IT Security and Data Protection

Egregor Ransomware Strikes Metro Vancouver’s TransLink

The Egregor ransomware gang struck TransLink, the authority responsible for managing Metro Vancouver’s transportation network. On December 1, TransLink announced…

2 days ago

Aircraft maker Embraer admits hackers breached its systems and stole data

Embraer, a Brazilian manufacturer of aircraft, has disclosed that hackers managed to breach its computer systems, and steal data. Although…

3 days ago

Global Phishing Campaign Sets Sights on COVID-19 Cold Chain

A global phishing campaign targeted organizations associated with the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) cold chain. Discovered by IBM Security X-Force, the…

3 days ago

Email Attackers Using Auto-Forwarding Rules to Perpetrate BEC Scams

U.S. law enforcement learned that email attackers are using auto-forwarding rules to help them to perpetrate Business Email Compromise (BEC)…

4 days ago

Back-to-Work Phishing Campaign Targeting Corporate Email Accounts

A phishing campaign used what appeared to be back-to-work notifications in order to compromise recipients’ corporate email accounts. Near the…

6 days ago

Apple-Notarized Malware: What It Is and How It Affects Mac Users

Malicious actors are targeting Apple. Although Apple introduced a notarization mechanism to scan and prevent malicious code from running on…

2 weeks ago

From Alan Turing to Future Artificial Intelligences – Reading Security Signals

The notion that the time we are living in now is “unprecedented” is a common one, but historians and philosophers…

2 weeks ago

New Mount Locker Ransomware Version Targeting TurboTax Files

A new version of the Mount Locker crypto-ransomware strain is specifically targeting victims’ TurboTax files. As reported by Bleeping Computer,…

2 weeks ago

Egregor Ransomware Attack Hijacks Printers to Spit Out Ransom Notes

So, you’re a ransomware gang and you want to ensure that you have caught the attention of your latest corporate…

2 weeks ago

Phishers Using Redirector Sites with Custom Subdomains for Evasion

Malicious actors launched a phishing attack that’s using redirector websites with custom subdomains in order to evade detection. On November…

2 weeks ago