In the past, several cyber crime organizations pledged to stay away from the health care sector, with assurances that it’s money they’re after, not casualties. However, as COVID-19 has moved the workf…
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IOTW: Will There Be An Incident Of Impact On Tuesday’s Election?
The United States presidential election is four days away. Last Wednesday, government officials released a statement about Russian and Iranian hacking threats. On Thursday, more information followed….
IOTW: Despite Patch, Zerologon Attack Still A Big Deal
A more robust patch is scheduled to release in February of 2021. However, Microsoft predicts the new patch will permanently disable standing authentication procedures on some devices.
IOTW: Ethical Hackers Discover Several Apple Vulnerabilities—And The Payout May…
Ethical hackers recently participated in Apple’s vulnerability bounty program and scored big. Over the span of three months, five hackers, led by 20-year-old Sam Curry, uncovered 55 vulnerabilities. E…
IOTW: Government Sanctioned Russian Hackers Penetrate U.S. Federal Agency
It appears Fancy Bear, the Russian cyber crime group linked to the GRU, is responsible for a US federal agency break-in and data theft. Cyber experts piece together clues to garner more insight into t…
IOTW: World’s Third Largest Music Company Falls Prey To Magecart Attack
Protecting against Mageware attacks isn’t automatic or easily applied. It takes a team to develop a zero-trust strategy specifically regarding JavaScript that only allows specific scripts to access se…
IOTW: Online Fitness Organization V Shred Hesitantly Locks Down Some PII After E…
However, ethical hackers with the research group vpnMentor recently disclosed their discovery that over 99,000 V Shred clients and personal trainers have had personal information exposed through an un…
IOTW: Twitter Leaves Confidential Information Vulnerable—Again
User information was stored in the browser cache even after logging out of Twitter, leaving email addresses, contact numbers, and the last four digits of credit cards vulnerable.
IOTW: Hactivist Group Anonymous Leaks Police Department Intel
After a decade of relative inactivity, self-described hactivist group Anonymous takes credit for a 269-gigabyte data dump of police department, fusion center, and law enforcement files. Dubbed BlueLea…
IOTW: Shiny Hunters Is The New Threat Actor In Town
During the first two weeks of May, over 73 million user records across over at least 10 different organizations showed up on the dark web. The hacker group Shiny Hunters claims credit.