Study Discovers “Highly Inflationary Impact” of Decisions by the European Data Protection Board. Last year, the cost of breaking the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe surged, and Big Tech businesses primarily paid the 2.9 billion euros in fines…
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Hackers steal info by spreading malware through Google search ads.
Hackers are making artificial websites for famous open-source and free apps to encourage malicious downloads through google search engine advertisements. At least one prominent cryptocurrency user has claimed that the campaign allowed hacker hackers to steal all of one’s digital…
Ransomware Leaks Data of University
The Vice Society ransomware gang actively claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) in November 2022. This attack forced UDE to actively reconstruct its IT infrastructure, a process that is still ongoing. The threat actors also…
Malware – 2FA Secured Sessions hack
In December, CircleCi experienced a security incident when hackers breached their systems. The breach occurred after an engineer at the company became infected with information-stealing malware. This malware allowed the hackers to access the company’s internal systems through the engineer’s…
Canadian Liquor Stores Hit by New Credit Card Hack
On Wednesday, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), a Canadian government enterprise, faced a cyber attack – a credit card hack. The country’s largest beverage alcohol retailer announced that unknown attackers had breached their website. Hackers injected malicious code…
Pre-installed malware on Android TV box
A Canadian systems security consultant, Daniel Milisic, recently bought an Android TV box from Amazon. It came with malware. It was in its firmware. Milisic created a script and instructions to help users. It nullifies the payload and stops communicating…
Crypto scam: Europe takedowns call center
This week, law enforcement from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany, and Serbia successfully took down multiple call centers. The criminal organization had control of these crypto scam call centers doing online fraud. The investigation, which began in June 2022, revealed that suspects…
Cyberattack Statistics – Check Point Report
Check Point Research recently revealed new statistics regarding cyberattack in 2022. According to their findings, the number of cyberattacks in the last year was 38% higher in 2021. This trend appears to be directly in link to the security gaps…
Twitter rejects data leak of 200M Users
Twitter data leak claims: is actively addressing the reports that a dataset of emails addresses millions of Twitter users. The email addresses are open for sale online by threat actors. The company has no evidence that the stolen data was…
ChatGPT: Build and Customize Malware
According to a recent cybersecurity, software retailer Check Point report, hackers actively use the AI-based chatbot. ChatGPT is the go-to platform to write functional malware and share their findings on the dark web. This report confirms earlier findings from the…