Accounts pushed hundreds of tweets advertising a sketchy mask website on Tuesday, according to Vice. Hackers have taken over a wave of Twitter accounts to aggressively advertise a website that claims to be selling face masks and toilet paper during the coronavirus pandemic. The news highlights the sorts of unusual steps those trying to make a profit during the pandemic are taking. Over recent days, the number of tweets linking to the website has risen into the hundreds.
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DCMS has released its annual Cyber Security Breaches Survey, which found that – while threats have become more frequent – ransomware has decreased.
It has been reported that Kimchuk, a medical and military electronics maker, has been hit by data-stealing ransomware. The manufacturer, which builds electronics for medical equipment, telecoms systems and energy grids, also makes nuclear modules for the Navy, work that often requires security clearance. Its systems were infected and knocked offline earlier this month by DoppelPaymer, a newer strain of ransomware that exfiltrates data out of an infected network before encrypting user files. If a victim doesn’t pay the ransom to decrypt their files, the DoppelPaymer group will begin publishing the contents of their victim’s network. When the company did not pay, the hackers began…
Latest research from Neustar reveals across-the-board growth in attacks of all sizes Neustar, Inc., a global information services and technology company and leader in identity resolution, announced that its Security Operations Center (SOC) saw a 168% increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in Q4 2019, compared with Q4 2018, and a 180% increase overall in 2019 vs. 2018. According to Neustar’s latest cyber threats and trends report, released today, the company saw DDoS attacks across all size categories increase in 2019, with attacks sized 5 Gbps and below seeing the largest growth. These small-scale attacks made up more than three…
It has been reported that hackers have breached the website of Tupperware, a US company known for its plastic food container products, and placed malicious code on its website to collect payment card details from site buyers. The malicious code has been running on the Tupperware homepage for at least five days, according to security researchers. Every time a user initiates a payment, the malicious code creates an iframe that floats over the page and shows a cloned payment form that mimics Tupperware’s original VISA CyberSource payment form.
An advisory from Microsoft has been issued to address remote code execution vulnerabilities in the Adobe Type Manager Library affecting all supported versions of Windows and Windows Server operating systems. An attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
As reported by the Independent, Facebook could stop people from forwarding messages to too many people in an attempt to stop the spread of misinformation about coronavirus. The company is testing a new feature for Messenger that only allows messages to be sent on to a maximum of five people, making it harder to spread hoaxes or rumours without thinking about them. The feature is not yet available but Facebook confirmed it is being tested inside the company.
It’s being reported that a new cyberattack is hijacking router’s DNS settings so that web browsers display alerts for a fake COVID-19 information app from the World Health Organization that is the Vidar information-stealing malware. For the past five days, people have been reporting their web browser would open on its own and display a message prompting them to download a ‘COVID-19 Inform App’ that was allegedly from the World Health Organization (WHO). After further research, it was determined that these alerts were being caused by an attack that changed the DNS servers configured on their home D-Link or Linksys routers to use DNS servers operated…
The Covid-19 salvage plan includes the provision of ImmuniWeb solutions totaling $500,000 for eligible entities and an extended version of free Community Edition for everyone. ImmuniWeb has decided to support businesses and public sector organisations most in need amid the propagation of coronavirus crisis. Its core business is application security and compliance, hence ImmuniWeb is perfectly poised to aid the digital newcomers to safeguard their newly launched web and mobile applications, cloud and SaaS systems. ImmuniWeb will provide a bundle of our solutions for $500,000 value for organizations and companies now migrating their workflow into the digital space because of…
The government has just released its annual cybersecurity breaches survey – see here. Unsurprisingly, phishing remains the biggest threat, with 86% of breached companies listing it as their most common cause of a breach, up from 72% in 2017.