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The personal Twitter accounts of Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, Warren Buffett in addition to the official corporate accounts of Apple, Uber, and Cash were hijacked for several hours July 15 in an apparent Bitcoin scam.
Most of the messages requested a transfer of Bitcoin with a promise of doubling all payments made...
The discovery of a database for sale on the dark web suggests the 2019 data breach of MGM Resorts was significantly larger than initially reported.
Access to the database was made available on a dark web cybercrime marketplace for roughly $3,000. It contains the personal information of more than 142 million guests of MGM hotels, according to technology reporting site...
2020 is on the path to becoming a record-breaking year for data breaches and compromised personal data.
A recent article released by cybersecurity and antivirus firm Bitdefender shows that 8.4 billion records have already been exposed, and that’s only accounting for the first quarter of 2020. For comparison, that’s a 273% increase over the first two quarters of 2019 combined.
“While...
There is no overestimating the value of your company's domain name. Whether you work for a big brand or run a mom-and-pop dot-com, the goal is easy navigation to your site. A prospective client or customer types your company name and their browser does the rest.
What would happen if you typed in "Amazon," the corresponding domain popped up, and you clicked, but...
A Russia-based hacking group is exploiting the current Covid-19 pandemic to target and compromise U.S. companies with multiple strains of malware, according to a new report.
Cybersecurity firm Symantec released a warning that the Russian hacking group “Evil Corp” has been behind a widespread hacking campaign against over thirty U.S. organizations, including eight Fortune 500 companies. The group has been...
We're not even halfway through 2020, and already it's been a record-breaking year for ransomware attacks. Barely a week goes by without reports of a new strain or variant of malware wreaking havoc among companies.
1-99-employee companies are a target
No industry, category, size, or group is safe from this cyber scourge.
We hear about the big ones. Manufacturing giant Honda had its networks brought to a...
Phony contact-tracing apps meant to mitigate the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic are installing ransomware on mobile devices.
One app billed itself, “The Covid-19 Tracer App,” claiming to be an official mobile app of the Canadian government’s coronavirus contact tracing effort. “The more Canadians who voluntarily download and use the app, the safer we’ll be, and the faster we can...
269 gigabytes of potentially sensitive data collected from more than 200 police departments across the country were leaked online last week.
The data, called “BlueLeaks,” was shared online by a group called Distributed Denial of Secrets, or DDoSecrets), a Wikileaks-style organization committed to “enabling the free transmission of data in the public interest.”
According to the leakers, the dump included, “Ten...
CIA-developed hacking tools stolen in 2016 were compromised by an organizational culture of lax cybersecurity, according to an internal memo.
In a 2017 memo recently acquired by the Washington Post, a CIA task force attributed the exfiltration of critical hacking tools and data to “a culture… that too often prioritized creativity and collaboration at the expense of security.”
The task force...
An unsecured Amazon Web Services (AWS) database leaked the personal information of hundreds of thousands of users of several niche and special interest dating apps.
Security researchers from vpnMentor discovered 845 gigabytes of user data from dating apps including 3somes, Cougary, Gay Daddy Bear, Xpal, BBW Dating, Casualx, SugarD, and Herpes Dating in late May. Included in the exposed data...