A survey from Akamai Technologies found that credential stuffing attacks on the media industry have increased in the last two years. According to the survey report “Akamai 2020 State of the Internet / Credential Stuffing in the Media Industry,”...
In a lethal strike to Twitter, Bitcoin scammers successfully hacked official accounts of many known personalities and brands to scam people into believing their money was soon going to be doubled. As many as 300+ transactions were recorded in...
Cybersecurity solutions provider Trend Micro warned users about a new wave of attacks targeting home routers. In its research report “Worm War: The Botnet Battle for IoT Territory,” Trend Micro revealed that cybercriminals are using home routers to build...
Today’s defenders can have reams of information and log data available to them, with databases chronicling known threats and attack patterns. Unfortunately, the information available in these databases is most effective against documented threats or those with extremely well-established...
Security researchers from Abnormal Security discovered a new phishing campaign targeting Microsoft Office 365 users via a legitimate SurveyMonkey domain to evade security filters. The hackers sent a lookalike SurveyMonkey domain link to Office 365 users prompting them to...
A survey from the web application security provider Tala Security revealed that cybercriminals are exploiting security vulnerabilities in websites to launch client-side attacks like Magecart, cross-site scripting, form-jacking, and credit card skimming. The survey “Global Data at Risk –...
Following in the footsteps of the U.S. and India, South Korea now seems to have tightened its grip around the China-based social media company, TikTok. South Korean telecommunication watchdog, Korea Communications Commission (KCC), found TikTok guilty of mishandling child...
Security researchers from Kaspersky found that cybercriminals are using thousands of inactive domains to redirect users to malicious URLs. According to Kaspersky, cybercriminals kept 1,000 inactive websites for sale on auction platforms, which redirected the visitors to over 2500 malicious...
Google Cloud Next ’20: OnAir kicked off today and Google announced new solutions across its smart data analytics and security portfolios, to help accelerate customers’ ability to digitally transform with cloud computing. The announcements concerning cloud security and compliance...
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