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2020-08-04 05:53
While it is generally the incidents in the US and Europe that tend to get the maximum exposure, cyber-attacks are occurring with increasing frequency in all parts of the world. From the use… Read More
2020-07-28 04:17
In the early days of the internet, the idea of giving out your credit card details online would’ve seemed like a one-way ticket to having your identity stolen. Imagine trusting a websi… Read More
2020-07-28 04:16
All modern websites have security concerns on some level, but few websites and services take this as seriously as online casinos. Both in protecting themselves and their customers, there is… Read More
2020-07-21 13:46
We all wonder how to decode your files, which is snarled by ransomware attacks. In this article, we tell you how to decrypt your information encrypted by ransomware attack.
Ransomware is a p… Read More
2020-06-25 04:23
Artificial Intelligence is pretty much the future of the world, and it can’t be ignored. Soon everything will be smart, integrated, and controlled by algorithms. The cybersecurity indu… Read More
2020-04-20 07:23
What can be terrifying than finding out that you have lost your control over your Joomla site? Isn’t it true? Yes, there are nearly 800,000 people who are using this forum, and there i… Read More
2020-04-17 11:44
Are you among the Apple fanboys? If yes, then you must know about the magical piece of glass that came out this year on March 24. Yes, it’s the iPad Pro 2020 that has recently launched… Read More
2020-03-19 16:19
Do you also feel your device is safe because of the antivirus that has more than 435 million monthly active users? Yes, we are talking about the Avast antivirus! It shares the most significa… Read More
2020-03-12 14:23
Are you aware of the stats that seventy-two percent of the internet users feel that online surveys interfere with their experience while working on net? Yes, it is the truth, and if you are… Read More
2020-03-09 12:47
Are you aware of Google’s feature called Factory Reset Protection? Well, this specific feature prevents others from attempting to factory reset your device without your permission. Thi… Read More
2020-02-06 05:09
A bug in the Google Takeout download service has led to the unintentional sharing of some videos with others by some users.
This week, when Google started sending notifications to affected u… Read More
2020-01-17 11:23
Facebook also introduced a confidence-building tool that will further strengthen user accounts on the website. The organization also announced a new warning feature called’ Login Notif… Read More
2020-01-14 17:26
The replacement for GandCrab Sodinokibi has been in the news for a long time. The evil ransomware (or REvil) has reached numerous high profile targets. And now, the latest attack on Sodiniko… Read More
2020-01-13 12:47
Google pulled about 1,700 separate apps that were part of a family of potentially unwanted services from its Google Play application store.
This family of potentially harmful applicati… Read More
2020-01-10 07:07
Mozilla released Wednesday updates for its Firefox browser address a zero-day vulnerability exploited in target attacks.
This bug was described by Mozilla as a “IonMonkey style uncerta… Read More
2020-01-08 15:31
Mimecast, announced on Monday the acquisition of threat protection solutions provider Segasec, an email and data security company.
According to Mimecast, the purchase is expected to help bet… Read More
2020-01-07 07:58
Insight Partners has agreed to acquire IoT security firm Armis in a cash deal valuing the company at $1.1 billion.
Armis provides an agentless application of business quality designed to hel… Read More
2019-12-17 17:17
The German Data Protection Regulator, the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Information Freedom (BfDI), has imposed a GDPR fine of € 9.55 million ($10.64) on the German telec… Read More
2019-11-22 08:20
It is assumed that the downloader uses methods not seen in the wild before.
A malware downloader was found using new “Port Monitor” methods not detected in active campaigns befor… Read More
2019-11-21 15:35
A 20-yr-old Cypriot in the United States who was wanted to commit hacking offenses is likely to be the first person in the world to be extradited, his attorney said on Monday.
The FBI accuse… Read More
2019-11-19 16:26
LINE Corporation, Japan-based communication, today announced the launch of a public bug bounty program on the HackerOne site for pentest and HackerOne bug bounty.
Started in 2011, LINE becam… Read More
2019-11-18 04:15
This week’s OpenText corporation (EIM) announced a definitive agreement to acquire data protection and cyber security provider Carbonite, Inc. Canadian-based OpenText aims at helping c… Read More
2019-11-12 11:06
Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019 has come to a close and hunters win a total of $120,000 for demonstration exploits on Samsung Galaxy S10 and Xiaomi Mi9 phones and AC1750 routers on the second day of the… Read More
2019-11-11 07:54
An arbitrary code implementation can result in a vulnerability discovered in the multi-format archive and compression system library library.
