University of Sunderland Announces Outage Following Cyberattack The University of Sunderland in the UK has announced extensive operational issues that have taken most of its IT systems down, attributing the problem to a cyber-attack. The first signs of disruption for the university’s IT systems appeared in Tuesday morning, but remain widely impactful and unresolved. The attack appears
DocuSign Phishing Campaign Targets Low-ranking Employees Phishing actors are following a new trend of targeting non-executive employees but who still have access to valuable areas within an organization. As reported by Avanan researchers, half of all phishing emails they analyzed in recent months impersonated non-executives, and 77% of them targeted employees on the same level.
Google Sent 50,000 Warnings Of State-Sponsored Attacks In 2021 Google said today that it sent roughly 50,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or hacking attempts to customers during 2021, a considerable increase compared to the previous year. “So far in 2021, we’ve sent over 50,000 warnings, a nearly 33% increase from this time in 2020,” said Ajax
Malicious Chrome Ad Blocker Injects Ads Behind The Scenes The AllBlock Chromium ad blocking extension has been found to be injecting hidden affiliate links that generate commissions for the developers. This extension is still available on Chrome’s Web Store and promotes itself as an ad blocker that focuses on YouTube and Facebook to prevent pop-ups
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