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Nigerian man pleads guilty to attempted $6 million BEC email heist

Kosi Goodness Simon-Ebo, a 29-year-old Nigerian national extradited from Canada to the United States last April, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering through business email compromise (BEC). […]

22 Sep

Recently patched Apple, Chrome zero-days exploited in spyware attacks

Security researchers with the Citizen Lab and Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed today that three zero-days patched by Apple on Thursday were abused as part of an exploit chain to install Cytrox’s Predator spyware. […]

22 Sep

Government of Bermuda links cyberattack to Russian hackers

The Government of British overseas territory Bermuda has linked a cyberattack affecting all its departments’ IT systems since Thursday to hackers based out of Russia. […]

22 Sep

Crypto firm Nansen asks users to reset passwords after vendor breach

Ethereum blockchain analytics firm Nansen asks a subset of its users to reset passwords following a recent data breach at its authentication provider. […]

22 Sep

T-Mobile denies new data breach rumors, points to authorized retailer

T-Mobile has denied suffering another data breach following Thursday night reports that a threat actor leaked a large database allegedly containing T-Mobile employees’ data. […]

22 Sep

Hotel hackers redirect guests to fake Booking.com to steal cards

Security researchers discovered a multi-step information stealing campaign where hackers breach the systems of hotels, booking sites, and travel agencies and then use their access to go after financial data belonging to customers. […]

21 Sep

‘Sandman’ hackers backdoor telcos with new LuaDream malware

A previously unknown threat actor dubbed ‘Sandman’ targets telecommunication service providers in the Middle East, Western Europe, and South Asia, using a modular info-stealing malware named ‘LuaDream.’ […]

21 Sep

GitHub passkeys generally available for passwordless sign-ins

GitHub has made passkeys generally available across the platform today to secure accounts against phishing and allow passwordless logins for all users. […]

21 Sep

Apple emergency updates fix 3 new zero-days exploited in attacks

Apple released emergency security updates to patch three new zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks targeting iPhone and Mac users, for a total of 16 zero-days patched this year. […]

21 Sep

Pizza Hut Australia warns 193,000 customers of a data breach

Pizza Hut Australia is sending data breach notifications to customers, warning that a cyberattack allowed hackers to access their personal information. […]

Tag: security

Nigerian man pleads guilty to attempted $6 million BEC email heist

Recently patched Apple, Chrome zero-days exploited in spyware attacks

Government of Bermuda links cyberattack to Russian hackers

Crypto firm Nansen asks users to reset passwords after vendor breach

T-Mobile denies new data breach rumors, points to authorized retailer

Hotel hackers redirect guests to fake Booking.com to steal cards

‘Sandman’ hackers backdoor telcos with new LuaDream malware

GitHub passkeys generally available for passwordless sign-ins

Apple emergency updates fix 3 new zero-days exploited in attacks

Pizza Hut Australia warns 193,000 customers of a data breach