World Cyber News

We have had an almost 2 week break from Locky ransomware. This morning in UK we suddenly see the return. It is almost as if they have timed the new version to spam out on Thanksgiving day in USA , where the AV companies and security teams are off on their […]

Cyber-criminals are increasingly targeting user accounts to harvest their reward points, which are then used to fuel an illegal dark web travel services sector. Researchers at security intelligence firm Flashpoint revealed that the hackers usually compromise accounts associated with reward points credit cards — with the points subsequently being used to […]

On Saturday night an unknown hacker targeted the Sacramento Regional Transit System (RT or SacRT) in California and hacked into its website along with its critical cyber infrastructure. At first, the hacker defaced the site, left a message and pretended to be one of the good guys who hack and […]

The government’s National Cyber Security Centre said the attack involved the use of « Powershell » malware, but it did not comment on the source of the attack or which government bodies were targeted. RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi authorities said Monday they had detected an « advanced » cyber attack targeting the kingdom, in […]

The UpGuard Cyber Risk Team can now disclose that three publicly downloadable cloud-based storage servers exposed a massive amount of data collected in apparent Department of Defense intelligence-gathering operations. The repositories appear to contain billions of public internet posts and news commentary scraped from the writings of many individuals from […]