Infosecurity News

  1. UK Government: Sharing Some Passwords is Illegal

    Intellectual Property Office says it breaks copyright law

  2. Ransomware Attack Hits The Guardian Newspaper

    Staff told to work from home after compromise

  3. Researchers Develop AI-powered Malware Classification for 5G-enabled IIoT

    A team of researchers came up with an ingenuous method leveraging AI to detect and classify malware in IIoT devices

  4. Cyber-Incident Causes System Failures at Canadian Children's Hospital

    The ongoing incident has impacted clinical and corporate systems, as well as some hospital phone lines and webpages

  5. US Most Impacted by Data Breaches in the Financial Industry in 2022

    While 57% of these breaches were attributed to different types of malware, ATM skimming still accounted for 6.5% of all attacks targeting the financial sector

  6. UK Security Agency Wants Fresh Approach to Combat Phishing

    NCSC says "blame and fear" won’t work

  7. Adult Google Ad Fraud Campaign Garnered Millions of Impressions

    Fraudster used "popunders" and obfuscation to generate cash

  8. Godfather Trojan Targets 400 Financial Services Firms

    Mobile banking malware designed to steal bank and crypto credentials

  9. Organizations Warned of New Attack Vector in Amazon Web Services

    Researchers warned that threat actors could potentially exploit Elastic IP transfer and compromise an IP address

  10. UK Privacy Regulator Names and Shames Breached Firms

    ICO publishes detailed list of complaints and investigations

  11. Fortnite Dev to Pay $520m in Record-Breaking Settlement

    FTC reveals gaming firm's privacy violations and design tricks

  12. Ukraine's Delta Military Intel System Hit by Attacks

    Phishing campaign spotted by CERT-UA

  13. Ransomware Groups to Increase Zero-Day Exploit-Based Access Methods in the Future

    Trend Micro’s latest research paper analyzed ways in which ransomware groups could evolve to stay on top of strengthened cyber-protection measures

  14. Meta Takes Down Over 200 Covert Influence Operations Since 2017

    The most common location for influence operations was Russia, according to Meta

  15. Mobile App Users at Risk as API Keys of Email Marketing Services Exposed

    Leaked API keys allow threat actors to perform a variety of unauthorized actions

  16. NIST to Scrap SHA-1 Algorithm by 2030

    The agency said it will stop using SHA-1 in its last remaining specified protocols by December 31 2030

  17. API Vulnerabilities Discovered in LEGO Marketplace

    The vulnerabilities, which are now fixed, could have put sensitive customer data at risk

  18. Agenda Ransomware Switches to Rust to Attack Critical Infrastructure

    Victim companies have a combined revenue of around $550m

  19. Meta's Bug Bounty Program Shows $2m Awarded in 2022

    The total amount since the program's establishment in 2011 is reportedly $16m

  20. Social Blade Confirms Data Breach Exposing PII on the Dark Web

    The company confirmed the data does not include any credit card information

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