According to this year's edition of the The Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community, the major cyberthreats for the US and its allies come from China and Russia. The report …
Theoretical Ransomware Attack Could Lead to Global Damages Says Report
A new report by Cambridge University, Nanyang Technological University, Lloyd's, Aon, MSIG, and SCOR TransRe, describes the effects of a hypothetical global ransomware attack of unprecedented scale. …
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Police are now targeting former WebStresser DDoS-for-hire users
In a cooperative effort, law enforcement agencies in 15 countries are targeting people that have used the DDoS-for-hire platform WebStresser. In addition to tracking down the users, police are …
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Iran-Linked Hackers Use Array of Tools to Steal Data: FireEye
Security researchers with FireEye are tracking a cyber-espionage group operating from Iran. The group, which is dubbed APT39 and has been operating since at least November 2014, primarily focuses on …
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$1.7 billion in cryptocurrency was stolen and scammed in 2018
According to a new CipherTrace report, cybercriminals obtained a whopping $1.7 billion in cryptocurrency through theft and scamming in 2018. $950 million of this was stolen from cryptocurrency …
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57% of IT workers who get phished don’t change their password behaviors
New research by Yubico and the Ponemon Institute sheds light on the somewhat surprising security practices and concerns of IT personnel in the US, France, Germany and the UK. The most disturbing …
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Big tech firms still don’t care about your privacy
Yesterday was Data Privacy Day, a holiday introduced by the Council of Europe in 2007 that seems to be more relevant than ever, since the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into force …
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Huawei denies allegations contained in US Department of Justice indictments
The U.S. has indicted Huawei and the company's CFO Meng Wanzhou, a pair of unsealed documents shows. One of the indictments charges Huawai with conspiracy to steal intellectual property belonging to …
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Disable FaceTime Now! Bug Lets Callers Snoop On You Without Permission
FaceTime users may want to turn off the app on their iOS device to prevent threat actors from spying on them. Apple is preparing an out-of-bound patch for a major iOS security flaw affecting FaceTime. …
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Law enforcement shuts down xDedic marketplace for hacked servers
A cooperative effort by law enforcement agencies from the U.S., Belgium, Ukraine as well as the European agencies Europol and Eurojust, has resulted in the takedown of a vast underground digital …
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