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Queen Elizabeth II’s death used in credential harvesting

28 Sep 2022

Proofpoint’s Threat Insight Team reveled on 14th September 2022 that threat actors are employing phishing attacks with a “death of Queen Elizabeth II” theme. Users are tricked into visiting malicious websites created for credential harvesting. Proofpoint identified a credential #phish campaign using lures related to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Messages purported to be from […]

Starbucks Suffers Data Breach

23 Sep 2022

The Straits Times published an article on a data breach involving a US coffee shop company Starbucks that affected the personal information of 330,000 Singaporean consumers on September 17, 2022. Starbucks operates 33,833 outlets across 80 nations and is one of the largest coffeehouse chain in the world. Threat actors advertised the database of the […]

Ransomware Rise – All you need to know

16 Sep 2022

What is Ransomware? Ransomware is a form of malware made to prevent users or organizations from accessing files on a computer. In simple terms it encryptsfiles on a device and make them unusable. Cyber attackers put an organization in a situation where paying the ransom is the quickest and least expensive option to recover access […]

Uber internal system breached

16 Sep 2022

Following news that a hacker had gained access to Uber’s network and forced it to shut down various internal communications and engineering systems, the firm stated on Thursday that it is reacting to a cybersecurity incident. The New York Times who first reported on this breached stated, quoting an Uber representative that a hacker infiltrated […]

Customer email addresses of DigitalOcean were compromised by a recent MailChimp breach

14 Sep 2022

A security advisory about a hack on its email service provider MailChimp that had an impact on its clients was just recently published by a security researcher from the cloud hosting company Digital Ocean. To notify consumers of password resets, email confirmations, and product-related alerts, the business engaged this email service provider. “On August 8, […]

SharkBot Malware Returned to Google Play Store

7 Sep 2022

SharkBot malware has returned in a fresh and upgraded edition, according to a post published by security news website Bleeping Computer. The malware started showing up in October 2021 is targeting Android users’ banking credentials. The malware can carry out “overlay attacks, steal data through keylogging, intercept SMS messages, or give threat actors complete remote […]

Last Pass Source Code Exposed in Data Breach

31 Aug 2022

On 25th August 2022, Last pass company published a data breach notification affirming that threat actors had compromised its source code. Around 33 million people and 100,000 businesses are utilizing this product and is one of the largest password management firm in the world. We recently detected unusual activity within portions of the LastPass development […]

VLC Media Player website banned in India

25 Aug 2022

VLC Media Player one of India’s most popular media players has being banned in the country. User can’t download the program’s executable file (windows exe file) for installation as the VLC Media Player website doesn’t works in India anymore. However, if you already have VLC media player installed and the exe file already downloaded there […]

Cisco Confirms Breached By Ransomware Group

12 Aug 2022

Cisco has confirmed that the Yanluowang ransomware group was hacked their data. This happens when the Yanluowang ransomware group publishes a partial list of files which was stolen from cisco. Cisco stated that they become aware of a breach on 24th May 2022 and has been working to remediate since then. “During the investigation, it […]

Twitter confirms that a data breach has affected millions of accounts

8 Aug 2022

On 5th August 2022, Twitter released a security advisory saying, “In January 2022, we received a report through our bug bounty program of a vulnerability in Twitter’s systems. As a result of the vulnerability, if someone submitted an email address or phone number to Twitter’s systems, Twitter’s systems would tell the person what Twitter account […]

New Android Apps in the Play Store Contain Malware

28 Jul 2022

In the recent, write up by Dr.Web on virus activity on mobile devices he mentioned that he has discovered many malicious apps. “Over the month, Doctor Web’s malware analysts discovered dozens of malicious apps on Google Play. Among them were adware trojans, fake apps used by scammers, info-stealers targeting confidential data, and others.” 30 applications […]

Is Microsoft Teams down?

21 Jul 2022

On July 21st on the official Microsoft twitter account for update on certain service incidents said that they are investigating an outage where users were unable to access Microsoft Teams or leverage any features on the app, but have not disclose any details on how many users were affected. We’ve received reports of users being […]