According to a new report published by Check Point, organizations in the healthcare industry have faced a 45% increase in attacks since November. Check Point researchers reported a surge in the number of attacks against organizations in the healthcare industry, +45% since November. This is more than double the overall increase observed by the experts […]
The gaming industry under attack, Over 500,000 credentials for the top two dozen leading gaming firms, including Ubisoft, leaked online. The gaming industry is a privileged target for threat actors, threat actors leaked online over 500,000 stolen credentials belonging to the top 25 gaming firms. The alarm was raised by the threat intelligence firm Kela […]
A German security researcher demonstrated how to break, once again, the Google Audio reCAPTCHA with Google’s own Speech to Text API. Back in 2017, researchers from the University of Maryland demonstrated an attack method, dubbed unCaptcha, against Google’s audio-based reCAPTCHA v2. The system receives the audio challenge, downloads it, and submits it to Speech To […]
Researchers from security firms Profero and Security Joes linked a series of ransomware attacks to the China-linked APT27 group. Security researchers from security firms Profero and Security Joes investigated a series of ransomware attacks against multiple organizations and linked them to China-linked APT groups. The experts attribute the attacks to the Chinese cyberespionage group APT27 […]
At-home laboratory services provider Apex Laboratory discloses a ransomware attack and consequent data breach. Apex Laboratory, Inc. is a clinical laboratory that has been providing home laboratory services to homebound and Nursing Home patients in the NY Metropolitan Area for over 20 years. The at-home laboratory services provider Apex Laboratory disclosed a ransomware attack, the […]
A British court has rejected the request of the US government to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the country. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the US to stand trial, the Westminster Magistrates’ Court has rejected the US government’s request to extradite him on charges related to illegally obtaining and sharing […]
Security expert spotted a new piece of malware that leverages weaponized Word documents to download a PowerShell script from GitHub. Security expert discovered a new piece of malware uses weaponized Word documents to download a PowerShell script from GitHub. This PowerShell script is also used by threat actors to download a legitimate image file from image hosting […]
During a routine Dark web monitoring, the Research team at Cyble found threat actors selling 200 million+ Records of Chinese Citizens. During a routine Dark web monitoring, the Research team at Cyble found multiple posts where threat actors are offering for sale alleged data leaks related to Chinese citizens. Data might have been stolen from […]
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NCA arrested 21 people in the UK as part of an operation targeting customers of WeLeakInfo service that advertised stolen personal credentials. 21 people have been arrested in the UK as part of an operation against customers of the WeLeakInfo[.]com service that had been previously selling access to data from data breaches. WeLeakInfo.com was a […]