American Radio Relay League cyberattack takes Logbook of the World offline
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) warns it suffered a cyberattack, which disrupted its IT systems and online operations, including email and the Logbook of the…
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Banking malware Grandoreiro returns after police disruption
The banking trojan “Grandoreiro” is spreading in a large-scale phishing campaign in over 60 countries, targeting customer accounts of roughly 1,500 banks. In January 2024, an international…
CISA warns of hackers exploiting Chrome, EoL D-Link bugs
The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added three security vulnerabilities to its ‘Known Exploited Vulnerabilities’ catalog, one impacting Google Chrome and two affecting…
Frustration grows over Google’s AI Overviews feature, how to disable
Since Google enabled its AI-powered search feature, many people have tried and failed to disable the often incorrect AI Overviews feature in regular search results.…
Ransomware gang targets Windows admins via PuTTy, WinSCP malvertising
A ransomware operation targets Windows system administrators by taking out Google ads to promote fake download sites for Putty and WinSCP. WinSCP and Putty are popular Windows…
Android malware Grandoreiro returns after police disruption
The Android banking trojan “Grandoreiro” is spreading in a large-scale phishing campaign in over 60 countries, targeting customer accounts of roughly 1,500 banks. In January 2024, an…
The Week in Ransomware – May 17th 2024
This week was pretty quiet on the ransomware front, with most of the attention on the seizure of the BreachForums data theft forum. However, that…
Microsoft to start enforcing Azure multi-factor authentication in July
Starting in July, Microsoft will begin gradually enforcing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all users signing into Azure to administer resources. After first completing the rollout…
Financial orgs have 30 days to send data breach notifications
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted amendments to Regulation S-P that require certain financial institutions to disclose data breach incidents to impacted individuals…
US woman helped North Korean IT workers infiltrate 300 companies
The U.S. Justice Department charged five individuals today, a U.S. Citizen woman, a Ukrainian man, and three foreign nationals, for their involvement in cyber schemes…
US arrests suspects behind $73M ‘pig butchering’ laundering scheme
The U.S. Department of Justice charged two suspects for allegedly leading a crime ring that laundered at least $73 million from cryptocurrency investment scams, also…
WebTPA data breach impacts 2.4 million insurance policyholders
The WebTPA Employer Services (WebTPA) data breach disclosed earlier this month is impacting close to 2.5 million individuals, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services…