Malware
Travelex Temporarily Disabled All Its Systems Following a Malware Attack
Foreign exchange company Travelex announced that it had temporarily disabled all of its systems following a malware attack. Twitter user Izzy Fergus first noticed something was wrong when she attempted to visit ...
Landry’s Notifies Customers of Payment Card Incident
Dining, hospitality and entertainment corporation Landry’s notified customers of a security incident that might have affected their payment card data. On December 31, Landry’s revealed that it first learned of the incident ...
Malware spotlight: Fileless malware
Introduction Fileless malware is a malicious technique that uses existing software, legitimate applications, operating system files and the authorized protocols of the victim’s machine to achieve... Go on to the site to ...
New Mexico hospital tells patients to monitor bank statements after malware infection
Patients of Roosevelt General Hospital in Portales, New Mexico are told to monitor their credit reports after the healthcare unit discovered malware on a digital imaging server used in radiology that contained ...
Top 10 Podcast Episodes from 2019
Thank you for supporting and listening to the show this year! Initial data on our download numbers show that we’ve grown our audience by over 40% in 2019! Having said that, if ...
GozNym cyberattackers sentenced in Pittsburgh and Tbilisi, Georgia
The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the sentencing of three members of the network behind the GozNym cyberattacks on U.S. entities resulting in the theft of $100 million. Krasimir Nikolov, 47, ...
Malware Spotlight: What are Emotets?
Introduction When some first hear the name Emotet, they may think they’re are hearing the name of the villain from the latest bad mummy movie. But Emotets may be considered even more ...
Malware Potentially Exposed Wawa Customers’ Payment Card Details
Convenience store chain Wawa disclosed a malware incident that might have exposed some of its customers’ payment card details. In a “Notice of Data Breach” published on December 2019, Wawa CEO Chris ...
5 Year Anniversary of the SoakSoak Malware Tsunami
This is a story about the SoakSoak malware campaign that proved that you can’t underestimate impact of security issues in popular premium software. These days, the majority of popular content management systems ...
How Websites Are Used to Spread Emotet Malware
In past posts, we’ve discussed the more popular reasons why hackers target smaller websites. Today, we’ll focus instead on how hackers use compromised websites to spread dangerous malware like Emotet to end ...