The compression library is best known for its te… Read More
2019-11-07 16:27
The US Department of Justice reports that two former Twitter staff spied on Saudi Arabia to obtain criticism information against the Saudi regime.
On Wednesday two former Twitter workers, to… Read More
2019-11-06 13:44
Kamerka allows you to see what a hacker is looking at. It draws up maps with SCADA devices, webcams and printers which have been displayed in any particular country on the Internet.
A Polish… Read More
2019-11-05 15:05
Deception in identity attacks continues to increase, but the type of attack seems to change. In Q3 2019, phishing campaigns by brands fell 6% compared to the previous quarter. Nevertheless… Read More
2019-11-04 11:59
Two computer hackers pleaded guilty to developing an extort scheme that tangled Uber in a year long cover-up of a data breach that stolen sensitive information from approximately 57 million… Read More
2019-10-31 16:59
Austria’s Postal Service has been fined EUR 18 million (20 million dollars) for working out information on the political allegiances of its customers, said the Ministry of Justice on T… Read More
2019-10-31 05:10
India’s largest nuclear plant was reportedly hit by a malware package that experts linked to North Korean hackers recently, but officials said control systems had not been jeopardized… Read More
2019-10-30 13:14
Samples of NukeSped malware were analyzed by Fortinet security researchers, who did a deep-dive and found that it shares multiple similarities with other malware families being extensively u… Read More
2019-10-29 04:33
Google has fixed three more significant bugs in Chrome that can be exploited to breach the sandbox of the web browser and given a total of $50.000 to the researcher.
A Chrome 77 update relea… Read More
2019-10-28 17:05
A team of German security researchers has developed a new class of Web cache toxic attacks that could make victim services unattainable.
In addition to providing security against denial-of-s… Read More
2019-10-25 09:04
The manufacturer of automation tools, Pilz, suffered a cyber attack that took down almost all its infrastructure.
Pilz is a leading provider of automation technology in Ostfildern, Germany… Read More
2019-10-24 06:03
A recently discovered workaround for Chinese-linked Winnti hackers targeting Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) is extremely stealthy, ESET security scientists say.
The Group has been involved since at l… Read More
2019-10-23 16:14
Gustuff’s recent Android banking campaigns have included an updated malware version, reports Cisco Talos security researchers.
Earlier this year, shortly after the software was describ… Read More
2019-10-23 06:16
The Internet infrastructure won’t be complete without content delivery networks (CDNs). However, not many users fully understand what they are and what happens behind the scenes. Often… Read More
2019-10-22 16:09
Westchester, Ingredion Incorporated, an Illinois-based ingredient corporation, announced this week that criminal activity has recently been found on certain data center servers.
Just a few s… Read More
2019-08-28 12:39
After Motherboard approached the company to comment, Fiverr removed a number of listings.
A free-lance Fiverr site allows a company to hire a short-term application developer, logo designer… Read More
2019-08-27 13:10
You listen to the shared security podcast and discover the confidence you place in people, applications and technology… with your host, Tom Eston. Facebook announces new off-Facebook… Read More
2019-08-23 15:24
Small organizations still face a long list of threats to security. These threats and vulnerabilities should take precedence.
Increasingly, cyber criminals are targeting smaller organisations… Read More
2019-08-22 12:15
Banks have begun to warn customers of a new PayID data breach, which was reported late Friday to the NPP Australia new payment platform supervision.
NPP Australia said that an unrevealed num… Read More
2019-08-21 14:03
The indoor security device was vulnerable to user privacy bugs. The indoor camera of Google Nest Cam IQ contained a wealth of security vulnerabilities that could be used to hide or disr… Read More
2019-08-20 12:49
As a professional services consultant, I am pleased to meet customers around the world and talk to a wide range of IT security experts who are at the forefront of malware defence.
