A new report by Nexusguard shows that booter websites, which offer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) services for hire more than doubled in the first three months of 2019 compared to Q4 of last …
TripAdvisor Invalidates Member Passwords Found in Data Breaches
TripAdvisor is taking a proactive approach to prevent its users from falling victim to credential stuffing attacks by invalidating member passwords if the password and corresponding email address were …
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US Struck Iranian Military Computers This Week: AP Sources
While United States President Donald Trump abruptly canceled strikes on Iranian targets last Thursday, the US did launch attacks on Iran in cyberspace that day, US officials said this weekend, adding …
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US Adds AMD Joint Venture to Entity List
In the latest episode in the technological cold war between the US-China, the US Department of Commerce has added five Chinese organizations to its list of foreign entities that are considered a …
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Free proxy service found running on top of 2,600+ hacked WordPress sites
Netlab researchers are warning that the Free-Socks.in proxy service is a front for a criminal operation, as the service runs on top of a massive botnet consisting of 2,692 WordPress sites, nearly half …
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WeTransfer Security Incident Sent Files to the Wrong People
A security incident at the highly popular WeTransfer file sharing service has violated the privacy of an unknown number of users whose files were sent to the wrong people. The incident occurred on …
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Pledges to Not Pay Ransomware Hit Reality
Last week, the City Council of Riviera Beach stated that its decision to pay $600,000 in ransom to threat actors that infected the city network with ransomware, was made based on the advice of …
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UK Police suspend work with major forensics firm after cyber-attack
A recent ransomware attack on forensics firm Eurofins has impacted operations of the UK police department, which is now dealing with an increasing backlog of pending forensic …
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Cyber-Risks Hiding Inside Mobile App Stores
A new RiskIQ shows that the number of blacklisted mobile apps increased by 15% between Q4 of 2018 and Q1 of this year. However, Google is increasingly successful at barring malicious Android apps from …
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Iranian Hackers Launch a New US-Targeted Campaign as Tensions Mount
In the midst of rising US-Iran tensions, security researchers with Crowdstrike and Dragos have uncovered a new Iranian cyber campaign targeting organizations in the United States. The state-backed …
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