Aleksei Burkov is a Russian accused of being involved in more than $20 million in credit-card frauds, has been extradited to the US to face criminal charges. Aleksei Burkov (29) is a Russian man accused of running an online criminal marketplace, called Cardplanet, that helped crooks to organize more than $20 million in credit card […]
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for November 2019 address over 70 flaws, including an Internet Explorer issue (CVE-2019-1429) that has been exploited in attacks in the wild. Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for November 2019 address 74 flaws, including an Internet Explorer vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1429, that has been exploited in the wild. Microsoft doesn’t provide any […]
On Sunday, the Mexican state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) was infected with the DoppelPaymer ransomware. On Sunday, a piece of the DoppelPaymer ransomware infected systems of the Mexican state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) taking down part of its network. According to the company, less than 5% of the computers in its network were […]
New problems for Facebook, it seems that the social networking giant is secretly using the camera while iPhone users are scrolling their feed. Is this another privacy issue for Facebook? The iPhone users Joshua Maddux speculates that Facebook might be actively using your camera without your knowledge while you’re scrolling your feed. Maddux published footage […]
The analysis of a malicious email revealed a possible raising interest of the TA505 cybercrime gang in system integrator companies. Introduction During a normal monitoring activity, one of the detection tools hits a suspicious email coming from the validtree.com domain. The domain was protected by a Panama company to hide its real registrant and this […]
The recently discovered ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) Buran attempts to gain popularity by offering discounted licenses. In May, researchers from McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research Team discovered a new piece of ransomware named ‘Buran.’ Buran is offered as a RaaS model, but unlike other ransomware families such as REVil, GandCrab the authors take 25% of the income earned […]
Researchers from Radware reported that massive TCP SYN-ACK DDoS reflection attacks hit Amazon, SoftLayer and telecom infrastructure in the last month. Researchers from Radware are warning of a wave of TCP SYN-ACK DDoS reflection attacks that in the last 30 days hit Amazon, SoftLayer and telecom infrastructure. “Over the last 30 days, Radware has observed […]
Crowdsourced security platform Bugcrowd announced it paid over $500,000 in bug bounty rewards during the last week of October. Bug bounty program could represent an excellent opportunity to monetize your passion, in just one week crowdsourced security platform Bugcrowd announced it paid over $500,000 in bug bounty rewards at the end of October. Bugcrowd is […]
This is really an embarrassing incident, ZoneAlarm forum site has suffered a data breach exposing data of its discussion forum users. ZonaAlarm, the popular security software firm owned by Check Point Technologies, has suffered a data breach. According to the post published by The Hacker News, the security breach exposed the data of ZonaAlarm discussion […]
The Global Cyber Security Center has developed a tool named CERTrating to evaluate the Maturity Level of CERTs and services provided to the Constituency Cyber-attacks that have occurred in recent years have fully confirmed that Cybersecurity is an increasingly complex challenge that represents a priority for all companies both in terms of development and investments. […]