Tag: Cybercriminals
Home Depot Settles 2014 Data Breach Lawsuit for $17.5 Mn
The popular U.S. home improvement retailer Home Depot Inc. has agreed to pay $17.5 million to settle a multistate investigation related to a data...
Fine-tune Your Passwords! Researchers Find Hackers Targeting Spotify Users
Security experts from vpnMentor uncovered a potential credential stuffing attack exploiting the personal data of Spotify users. The researchers found an unencrypted Elasticsearch database...
Find the Fake! FBI Warns About Spoofed Website Domain Names
The FBI is warning users to be vigilant about fraudulent websites impersonating FBI-related domain names. In a security release, the FBI stated that it...
Hanna Andersson to Pay $400K to Settle CCPA-related Class-Action Lawsuit
Hanna Andersson, U.S.-based kids wear retailer, has agreed to pay $400,000 to settle a data breach lawsuit related to the California Consumer Privacy Act...
How Cybercriminals Abuse AI and ML for Launching Sophisticated Cyberattacks
Threat actors can misuse advanced technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to launch sophisticated cyberattacks and invent new kinds of malicious...
The Right Data Integrity Approach Will Ramp Up Your Cyber Protection...
Way back in 2018, cyber threats were prevalent, but those were simple attacks that penetrated the data center and randomly encrypted data, holding it...
Surge in Online Shopping is a Special Offer for Cybercriminals: McAfee
Despite the awareness on increased risks and scams in the e-commerce sector, customers still plan to shop more online with a whopping 36% of...
Lazarus Strikes Again, Attacks Supply Chain in South Korea
Security researchers from ESET found cybercriminals linked to North-Korean Lazarus group targeting South Korean supply-chains. It was found that attackers exploited legitimate South Korean...
Cybercriminals Move to Cloud! Hackers Selling Credentials via “Cloud of Logs”
A new research from Trend Micro revealed that cybercriminals are using cloud services to accelerate their attacks, in turn decreasing the amount of time...
6 Steps to Boost your Online Security
The year 2020 is certainly considered as the year of change. The pandemic has changed/impacted every facet of life — from the way we...
