Cybersecurity (General)

Two Charged For Hacking NBA, NFL Players’ Social Media Accounts The US Department of Justice charged two men for their involvement in the fraudulent takeover of email and social media accounts owned by multiple National Football League (NFL) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) athletes. Between December 2017 and April Read more…

QNAP Warns Customers Of Recent Wave Of Ransomware Attacks QNAP has issued an advisory about a recent wave of ransomware attacks targeting its NAS storage devices and encrypting files. Last week, BleepingComputer broke the story of ransomware known as AgeLocker attacking publicly exposed QNAP NAS devices. The ransomware gets its name from its Read more…

Swiss Watchmaker Swatch Shuts Down IT Systems To Stop Cyberattack Swiss watchmaker Swatch Group shut down its IT systems over the weekend after identifying a cyberattack targeting its organization. Swatch Group is a Swiss watchmaker known for its colorful watches commonly found in department stores and employs over 36,000 people Read more…

Fake Software Crack Sites Used To Push Exorcist 2.0 Ransomware The threat actors behind the Exorcist 2.0 ransomware are using malicious advertising to redirect victims to fake software crack sites that distribute their malware. According to security researcher Nao_Sec, PopCash malvertising is redirecting users from legitimate sites to a fake software crack Read more…

Police Crack SMS Phishing Operation Federal and New South Wales police in Australia say they’ve broken up a sophisticated SMS phishing scheme designed to collect personal details and bank login credentials. The investigation took more than a year. It’s a rare success in the fight against unsolicited text messages, which Read more…

Natwest And Malwarebytes Team Up To Provide Free Virus Protection Customers of National Westminster (NatWest) Bank are now eligible to receive a free copy of Malwarebytes Premium subscription for up to 10 devices. NatWest is a prominent British banking giant with upwards of 7.5 million personal banking customers and 850,000 small business accounts. In Read more…

Over 247K Exchange Servers Unpatched For Actively Exploited Flaw More than 247,000 Microsoft Exchange servers are yet to be patched against the CVE-2020-0688 post-auth remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability impacting all Exchange Server versions under support. The CVE-2020-0688 RCE flaw exists in the Exchange Control Panel (ECP) component — enabled Read more…

Cisco Fixes Actively Exploited Bugs In Carrier-Grade Routers Cisco fixed two actively exploited and high severity memory exhaustion DoS vulnerabilities found in the IOS XR software that runs on multiple carrier-grade routers. The Cisco IOS XR Network OS is deployed on several router platforms including the NCS 540 & 560, NCS 5500, 8000, and ASR 9000 Read more…

FBI Warns Of Disinformation Campaigns About Hacked Voter Systems The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today issued a joint public service announcement about the threat of disinformation campaigns targeting the 2020 US election season. Threat actors actively spreading false information about successfully Read more…