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Beware of Apple-themed phishing emails threatening to limit your account

A new email phishing campaign is targeting businesses and consumers who have Apple IDs, trying to get them to enter their Apple login credentials, personal and credit card …

Final TalkTalk breach tally: 4% of customers affected

TalkTalk continues with its practice of updating the public with information regarding the recent data breach on Fridays, and according to the latest update, the total number …

Crypto e-mail provider ProtonMail pays ransom to stop DDoS attack, attack continues

Switzerland-based end-to-end encrypted e-mail provider ProtonMail has been on the receiving end of a heavy DDoS attack since Tuesday, November 3, and unavailable to its users …

A new, streamlined version of Cryptowall is doing rounds

Cryptowall 4 (although the number is not mentioned in the new, changed ransom note) is not drastically different from version 3. According to malware researcher Nathan Scott, …

Sale of legitimate code-signing certs booms on darknet markets

In the underground cybercrime economy, many players have specialized in one or two skills and services. It should come as no surprise, then, that some have become experts at …

Crypto-ransomware encrypts files “offline”

Ransomware comes in various forms, and not all ransomware encrypts files – some just block computers until the ransom is paid. When the file encryption feature is …

Another teenager arrested in connection to TalkTalk hack

A 16-year-old boy from Norwich has become the fourth person arrested in connection with the investigation into the TalkTalk data breach.Detectives from the Metropolitan Police …

Hard-hitting insights into global attacks targeting organizations

After collecting and analyzing data, based on a comprehensive review of incident response investigations conducted over the past three years on behalf of organizations across …

Chimera crypto-ransomware is hitting German companies

A new piece of crypto-ransomware is targeting German companies: it’s called Chimera, and the criminals behind the scheme are threatening to release sensitive corporate …

Nearly 2,000 Vodafone UK customers’ accounts compromised, blocked

Customers of another UK telecom have had their information compromised by hackers, as Vodafone has explained that it was “subject to an attempt to access some customers’ …

TalkTalk breach: Third arrest, data already for sale, criminals targeting pensioners

News about the TalkTalk breach and the investigation of it are coming fast and thick. After the arrests of two teens (one in Northern Ireland, the other from Feltham) believed …

Second teenager arrested in connection with TalkTalk hack

Police have arrested a second teenage boy in connection with the investigation into alleged data theft from TalkTalk.On Thursday, 29 October, detectives from the Metropolitan …

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