Crooks have infected over 40,000 web servers, modems, and other IoT devices with the Prowli malware as part of a cryptocurrency mining campaign and to redirect victims to malicious sites. The Prowli malware was spotted by researchers at GuardiCore, attackers composed the huge botnet by exploiting known vulnerabilities and brute-force […]
VPNFilter Can Also Infect ASUS, D-Link, Huawei, Ubiquiti, UPVEL, and ZTE Devices
The VPNFilter malware that infected over 500,000 routers and NAS devices across 54 countries during the past few months is much worse than previously thought. According to new research technical details published today by the Cisco Talos security team, the malware —which was initially thought to be able to infect […]
HR Software company PageUp victim of a Data Breach, experts fear a domino effect
HR Software Firm PageUp is the last victim of a data breach, the company has 2.6 million active users across over 190 countries. Another day another data breach makes the headlines, this time the victim is the HR Software Firm PageUp. PageUp is an Australian company with 2.6 million active users across […]
Hackers Target Travel Firm to Plunder Hundreds of Thousands from Clients
The Cyber criminals have now targeted a travel firm Booking.com in an offer to plunder hundreds and thousands of pounds from clients. The clients were sent WhatsApp and text messages asserting a security break that implied that they needed to change their password. Be that as it may, the link […]
Chinese Central Bank Introduces Virtual Checks with New Blockchain System
The central bank of China has completed a Blockchain-based system that would enable local businesses to issue digital checks, as disclosed by a senior official. According to a local news outlet’s op-ed published Tuesday, deputy head of the digital currency research lab at the People’s Bank of China, Di Gang, stated that […]
The cyberattack on banks in Mexico: The challenges posed to cybersecurity
Toward the end of April 2018, it was revealed that Mexico’s financial system was the victim of a cyberattack in which cybercriminals stole over 300 million pesos. Initially, the Interbank Electronic Payment System (SPEI) of the Bank of Mexico began reporting some abnormalities in the interbank transfer service. And although initially it was not […]
‘Zip Slip’ arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability affects thousands of projects
Security experts from British software firm Snyk have discovered a critical vulnerability, dubbed ‘Zip Slip’ that affects thousands of projects across many industries. The flaw, that remained hidden for years, could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable systems. The Zip Slip is an arbitrary file overwrite […]
The author of the Sigrun Ransomware decrypts Russian victims’ files for free
The author of the Sigrun Ransomware is providing the decryption key to Russian victims for free, others have to pay a ransom of $2,500 worth of Bitcoin or Dash for the victims. We have reported several cases where Russian malware authors avoid infecting computers in their country, but the case we […]
MyHeritage Genealogy Site Announces Mega Breach Affecting 92 Million Accounts
Family genealogy and DNA testing site MyHeritage announced on Monday a security breach during which an attacker made off with account details for over 92 million MyHeritage users. In a statement on its website, MyHeritage said it became aware of the incident on Monday, the same day of the announcement. The incident […]
Visa payments DOWN: Millions affected by a service disruption
The Visa card payment system is suffering a widespread outage across Europe, millions of users were unable to make payments using their cards. Shoppers and travelers were unable to make payments with their cards since at around 2.30pm on Friday across Europe. At the time of writing, Visa confirmed the […]