MacKenzie Scott Grant Scam More Widespread Than Initially Thought A massive phishing campaign reaching tens of thousands of inboxes impersonated the MacKenzie Bezos-Scott grant foundation promising financial benefits to recipients in exchange of a processing fee. Known as an “advance fee,” this scam has been practiced since before then internet Read more…
US DOJ: Phishing Attacks Use Vaccine Surveys To Steal Personal Info The US Department of Justice warns of phishing attacks using fake post-vaccine surveys to steal money from people or tricking them into handing over their personal information. Attackers promise potential victims cash or prizes for filling out the fake Read more…
Coinhive Domain Repurposed To Warn Visitors Of Hacked Sites, Routers After taking over the domains for the notorious Coinhive in-browsing Monero mining service, a researcher is now displaying alerts on hacked websites that are still injecting the mining service’s JavaScript. CoinHive was an in-browser cryptocurrency mining platform that allowed websites Read more…
VMware Fixes Authentication Bypass In Data Center Security Software VMware has addressed a critical vulnerability in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance that could allow attackers to bypass authentication after exploiting vulnerable servers. VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload is a Linux data center security software designed to protect workloads running Read more…
Microsoft Fixes Outlook ‘Cannot Send This Item’ Email Bug Microsoft has fixed an Outlook bug that blocked users from forwarding or replying to emails containing embedded hyperlinks pointing to long URLs. Outlook for PC users experiencing this issue are seeing “Cannot send this item” errors according to customers’ reports on Microsoft’s community Read more…
Ubiquiti Confirms Extortion Attempt Following Security Breach Networking device maker Ubiquiti has confirmed that it was the target of an extortion attempt following a January security breach, as revealed by a whistleblower earlier this week. The company, however, didn’t confirm the whistleblower’s claims that user data was accessed during the Read more…
Ubiquiti Cyberattack May Be Far Worse Than Originally Disclosed The data breach report from Ubiquiti in January is allegedly a cover-up of a massive incident that put at risk customer data and devices deployed on corporate and home networks. In the short communication, the company said that an attacker had accessed Read more…
800Gbps DDoS Extortion Attack Hits Gambling Company Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks started strong this year, setting new records and taking the extortion trend that started last August to the next level. Internet security services company Akamai has already dealt with the largest known ransom DDoS (RDDoS) attack, which was also Read more…
Microsoft Kills Off The Cortana App For Android And iOS While Cortana is evolving and it’s here to stay, it’s no secret that most people prefer Google Assistant, Siri, and even Amazon Alexa over Microsoft’s digital assistant. Microsoft’s digital assistant Cortana was first unveiled with Windows Phones, and it was Read more…
CISA Gives Federal Agencies 5 Days To Find Hacked Exchange Servers The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered federal agencies to scan their networks again for any signs of compromised on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers and report their findings within five days. CISA issued another directive ordering federal agencies to urgently Read more…
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