data theft
US restaurants targeted with fileless malware
Morphisec researchers have spotted another attack campaign using fileless malware that is believed to be mounted by the infamous FIN7 hacking group. The goal of the campaign …
Hackers blackmail patients of cosmetic surgery clinic
Hackers have been trying to blackmail patients of a Lithuanian plastic surgery clinic, by threatening to publish their nude “before and after” photos online. The …
17 million Zomato accounts for sale following breach
Popular restaurant search and discovery service Zomato has suffered a breach, and the attackers made off with 17 million user records. What data was compromised? These records …
HandBrake malware attack led to theft of Panic apps’ source code
Oregon-based software company Panic Inc. has announced that some of the source code for their offerings has been stolen, and they are being blackmailed by the attackers. Panic …
Russian carding industry pioneer sentenced to 27 years in prison
32-year-old Roman Valeryevich Seleznev, aka Track2, has been handed the longest US hacking sentence to date: 27 years in prison. He was convicted in August 2016, of 38 counts …
RawPOS malware has new data-grabbing capabilities
RawPOS continues to evolve, and has recently been equipped with the capability to steal data contained in the victims’ driver’s license’s 2-dimensional …
270,000 customers affected in UK loan firm Wonga data breach
Personal and financial data of some 270,000 customers of UK payday loan firm Wonga have likely been pilfered in a data breach. The data that was accessed by the attackers …
Cyber criminals targeting healthcare orgs’ FTP servers
FBI’s Cyber Division has sent out another notification to healthcare organizations, alerting them to the danger of cyber criminals using their FTP servers for various …
Germans, Czechs served with banking malware through SMS
German and Czech Android users are getting served with a banking Trojan directly through text messages, warns malware researcher Bart Blaze. The message claims that the user …
Scammers are blending W-2 phishing with wire fraud
During last year’s run-up to the US Tax Day, scammers mercilessly targeted companies’ payroll and human resources professionals, tricking them into handing over …
Shadow Brokers say goodbye, leak a batch of Windows hacking tools
The Shadow Brokers, a group (?) of hackers that has made a big splash in August last year by leaking and offering for sale exploits supposedly stolen from the infamous …
One billion users affected in newly revealed Yahoo hack
Yahoo has revealed that it’s been the victim of another hack and massive data breach that resulted in the compromise of information of a billion users! What happened? …