Tag: security

UK-based digital mobile-only bank Monzo asked roughly 480,000 of its customers to change their debit card PINs after discovering that they were stored in encrypted log files. […]

Multiple companies were off to a rough start last week when a phishing campaign pushing a data-wiping malware targeted them and asked for a ransom. Researchers call it GermanWiper. […]

A long-running scam email campaign that pretends to be an unsubscribe confirmation request has seen an uptick recently. These emails should never be clicked on or responded to as they are designed to harvest working email addresses or to perform some other type of scam. […]

Since 2018, a constant stream of extortion email scams have been targeting users with fake threats designed to scare you into sending a payment in bitcoins to avoid an embarrassing leak or threat of legal action. […]

Misconfigured Jira servers from big names in the tech industry exposed information about internal projects and users that could be accessed by anyone with a good command of advanced search operators. […]

This week the biggest news was attackers breaking into Iomega NAS devices, wiping the drives, and then leaving ransom notes. It is not known if any users were able to recover their files after paying the ransom. […]

NVIDIA released a GPU display driver security update to fix five high and medium severity vulnerabilities that could lead to local code execution, escalation of privileges, and denial of service on vulnerable Windows computers. […]

Hackers on the prowl for unsecured databases found a publicly accessible MongoDB instance and replaced the almost 1.2 million sensitive records it stored with a ransom note. […]

Amil Hassan Raage was arrested for defrauding two U.S. Universities of more than $870,000 as part of a business email compromise (BEC) fraud scheme he ran during last year. […]

A spear-phishing campaign observed during late July targeted three U.S. entities from the utility sector with a new malware featuring a remote access Trojan (RAT) module designed to give the attackers admin control over the infected systems. […]