Hackers continue to exploit hijacked MailChimp accounts in cybercrime campaigns
MailChimp, a service that millions of people around the world use to send out email newsletters, is being abused by hackers to spam out malware. A typical attack involves hackers either compromising an existing MailChimp account, or setting up a fraudulent account, from which they then spam out scams or ... Read More
Poisoned BitTorrent client kickstarted malware outbreak that tried to infect 400,000 PCs
Microsoft has detailed how it intercepted a massive malware distribution campaign on March 6th which attempted to infect over 400,000 Windows PCs with cryptomining software in a single 12 hour period. The post Poisoned BitTorrent client kickstarted malware outbreak that tried to infect 400,000 PCs appeared first on The State ... Read More
Know who hacked the Binance cryptocurrency exchange? Earn $250,000
Binance, one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges by trading volume, has offered a reward equivalent to $250,000 to anyone providing information that leads to the arrest of hackers who attacked the platform last week. For two minutes on March 7th, the Binance platform saw abnormal trading activity, which caused ... Read More
Windows 10 flaw allowed attackers to open malicious websites… even if your PC was locked
You may think your Windows 10 computer is locked, but is it really? Israeli researchers Tal Be’ery and Amichai Shulman have discovered a way of just using voice commands to make locked Windows 10 computers visit a website under the control of malicious hackers… and potentially install malware. The problem ... Read More
Android P promises new security and privacy features
Android P, the next generation of Google’s operating system, may not be due for release until sometime later this year – but that doesn’t mean we don’t already know some of the features it has in store for us. That’s because the Android P is now available as a developer ... Read More
400,000 servers at risk if open-source Exim remote attack bug is left unpatched
At least 400,000 servers are thought to be running a vulnerable program that can be tricked by a remote hacker into running malicious code. The post 400,000 servers at risk if open-source Exim remote attack bug is left unpatched appeared first on The State of Security ... Read More
World record broken again! DDoS attack exceeds 1.7 terabits per second
Just days after it was revealed that a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on GitHub had been measured at a record-breaking peak of 1.35 terabits per second, another attack has raced past, and claimed the world record at a mind-blowing 1.7 Tbps. To give these figures some context, the notorious DDoS ... Read More
Apple issues advice on how to spot App Store and iTunes phishing scams
Phishing scam emails, purporting to come from Apple, are not an unusual sighting in users’ inboxes these days. Typical examples include emails that ask you to update your account information, or pretend to be a receipt for a purchase from the App Store, iTunes Store, iBooks Store or Apple Music ... Read More
1 in 50 publicly readable Amazon buckets are also writable – and that’s a data disaster waiting to happen
Now is not the time to dilly-dally. If you haven’t already properly secured the Amazon Web Services S3 servers (known as “buckets”) storing your sensitive data in the cloud then your business has no time to lose ... Read More
Form W-2 data thefts are rocketing, warns FBI
Businesses beware! Online criminals have ramped up their attempts to steal W-2 information from the finance and human resources departments of organisations, according to a warning issued by the FBI. In an alert issued last week, the FBI warned that it had observed a significant increase in reports from companies ... Read More