One of my… Read More
2019-08-16 13:19
As the practical application of cloud computing becomes cheaper, there are still many people who still have vague anxieties about security. Examine the security of the public cloud itself an… Read More
2019-08-15 19:24
Work efficiency cannot be improved without an internal/external network environment these days; successful organizations are all data-driven entities. However, while the Internet comes with… Read More
2019-08-14 13:03
As reported by the Associated Press, some United Nations agents are investigating North Korea for allegedly launching 35 coordinated state-sponsored cyber attacks activities against 17 count… Read More
2019-08-13 13:28
The term “artificial intelligence” is now a keyword that has attracted a great deal of attention in the technological development of various fields. Image recognition, speech ana… Read More
2019-08-12 13:58
Who can ever forget of Avaya phones and its near-monopoly of the corporate communication equipment market for Fortune 100 companies pre-Skype? As software VOIP solutions matured, companies a… Read More
2019-08-11 13:47
Password Spray attack is not a new form of a cyber attack. But here, this may be the first article when we will discuss it in more detail. Password spray is a brute-forcing technique of usin… Read More
2019-08-10 17:25
Running a website is not easy from the standpoint of security and privacy. All web publishers are making a delicate balance between cost and security technologies, the more cyber defense rea… Read More
2019-08-09 12:38
Compared to the classical phishing and social engineering attacks, the term watering hole attack is seldom given any attention by cybersecurity websites. It is a coverage something we need t… Read More
2019-08-08 13:52
State Farm, a behemoth in the banking and insurance business in the United States became a victim of massive credential stuffing attack. It is a form of cyber attack where usernames and pass… Read More
2019-08-07 12:38
Mobile-only bank, Monzo is the latest victim of a data breach, with the UK-based bank requesting their customers to change their PIN (Personal Identification Number). Upon initial inspection… Read More
2019-08-06 14:44
The Microsoft Security Research and Defense (MSRD) team has issued a cybersecurity warning about the growing concerns of IoT (Internet-of-Things) security, especially botnet infections in th… Read More
2019-08-05 14:24
IBM’s X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (also known as IRIS) has issued a report, detailing the growth of destructive malware that infected the corporate space. The c… Read More
2019-08-04 15:22
Alabama’s Houston County Schools are in a dilemma, as the start of its school year had to be delayed in order to buy more time in recovering from a malware attack. The school’s o… Read More
2019-08-03 17:06
In our past article, we have discussed the flaws affecting an obscure embedded OS, which happens to be one of the most successful operating systems in history, while at the same time remaine… Read More
2019-08-02 14:03
Security researchers from Gemini Advisory, a cyber threat intelligence firm, disclosed a huge sale campaign for credit/debit cards in hacker forums belonging to South Korean cardholders. The… Read More
2019-08-01 14:07
Maybe some of you have forgotten when then Chief Software Architect of Microsoft, Bill Gates uttered one of the silliest claims to promote Microsoft in 2004. In the prestigious 2004 World Ec… Read More
2019-07-31 13:58
Microsoft has found a new foe in its Windows-Office empire, as the Netherland’s Ministry of Justice and Security issued a stern warning Dutch public sector users of Office mobile, Offi… Read More
2019-07-30 14:30
We cannot make someone reads our article to become a CCNA-level network administrator anytime soon. Networking is hard, with various protocols, wiring standards and other critical parts that… Read More
2019-07-29 14:47
“Security patch” is a term that refers to programs and data that fix known vulnerability in the software. Vulnerabilities are weaknesses, software bugs which can be “weapon… Read More
2019-07-28 16:57
Internet-of-Things is one of our most favorite, if not the most favorite topic to discuss here. We wrote countless articles since 2017, about the inherent increase of acceptance of IoT devic… Read More
2019-07-27 14:24
Brazillian bank named Banco Pan is at the center of the biggest controversy of its history when it was involved with the release of 250GB worth of their customers’ data to the public… Read More
2019-07-26 13:23
CERT-Bund has issued a critical advisory regarding an alleged persistent vulnerability in all versions of VLC Player from version 3.0.7.1 and older. VLC Player is a very popular cross platfo… Read More
2019-07-25 14:12
Fake invoices are easier to detect if these piggyback emails that came from people you don’t know. We are well aware of the messages from complete strangers may range from complete irr… Read More
2019-07-24 14:03
It is becoming fairly common that small city or municipalities are the most profitable victims of cyber threats and cyber attacks using their ransomware campaigns. Here, we have featured at… Read More
2019-07-23 13:41
Cyber attacks are changing with the times. Initially, personal cyber-attacks were nothing but digital vandalism, seeking for 15-minutes of fame were mainstream, but the people… Read More
2019-07-22 13:09
5G is being developed so that different requirements such as “high-speed, large-capacity data communication”, “connection of many terminals”, and “ultra-low lat… Read More
2019-07-21 12:17
The workflow collaboration software Slack is in the hot seat once again for its 2015 data breach, as it only took them till July 18, 2019 (4 years) to announce that they will forcefully impl… Read More
2019-07-20 14:48
Online shopping at the privacy of one’s home or mobile device is very convenient because you can shop at any time, anywhere, without physically going to a brick and mortar store. In ad… Read More
