January 2021 - Page 8 of 14

Hackers leaked altered Pfizer data to sabotage trust in vaccines

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) today revealed that some of the stolen Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine candidate data was doctored by threat actors before being leaked online with the end goal of undermining the public’s trust in COVID-19 vaccines. […]

15 Jan

Scotland environmental regulator hit by ‘ongoing’ ransomware attack

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency confirmed on Thursday that some of its contact center, internal systems, processes and internal communications were affected following a ransomware attack that took place on Christmas Eve. […]

15 Jan

Signal down after getting flooded with new users

Signal users are currently experiencing issues around the world, with users unable to send and receive messages. When attempting to send messages via Signal, users are seeing loading screen and error message “502”. […]

15 Jan

Microsoft warns of incoming Windows Zerologon patch enforcement

Microsoft today warned admins that updates addressing the Windows Zerologon vulnerability will transition into the enforcement phase starting next month. […]

15 Jan

Undisclosed Apache Velocity XSS vulnerability impacts GOV sites

An undisclosed XSS vulnerability in Apache Velocity Tools can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to target government sites, including NASA. […]

14 Jan

Verified Twitter accounts hacked in $580k ‘Elon Musk’ crypto scam

Threat actors are hacking verified Twitter accounts in an Elon Musk cryptocurrency giveaway scam that has recently become widely active. […]

14 Jan

Facebook sues makers of malicious Chrome extensions for scraping data

Facebook has taken legal action against the makers of malicious Chrome extensions used for scraping user-profiles and other information from Facebook’s website and from users’ systems without authorization. […]

14 Jan

NSA advises companies to avoid third party DNS resolvers

The US National Security Agency (NSA) says that companies should avoid using third party DNS resolvers to block threat actors’ DNS traffic eavesdropping and manipulation attempts and to block access to internal network information. […]

14 Jan

Office January security updates fix remote code execution bugs

Microsoft addresses important severity remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting multiple Office products in the January 2021 Office security updates released during this month’s Patch Tuesday. […]

14 Jan

Telegram-based phishing service Classiscam hits European marketplaces

Dozens of cybercriminal gangs are publishing fake ads on popular online marketplaces to lure interested users to fraudulent merchant sites or to phishing pages that steal payment data. […]

Month: January 2021

Hackers leaked altered Pfizer data to sabotage trust in vaccines

Scotland environmental regulator hit by ‘ongoing’ ransomware attack

Signal down after getting flooded with new users

Microsoft warns of incoming Windows Zerologon patch enforcement

Undisclosed Apache Velocity XSS vulnerability impacts GOV sites

Verified Twitter accounts hacked in $580k ‘Elon Musk’ crypto scam

Facebook sues makers of malicious Chrome extensions for scraping data

NSA advises companies to avoid third party DNS resolvers

Office January security updates fix remote code execution bugs

Telegram-based phishing service Classiscam hits European marketplaces