It has come to light that Police in Wales have issued a warning to residents about a new phone scam, in which fraudsters are impersonating supermarket giant Tesco. Victims have reported receiving an automated call telling them that an order with Tesco has been placed and that £350 will be debited from their account. The automated message goes on to say “if this is not the right amount, please press 1 to go through to our fraud team.
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News broke today that previously undocumented account-stealing malware distributed via fake software crack sites targets the users of major service providers, including Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple. The malware, dubbed CopperStealer by Proofpoint researchers, is an actively developed password and cookie stealer with a downloader feature that enables its operators to deliver additional malicious payloads to infected devices.
DevOps is a set of tools and best practices utilized by organizations to deliver software applications projects faster than traditional software development methodologies. This allows organizations to enhance customer service and increase their competitive advantages in the market. In a nutshell, DevOps is about removing the borders between different teams involved in a software development project, namely the development and operation team, and about making them work together across the entire development lifecycle beginning with development and ending with deployment. This collaboration avoids wasting time waiting for the development team to finish to start the testing and deployment phases. This…
Facebook has announced that it has extended FIDO support to mobile devices. This means that you can now set up two-factor authentication and log into the company’s iOS and Android apps using a security key.
Cybereason published Cybereason Exposes Campaign Targeting US Taxpayers with NetWire and Remcos Malware, an ongoing phishing campaign attempting to take over computers using malware to steal sensitive personal and financial information.
ZDNet reported that BEC scams have caused $1.8m in losses in 2020 but they’ve also found that losses caused by romance scams are up from $475m in 2019 to $600m in 2020.
“Desperate” job seekers are advertising their willingness to work for cyber criminals on the darknet and hacking forums, according to a new report from Check Point Research. This is a growing trend that researchers haven’t observed before, as the norm is for criminals to seek new recruits rather than the other way around. The research tracked several known hacking forums and saw dozens of posts from individuals with no prior cybercrime experience begging for work that would earn them cash quickly. The researchers said they believed this is the result of the impact of COVID-19 on the global jobs market.
The Microsoft has just confirmed that the outage which took down Teams, Exchange Online, and other 365 services was caused by a key rotation issue. More details on Microsoft’s status page here. Expert below warns that outages of this nature are likely to become more common as digital transformation accelerates as the importance of key rotation is often overlooked.
It has been reported that the UK government has announced it is prepared to launch nuclear weapons if the country was faced with an exceptionally destructive attack using cyber or other “emerging technologies”. As per UK existing policy, Trident missiles could only be launched against another nuclear power, or potentially in response to extreme chemical or biological threats. Cybersecurity experts reacted below.
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has released its annual report. The 2020 Internet Crime Report includes information from 791,790 complaints of suspected internet crime—an increase of more than 300,000 complaints from 2019—and reported losses exceeding $4.2 billion. State-specific statistics have also been released and can be found within the 2020 Internet Crime Report and in the accompanying 2020 State Reports.