AI Tool WormGPT Enables Convincing Fake Emails For BEC Attacks
A generative AI tool, WormGPT, has emerged as a powerful weapon in the hands of cyber-criminals, specifically for launching business...
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Phishy calls and emails play on energy cost increase fears
Gas and electricity price concerns are rife at the moment, with spiralling costs and bigger increases waiting down the line....
To settle with the DoJ, Uber must confess to a cover-up. And it did.
Uber covered up the 2016 data breach that affected its 57 million customers and drivers. The confession came as part...
PrestaShop warns of vulnerability: Update your stores now!
A vulnerability affecting open source e-commerce platform PrestaShop could spell trouble for servers running PrestaShop websites. The 15-year-old organisation’s platform...
Microsoft clamps down on RDP brute-force attacks in Windows 11
It wasn’t so long ago that we were wondering what improvements Windows 11 would make in the security stakes. Well,...
Lock down your Neopets account: Data breach being investigated
Bad news for players of long-time virtual pet management title Neopets. Word is spreading of a compromise claimed to have...
Roblox breached: Internal documents posted online by unknown attackers
A data compromise situation has impacted Roblox Corporation, the developers of the massive smash-hit video game Roblox. An as-yet unknown...
WhatsApp warns users: Fake versions of WhatsApp are trying to steal your personal info
WhatsApp boss Will Cathcart is warning users of the popular messaging app to be on their guard after the WhatsApp...
Fake job offer leads to $600 million theft
Back in March, popular NFT battler Axie Infinity lay at the heart of a huge cryptocurrency theft inflicted on the...
Report: Brazil must do more to encrypt, back up data
Federal government organisations in Brazil may need to reassess their approach to cyberthreats, according to a new report by the...
Insider Threat: Employees indicted for stealing $88 million of license keys
Two insiders and an accomplice were indicted on Tuesday for multiple counts of fraud. According to documents unsealed by the...
Raccoon Stealer returns with a new bag of tricks
The popular malware Raccoon stealer, which suspended operations after a developer allegedly died in the Ukraine invasion, has returned. Raccoon...
Immigration organisations targeted by APT group Evilnum
Organisations working in the immigration sector are advised to be on high alert for Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks. Bleeping...
You only have nine months to ditch Exchange Server 2013
Microsoft has posted a reminder that Exchange Server 2013 reaches End of Support (EoS) on April 11, 2023. That’s a...
DDoS-for-hire service provider jailed
Matthew Gatrel, a 33-year-old man from St. Charles, Illinois, has been sentenced to two years in prison for running websites...
A new rootkit comes to an ATM near you
It’s not unusual to hear about malware created to affect automated teller machines (ATMs). Malware can be planted at the...
Globant suffers network breach due to LAPSUS$ compromise
Globant, an IT and software development firm with offices all around the globe, admitted in a press statement Wednesday that...
Apple’s child safety features are coming to a Messages app near you
Apple will soon be rolling out its promised child safety features in the Messages app for users in Australia, Canada,...
Emotet fixes bug in code, resumes spam campaign
Emotet threat actors resumed their email spam campaign on Monday after stopping it late last week to fix a bug....
Karakurt extortion group: Threat profile
The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), together with CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) and other federal agencies, recently released...
Threat profile: RansomHouse makes extortion work without ransomware
Cybersecurity is an industry known for many hats: white hats, black hats, and grey hats. White hats refer to “the...
Email compromise leads to healthcare data breach at Kaiser Permanente
At least 69,000 people have been impacted by a data breach at Kaiser Permanente, a long-running managed healthcare consortium. The...
Record breaking HTTPS DDoS attack
Last week, Cloudflare blocked the largest HTTPS DDoS attack on record. The attack amassed some 26 million requests per second...
