In a landmark judgment, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) annulled the “EU-U.S. Privacy Shield,” which was introduced in July 2016. The ECJ found that the transatlantic data transfer framework did not abide by the data security rights of...
A hacker going by the name “NightLion” claimed to have stolen 8,200 backend servers of threat intelligence and data leak monitoring service Data Viper, according to a report from KrebsonSecurity. The hacker also alleged that they are selling around...
Security researchers from ThreatFabric discovered a new banking Trojan "BlackRock," which is targeting Android banking apps and also stealing login credentials from social networking sites, dating and cryptocurrency, and non-banking apps.
It is found that the malware targeted over 337...
The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has forced governments, organizations, and individuals to step up their capacities and make significant changes in how they work and live. And with that, the threat landscape has also evolved completely as cybercriminals continue to...
A report from Specops Software stated that the U.S., the U.K., India, and Germany have suffered significant cyberattacks over the past 14 years. Specops defined “significant cyberattacks” as attacks targeted at a country’s government agencies, defense units, high-tech organizations...
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...
