Weekly Cybersecurity Round-Up
Last week, cybersecurity researchers discovered a new threat called DarkUniverse and a mysterious hacker exposed IronMarch website contents.
Last week, cybersecurity researchers discovered a new threat called DarkUniverse and a mysterious hacker exposed IronMarch website contents.
A researcher claims to discover Honda’s ElasticSearch database that exposes the internal system and device data. The discovery revealed a database containing 40GB of internal…
The division’s first Director of Cybersecurity is Anne Neuberger.
An average person would share a significant amount of personal and identifiable data over the internet to different platforms every time they log in to…
There are many dating apps targeted to the LGBTQ people are unsafe to use and have had a history of leaking personal information of its…
The number of companies and organizations that have been hacked and the amount of data that have been leaked online is scary. Governments are not…
Facebook confirms Thursday last week that hundred and millions of user passwords were being stored in a “readable form” that allows thousands of its employees…
There is no way that one can downplay the gravity of the world’s data security problem. Day after day, reports of a new database from…
Mobile payment and financial platforms are selling your data including your email, location, and transaction details to the highest third-party bidder, a tech researcher and…
In the past year alone, the health industry has seen mounds of reports of security breaches and data leak in their systems that have compromised…
A new year of New Year’s Resolutions and a progressively faster march down into an insecure world which is even more important these days in…
Tarmac malware is now targeting Mac users in the U.S., Japan, and Italy.
More than 1 million people were affected by the data breach, the FTC said.
The influence of bots to the 2020 election will not be limited to trying to change public opinions, bots could also take down the voting system.
The rate is also negotiable to those who can guarantee an impressive level of infection using the Busan ransomware.
The discovery follows a tip on the NSA’s biggest breach in history.
Alexa users around the world have had their data compromised after an Asus wi-fi controller app has leaked information in an unprotected Elasticsearch database, a…
Bitcoin exchanges and trading platforms are no strangers to data breaches. But it’s a completely different story if one of them inadvertently disclosed user emails to other users, just like BitMex.
The malware infects an average of 131 Android devices every day.
Georgia experienced the worst cyber-attack in history, crippling and defacing at least 15,000 websites.
Cyberscurity researchers found an unprotected database containing Adobe Creative Cloud users’ emails.
The malvertising campaign triggers the purchase of premium services without the users’ knowledge.
The government of India has called for huge tech companies to bid for their most ambitious facial recognition technology project.
It’s poetic justice but it also means that 26 million credit card data has been stolen twice.
They are now called “Dukes.”
The researchers said that their discovery was “serious,” but they expect Google to patch the zero-days soon.
The unprotected database is hosted in an Elastic server and was available to the public since August 9, 2019.
Earlier this week, it was reported that Apple decided to remove a Hong Kong police-tracking application from the App Store after receiving criticism from the…
Apple, on Wednesday, removed an app called HKmap.live that protestors in Hong Kong used to track police movements in its latest move of subservience to…
Phishing campaigns have grown more than 400% from January to June in 2019, and attackers are becoming more sophisticated in their tactics by using a…
Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate has passed new law that would compel the government to issue bigger support to organizations that have fallen victims to…
Popular food delivery start-up, DoorDash, is once again in hot water after a hacker has gained access to its database and compromised the data of…
A team of cybersecurity experts has discovered an unprotected online database that exposes not only personally identifiable information of more than 70,000 individuals but also…
A week after Apple has released its much-awaited iOS 13 updates for its devices, the company issued yet another warning that there is a bug…
An Eslasticsearch database has been discovered and the data breach leaked sensitive and personally identifiable information from the majority of the population in Ecuador, a…
CamScanner, a popular application that allows users to scan images of documents and save them as PDF files, said in a statement that they will…
Apple finally patched a vulnerability that leads to the development of a publicly available jailbreak code with a new update, Monday. The company has previously…
A recent report on online fraud and abuse revealed that more than half of the login attempts on social media are made by scammers. The…
Another day, another hacking activity has been flagged by a group of security researchers. This time, they were able to detect a hacking campaign that…
Ted Carrier, the SAIC employees who accused the cyber defense contractor to the U.S. Central Command of giving their employees “undue help” to “cheat” in…
VMware has just revealed via official documentation the finalization of its proceedings to acquire both Pivotal Sofware and Carbon Black, for $2.7 billion and $2.1…
The U.S. Central Command is investigating the anomaly involving the testing center that grants et hical hacking certifications for government contractors who are supposed to…
Tens of thousands of subscribers of the movie ticket subscription service, MoviePass, had their credit card information exposed to the wild when a critical database…
More than 20 local government agencies and institutions in Texas have reported that on August 16, 2019, a coordinated, massive, ransomware attack has affected their…
A recently patched vulnerability in iOS has been unpatched accidentally in the newly available update that leads to a jailbreak. After fixing a vulnerability in…
The attack affected websites from the U.S., U.K., New Zealand, and South Africa.
Biostar’s clients include banks, government agencies, and the UK Metropolitan Police.