2019-07-19 12:45
We really are living in the future, with the growth and fast development of face recognition technology. It all started with the hardware, Android made face unlock a public feature starting… Read More
2019-07-18 12:55
Bulgaria, an Eastern European country of 7 million people is a recent victim of a large-scale data breach, as its state tax agency’s tax information storage servers were hacked last Ju… Read More
2019-07-17 10:45
From time-to-time we feature cryptocurrency stories here in Thethreatreport. Hence, it is really necessary for us to explain what it is, in an easier to understand language for the newbies… Read More
2019-07-16 12:42
Records show that K12.com, a web-based educational firm has suffered a massive 7-million student records breach due to an insecure version of MongoDB database server. Bob Dianchenko a securi… Read More
2019-07-15 13:40
The 2019 Access Management Index report revealed by Thales has provided a quick glimpse of how corporations’ top IT decision makers are coping with cloud-computing push by the industry… Read More
2019-07-11 13:35
Android 6.0 Marshmallow (and later) is hailed for giving its default user the capability to grant/deny granularly the permissions asked by apps, something that only rooted/custom roms users… Read More
2019-07-10 12:17
Firms should always consider the worst-case scenario in their internal IT environment. The need to put in place procedures in the event of a disaster, and periodically update these procedure… Read More
2019-07-09 13:18
Since webcams came into existence the product came with a huge “if”. The possibility of some other people accesses the webcam online when they least expect it. Webcams exploded i… Read More
2019-07-08 15:04
The Ruby library is ubiquitous, it is everywhere, as proven by the number of loyal developers it attracted to the platform for decades. With the availability of its library for various opera… Read More
2019-07-07 14:30
Are you planning or already booked for a China-trip anytime soon? Then this is the news you cannot ignore, China’s border immigration agents at Xinjiang region are legally compelled to… Read More
2019-07-07 11:30
Here, we often interchange the word “virus” with the word “malware”. It is for the purpose of simplicity, as we focus our article to the actual story rather than fall… Read More
2019-07-06 15:00
Open-source apps have long been hailed for being more secure than proprietary software, for the reason that the availability of the source code means the higher chances that a bug can be see… Read More
2019-07-06 12:00
Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS) is a critical cybersecurity concern that causes a service to stop by sending numerous processing requests from multiple computers to a target serv… Read More
2019-07-05 14:17
The Marriott Hotel chain data breach is one of our most covered Cybersecurity stories about Beijing denying the accusation from western powers that it was behind the data breach. We revisit… Read More
2019-07-04 14:06
For 19-years and still counting, Youtube has become a very important platform for online video content. Not only for leisure and pleasure, like those cat videos that we all love to watch, bu… Read More
2019-07-03 15:19
Cyber attacks come in various presentation and packages, the damage range from “all systems feel normal” to “the sky is falling” scenarios. But one thing is for sure… Read More
2019-07-02 13:30
The Healthcare sector’s continued problem with cybersecurity vulnerabilities will continue for many years to come. As long as their equipment follows the principle of “use it unt… Read More
2019-07-01 14:07
The introduction of telework that allows people to work from outside the office using PCs and smartphones is also in progress. If telecommuting spreads, employees will be able to spend time… Read More
2019-06-30 12:30
The system admins’ favorite antivirus program Malwarebytes has released the State of Malware Report covering the first quarter of 2019, highlighting the state of malware globally. The… Read More
2019-06-30 08:04
This article is written for the purpose of empowering our readers with much deeper knowledge of ransomware, with the goal of lessening the chance that your Windows computer will be the next… Read More
2019-06-29 13:00
Facebook seems like receiving the short end of the stick once more, as a U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that the trial of the case against Facebook’s “View As” fia… Read More
2019-06-29 08:03
You may have heard the word “botnet“ several times recently here in Hackercombat.com. Any device in the Internet may function as a zombie, a member of a botnet that follows the c… Read More
2019-06-28 12:54
Mitigating the effects of IT issues can be a great article for someone who underwent the heartbreak of losing data, whether due to an internal incident or an external threat. However, provid… Read More
2019-06-27 14:08
It took 3-years of cat and mouse play, Kaspersky was successful with its background checks against the nature of an Android malware named ViceLeaker. Unlike a general malware type that infec… Read More
2019-06-26 14:00
Last November 24, 2018, while they were busy with their tRAT malware. The team once again surfaces with a new campaign, this time with a new remote access trojan known to Microsoft as Flawed… Read More
2019-06-25 12:28
Note: This is a follow-up article of our story regarding Google Play Store that was published earlier. The Data61 team from the University of Sydney and Commonwealth Scientific and Industria… Read More
2019-06-24 14:42
In the process of developing and actually using particular software, security vulnerabilities leading to cyber attacks are commonplace. It is a well-known fact that there are a series of cyb… Read More
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