Chinese Hackers Believed to be Behind Second Cyberattack on Air India
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Even as a massive data breach affecting Air India came to light the previous month, India's flag carrier airline appears to have suffered a separate cyber assault...
NoxPlayer Supply-Chain Attack is Likely the Work of Gelsemium Hackers
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A new cyber espionage group named Gelsemium has been linked to a supply chain attack targeting the NoxPlayer Android emulator that was disclosed earlier this year.
The findings...
McDonald’s operations in South Korea and Taiwan hit by data breach
McDonald’s Corp, the world’s largest burger chain, said on Friday that a data breach in South Korea and Taiwan has exposed some customer and employee information, making it the...
Using Breached Password Detection Services to Prevent Cyberattack
By: The Hacker News
Bolstering password policies in your organization is an important part of a robust cybersecurity strategy. Cybercriminals are using compromised accounts as one of their favorite tactics...
How a Resident Evil image leaked in a ransomware attack ended up in the...
We look at a bizarre unintended consequence arising from a ransomware attack on game developer Capcom last November.
Back in November, gaming giant Capcom suffered a ransomware attack. In...
Lewd Phishing Lures Aimed at Business Explode
Socially engineered BEC attacks using X-rated material spike 974 percent.
Attackers have amped up their use of X-rated phishing lures in business email compromise (BEC) attacks. A new report found...
U.S. Recovers $2.3 Million Ransom Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
In a major blow, the U.S. Department of Justice on Monday said it has recovered 63.7 bitcoins (currently valued at $2.3 million) paid by Colonial Pipeline to...
Hackers Breached Colonial Pipeline Using Compromised VPN Password
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
The ransomware cartel that masterminded the Colonial Pipeline attack early last month crippled the pipeline operator's network using a compromised virtual private network (VPN) account password, the...
