Dutch police have posted “friendly” messages on two of today’s largest hacking forums warning cyber-criminals that “hosting criminal infrastructure in …
Losses to romance scams reached a record $304 million in 2020
Image: FTC The current COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent stay-at-home and social distancing directives might have played a major role …
Egregor ransomware operators arrested in Ukraine
Members of the Egregor ransomware cartel have been arrested this week in Ukraine, French radio station France Inter reported on …
Yandex said it caught an employee selling access to users’ inboxes
Russian search engine and email provider Yandex said today that it caught one of its employees selling access to user …
Apple will proxy Safe Browsing traffic on iOS 14.5 to hide user IPs from Google
Apple’s upcoming iOS 14.5 release will ship with a feature that will re-route all Safari’s Safe Browsing traffic through Apple-controlled …
Accellion to retire product at the heart of recent hacks
US cloud service provider Accellion has announced the end-of-life for its FTA product after the software has been abused in …
Android spyware strains linked to state-sponsored Confucius threat group
Two variants of Android spyware connected to pro-India, state-sponsored hacking campaigns have been discovered. On Tuesday, cybersecurity firm Lookout said …
Adobe patches wave of critical bugs in Magento, Acrobat, Reader
Adobe has patched numerous critical vulnerabilities in a range of software including Magento, Acrobat, Reader, and Photoshop. On Tuesday, the …
CD Projekt Red game studio discloses ransomware attack, extortion attempt
Image: CD Projekt Red Polish game developer CD Projekt Red, the maker of triple-A games like Cyberpunk 2077 and The …
Hacktivists deface multiple Sri Lankan domains, including Google.lk
A mysterious group of hacktivists has poisoned the DNS records of several Sri Lankans (.lk) websites on Saturday and redirected …