Android users' devices with malicious apps.

In an effort to protect users from cyberattacks, Google has blocked the notorious CryptBot malware, which the company claims have stolen data from hundreds of thousands of Chrome browser users in the past year.

A 36-year-old resident of Netishyn has been detained after the Cyber Police Department, in collaboration with the Svyatoshyn district prosecutor's office, uncovered a major data breach that could have affected more than 300 million people from Ukraine and EU countries.

Missing Authorization and Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities patched in Shield Security, a security plugin with over 50,000 installations.

The vulnerability enables threat actors with contributor-level permissions or higher to inject malicious web scripts into pages using the plugin’s shortcode.

Australians lost a record $3.1 billion to scams in 2022. This is an 80 % increase in total losses recorded in 2021.

Phishing attacks rose nearly 50 percent in 2022 compared to 2021 and education was the most targeted industry, with attacks increasing by 576 percent, a report showed on Tuesday.

US network infrastructure giant CommScope has faced a ransomware attack where cyber-criminals published thousands of employees' data online.

In response to the first zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks since the start of the year, Google has released an emergency Chrome security update.

The notorious ransomware gang, known as LockBit, has seemingly expanded its targets to include Mac devices for the first time, the media reported.

Cyber-security researchers have discovered a new malware that is distributed over the popular chatting platform Discord which has more than 300 million active users.

Hackers have stolen around 10 TB of data from data storage leader Western Digital that allegedly contains customer information.

Microsoft has fixed a zero-day vulnerability affecting all supported versions of Windows, which experts say hackers exploited to launch ransomware attacks, a new report said on Thursday.