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FBI Takes Down Russia-based Cyber Platform Selling Private Data and Contraband
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) took down the DEER.IO website, a known cybercrime platform based in Russia, along with Kirill Victorovich Firsov, its alleged administrator. When you hear of personal information ...
Hackers Try to Compromise WHO’s Infrastructure amid Pandemic
Hackers tried using a phishing campaign to steal login credentials of officials working for the World Health Organization (WHO) by setting up a fake website. Fortunately, their efforts were thwarted and no ...
Spammers Use Coronavirus Message to Deploy Keylogger
Hackers are weaponizing the COVID-2019 coronavirus disease, trying to trick people into downloading malware so attackers can steal valuable information from victims’ computers. Malware deployed through infected emails and files is nothing ...
Eclypsium Researchers Demonstrate Direct Memory Attacks
Researchers from Eclypsium, a provider of secure firmware, disclosed this week that they have been able to launch successful direct memory access (DMA) attacks that bypass security frameworks such as UEFI Secure ...
US Cybersecurity Agency Warns of Possible Iranian-Backed Cyberattacks
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning the cybersecurity community, companies and the public that it expects an increase in the near future in the number of incidents emanating ...
Phishing Increasingly Targets SaaS, Webmail
How can companies protect their sensitive data and prevent employees from falling prey to phishing attacks? In today’s digital age, virtually every organization must wage a cybersecurity battle to protect its data ...
Two Companies in New Jersey Hacked with Keyloggers
A hacker from New Jersey could spend the next 12 years in prison after he confessed to using keyloggers to steal data from two companies for more than a year. Ankur Agarwal, ...
The Tax Paying Hacker: A Modern Phenomenon
In a dark room lit only by the light from four computer monitors sits a hacker named Hector (not his real name). You can hear the faint pulse of an EDM track ...
Three Romanians plead guilty in multi-million dollar “vishing and smishing” scheme
A hacking trio based in Romania has pleaded guilty to charges brought by U.S. authorities after being caught siphoning cash from unwary Americans. The three now await sentencing. Between 2011 and 2014, ...
No One is Safe: the Five Most Popular Social Engineering Attacks Against Your Company’s Wi-Fi Network
Your Wi-Fi routers and access points all have strong WPA2 passwords, unique SSIDs, the latest firmware updates, and even MAC address filtering. Good job, networking and cybersecurity teams! However, is your network ...
