The cumulative volume of coronavirus-related email lures and other threats is the largest collection of attack types exploiting a single theme for years, possibly ever. The total volume of phishing emails and other security threats relating to the Covid-19 coronavirus now represents the largest coalescing of cyber...
Organisations in the UK and Netherlands are more exposed to high-risk vulnerabilities than any others in Europe, with misconfiguration a major challenge, according to new data from Outpost24. The security provider analysed vulnerability data collected from over two million assets across 10 markets, over a 12-month period...
Security experts say a spike in email scams linked to coronavirus is the worst they have seen in years. Cyber-criminals are targeting individuals as well as industries, including aerospace, transport, manufacturing, hospitality, healthcare and insurance. Phishing emails written in English, French, Italian, Japanese, and Turkish languages have...
The email addresses and travel details of about 10,000 people who used free wi-fi at UK railway stations have been exposed online. Network Rail and the service provider C3UK confirmed the incident three days after being contacted by BBC News about the matter....
(Image credit: GettyImages) A Virgin Media database containing the personal details of 900,000 people was left unsecured and accessible online for 10 months, the company has admitted. The information was accessed "on at least one occasion" by an unknown user. The database, which was for marketing purposes, contained...
(Image credit: Shutterstock) Hackers employed a clever trick to get users to enable macros in a malicious Word document. The cybercriminals behind a recent phishing campaign used a fake Norton LifeLock document in order to trick victims into installing a remote access trojan (RAT) on their systems. The infection begins...
(Image credit: Shutterstock.com / Tharnapoom Voranavin) Employee and user data leaked due to unsecured server. Sporting company Decathlon has suffered a massive data breach exposing records of over 123 million users and employees. According to researchers at vpnMentor, more than 9GB of data was leaked from an unsecured ElasticSearch...
A new variant of the notorious Emotet Windows malware is able to spread wirelessly by brute-forcing Wi-Fi network passwords and scanning for shared drives to infect. The wormification of the trojan attack was detected by researchers at Binary Defense, who this month reported that the technique...
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Software nasties targeted at MacOS are on the increase faster than ones for Windows, according to antivirus biz Malwarebytes. Malicious software targeting users of Apple Macs has leapt over the last year, the security outfit said in its latest State of Malware report. Describing this as an...
