data theft
Intellectual property cyber theft to rise 58%
The number of intellectual property cyber theft incidents in the next 12 months is expected to increase, according to 58 percent of respondents to a recent Deloitte poll. When …
43+ million users affected by confirmed Weebly breach
Weebly, a popular web-hosting service featuring a drag-and-drop website builder, has been breached, and email addresses/usernames, IP addresses and encrypted passwords for …
100+ online shops compromised with payment data-stealing code
Since March 2016 (and possibly even earlier), someone has been compromising a variety of online shops and injecting them with malicious JavaScript code that exfiltrates …
Compromised electronic health records may haunt you forever
A recent report on the Deep Web black market for electronic health records (EHRs) by researchers affiliated with the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology has …
USBee makes USB devices transmit data from air-gapped computers
After devising ways of exfiltrating data from air-gapped computers via mobile phones, using radio frequencies, heat, rogue software that transmits electromagnetic signals at …
Epic Games forums hacked again, over 800,000 users affected
Some of the online forums maintained by Epic Games, the video game development company behing the Unreal Engine technology and games based on it, have been hacked and their …
Data of 200 million Yahoo users offered for sale
Data of some 200 million Yahoo users has been offered for sale on the TheRealDeal dark web market by “peace_of_mind” (aka “Peace”). Even though Yahoo is yet to confirm whether …
Warframe, Clash of Kings players’ info stolen after forum hacks
Two new website hack/ user data theft combos have been revealed last week, and the victims are players of popular mobile real time strategy game Clash of Kings and online …
Ubuntu Forums hacked again, 2 million users exposed
Canonical’s Ubuntu Forums have been hacked, and the attacker has managed to access and download part of the Forums database, containing usernames, email addresses and …
Exfiltrating data from air-gapped computers by modulating fan speed
For the last few years, researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have been testing up new ways to exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers: via mobile phones, …
Why are hackers increasingly targeting the healthcare industry?
Cyber-attacks in the healthcare environment are on the rise, with recent research suggesting that critical healthcare systems could be vulnerable to attack. In general, the …
Another “historic” hack and leak: 51 million iMesh accounts for sale
Email addresses and login credentials of some 51 million users of the recently defunct iMesh file sharing service are being sold online for 1 bitcoin. The seller is …