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Ethical hacker breached SpiceJet servers by using a simple brute-forcing technique SpiceJet, one of the fastest-growing Indian air carriers, was recently exposed to practicing poor data security measures. As first reported by Tech Crunch,[1] the cybersecurity incident possibly exposed details of more than 1.2 million passengers, which included information like names, […]

Poor security practices at Indian airline: data of 1.2M customers ...

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TVEyes crashed when ransomware attacked the core server and engineering workstations Undisclosed ransomware virus attacked TVEyes, radio, and television monitoring service.[1] The media monitoring platform was down and many public relations agencies, political campaign leaders, newsroom people, and journalists lost access to a crucial tool. The infection took place on […]

Ransomware targeted TV&radio monitoring service and caused an outage

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Avast’s extra money-making practices uncovered: subsidiary harvested user data and sold it to high-profile companies like Microsoft and Google In the joint effort of PCMag[1] and Motherboard, it was uncovered that anti-virus maker Avast’s subsidiary was collecting user web browsing information and selling it for profit. The report was compiled of […]

Avast drops its subsidiary Jumpshot following user data sale scandal

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Spam emails were received all over Japan, including Gifu, Osaka, and Tottori cities Malware developers now mimic representatives from healthcare companies by using the tragic news about the widespread coronavirus[1] infection to distribute Emotet banking trojan.[2] People who live in Japan’s cities such as Gifu, Osaka, and Tottori have recently been […]

Coronavirus-related malspam targets Japanese users with Emotet

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Government representative impressionists rely on non-traditional money transfer methods, such as gift cards The FBI has released a report on January 28th, which warns about scammers misusing their 202-324-300 phone number, fake badge number, a false name that is revealed during the call in order to trick people into making […]

Social Security Number scam: crooks are spoofing FBI’s phone number

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Security bug in Zoom could have led to corporate espionage due to hacker’s presence in private conference calls Zoom, one of the most commonly used conference platforms that popularized video conferencing software, patched a security flaw that allowed hackers to access various private conference calls unnoticed.[1] Any person could have […]

Zoom fixes flaw that made private conference calls open to ...

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A new malware dropper named CARROTBALL is using second-stage payloads to deliver six types of malware to U.S government agencies Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers released a new report[1] on a malicious campaign involving CARROTBAT downloaders with SYSCON payloads and new malware that the team has named CARROTBALL.[2] Malware […]

Phishing emails filled with never-before-seen malware targeting U.S government

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Ubisoft’s lawsuit attempts to punish providers of DDoS attacks launched at Rainbow Six: Siege servers in September A major video game maker and publisher Ubisoft had filed a lawsuit against multiple websites that were allegedly used to launch DDoS attacks against Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege multiplayer gaming servers in […]

Ubisoft sues website owners for selling DDoS services to R6S ...

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