FBI Reveals Cryptocurrency Hacks & Cyebrcrime Rose 75% During COVID-19 Pandemic
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Online crime increased by 75% during the COVID-10 pandemicSome of the crimes are enabled by cryptocurrencies, due to which increased regulations are being proposedWork-from-home employees are targeted by...
In 2020 about 13% of all phishing attacks are related to COVID-19
In the first quarter of 2020, 22.5% more cyber attacks were detected than in the fourth quarter of 2019.
Positive Technologies experts analyzed cyber attacks in the first quarter of...
Misconfigured Kubernetes Target Of XMRig Mining Campaign
XMRig Campaign Target Misconfigured Kubernetes to Mine Cryptocurrency
Kubernetes clusters, due to their cloud computing capabilities and widespread use, are the perfect target for crypto-mining campaigns. A widespread XMRig Monero-mining...
Major DDoS Cyberattack Dismissed As T-Mobile Misconfiguration
Security experts say there is no evidence the U.S. was hit by a major DDoS cyberattack this week—despite rampant social media speculation.
Yesterday, rumors circulated on Twitter after telecom operators, games, social networks, banks and...
Coordinated DDoS Attack on US Service Providers
Anonymous Tweets U.S. Hit By Major DDoS Attack on June 15
Following a massive cell phone service outage that affected hundreds of thousands T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint customers on Monday,...
Air gapped hacking becoming a treasure trove of data for Hackers
Air-Gapped Systems are Becoming a Treasure Trove for Attackers
For years, air-gapping has been recommend as a standard cybersecurity practice to protect sensitive systems and networks. Often, organizations isolate their...
APT Gamaredon Using New Hacking Tools For Microsoft Outlook, Excel & Office
Gamaredon Hackers Using New Tools for Microsoft Outlook, Office, and Excel
A Russia-linked APT group named Gamaredon (aka Primitive Bear) has been using several undocumented post-compromise tools in various malicious...
Information suggests extraordinary interest for hacking and cybercrime during pandemic
Author: Edvardas Mikalauskas
With unemployment rates skyrocketing across the world as prolonged COVID-19 lockdowns continue to wreck the global economy, people who are forced to stay at home without a...
Indian IT Company Was Hired to Hack Politicians, Investors, Journalists Worldwide
Author: Wang Wei from TheHackerNews
A team of cybersecurity researchers today outed a little-known Indian IT firm that has secretly been operating as a global hackers-for-hire service or hacking-as-a-service platform.
Based...
400,000 Korean Credit Cards Leaked Overseas
SEOUL, June 8 (Yonhap) -- Details of some 900,000 credit cards held by South Koreans were leaked and traded on overseas online black markets, South Korea's credit association said...