There are countless numbers of victims being targeted by ransomware, and it had become a major threat to the technological system. People have been getting…
Is it poetic justice being served?
The study came out a few days after Microsoft warned companies that Russian hackers are using VoIP phones to infiltrate corporate networks.
There was a flaw in the liveness detection function of the biometric authentication system that is used by Apple for unlocking an iPhone using face…
Android phones from small-time smartphone manufacturers are more likely to fall victim to preinstalled malware and exploitation in Android’s open-source system than major phone manufacturers…
Amazon S3 Buckets aren’t just your problem with Amazon Cloud; there are also EBS Snapshots.
Having a secured phone with no third-party intruders can snoop in is bliss for consumers; however, for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FB), it is…
More than 100 million Steam clients and users are at risk of serious cybersecurity risk as an unpatched zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability can allow attackers…
Half of the destructive malware incidents assisted by IBM’s X-Force Iris incident response team are companies in the manufacturing industry.
Several German businesses and organizations have been targeted by a sophisticated and ruthless ransomware attack that did not only ubiquitously demand ransom but also wipes…
The new malware is also being sold in underground marketplaces.
The prevalence of Android ransomware is back as announced by a group of cybersecurity researchers who discovered that a new family of ransomware is circulating…
For only $6, you can now purchase a hacked Deliveroo account from the dark web, which you can use to order food from different establishments…
The Bulgarian police are investigating last week’s attack on the country’s tax systems. The suspect — who’s already in custody — is a member of…
Cybersecurity researchers have warned users of the popular multimedia player, VLC, of a “critical” vulnerability that could expose them to potential risks once exploited by…
The threat actors are using LinkedIn to send malicious documents.
With data breaches and cyberattacks happening every day that affects millions of companies around the world, the cost of containing a breach and dealing with…
The credit reporting company has finally settled a deal with the Federal Trade Commission.
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The United States has successfully put down an Iranian drone using a new technology it commissioned to use in the sea for the first time…
Adware may not attempt to steal our money, but they use us to fake numbers for advertisers to pay them more.
The data was being sold by the online analytics company “Nacho Analytics.”
While no active hacking is happening, security experts believe that the discovery carries heavy implications.
Two separate data breach have affected 62 US colleges and more than 7 million users of the K12.com, with vulnerabilites already exploited by hackers.
The compromised data include sensitive financial information like card numbers and financial records.
Within the last few months, a malvertiser has been pushing malicious tech support scam ads to users of Outlook, and other Microsoft owned apps in…
Clinical Pathology Laboratories blamed AMCA for not providing them enough information back in June.
They were taken from people’s social media accounts, websites, social media, photo sharing, and online dating platforms, and also taken by digital cameras in public places, as well as, unencrypted communications.
The new meme is taking over social media and allows you to see what your 40 or 50-years-old self look like.
It’s called MobonoGram 2019.
Eleven gigabytes of data were extracted in 57 databases from Bulgaria’s National Revenue Agency.
A malware that has existed since 2016 has been noticed once more; this time, the researchers who discovered the malware said that it has evolved…
They said the recordings they heard were anonymous.
British Airways (BA) will face a fine of $230 million (£183m) for the hacking incident in their systems last year. The fine is said to…
They are looking for Islam-related files.
Another update, another problem for Windows.
We talked with Orvibo and the researchers who discovered the open database, both parties confirmed fixes.
As exact as latitude and longitude coordinates.
And this is not the first time they tried to move to bypass encryption mechanisms.
[bctt tweet=”Nine states have updated their data breach notification laws to expand the definition of a data breach and to prescribe a timeline for companies to notify victims of the data breach.” username=”Z6Mag”]
Medtronic MiniMed recalls some of its insulin pumps after the US Food and Drug Administration warned the company that some of its products are vulnerable…
Cybersecurity experts in three different separate research have confirmed the existence of a new surveillance tool used by Chinese police to spy on their citizen,…
Operation Soft Cell has been operating since 2012.
To cease the fire between the U.S. and China, a company that manufactures drones in America, will try to please the federal and local government…
It runs through an app impersonating a Turkish crypto exchange app.
The U.S. Cyber Command, with the green light from President Trump, launched a cyber attack against Iran’s missile launching systems.
Dating apps have been growing in popularity, especially among millennials, but it appears that with a new study, dating apps aren’t just building new relationships;…
The data breach exposed financial information including SSN and credit card information of more than 20 million Americans who used the AMCA billing portal.
[bctt tweet=”Florida city, Riviera Beach pays a ransom of nearly $600,000 to hackers as government transactions have faced delays and rebuilding computer systems are too costly” username=”Z6Mag”]
Will Libra survive a storm coming?
[bctt tweet=”Apple is considering moving out15%-30% of its production from China to other Southeast Asian countries and Mexico, reports suggest.” username=”Z6Mag”]
The touting may lead to a digital cold war.
[bctt tweet=”Half of the growing cyber attacks in the Middle Easts, especially in the UAE, has targeted oil and gas companies, Dark Matter revealed.” username=”Z6Mag”]