Category: security
Website builder Ucraft leaks data of hundreds of thousands of users
Hundreds of thousands of users of a popular website builder firm may have had their personal information leaked online due to shoddy security practices, a new report has revealed. Researchers from Cybernews found that a publicly accessible Google Cloud Storage Bucket belonging to website building and design tools firm Ucraft…
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Ransomware and BEC are seeing a huge rise — is your business ready?
Ransomware attacks and Business Email Compromise (BEC) campaigns are on the rise once again, new research has said. The annual Arctic Wolf Labs Threat Report claims the median ransom demand rose by a fifth (20%) year-on-year and has now hit $600,000. While ransomware operators target organizations of all shapes and…
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User identities becoming an increasingly popular target for scammers
Instead of hacking into company networks and corporate accounts, threat actors are increasingly choosing to exploit user identities instead, new research has claimed. Not only is it easier to pull off, such identity theft tactics are also harder for victims to detect, meaning the damage a hacker can do this…
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This popular WordPress site builder has a serious security issue — and hackers are already taking advantage
A popular WordPress theme with tens of thousands of users carries a high severity vulnerability that allows threat actors to run malicious PHP code. The patch for the flaw has already been made available, and hackers have started targeting vulnerable sites to disable security plugins. A security researcher alias “snicco”…
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This nasty new Android malware can easily bypass Google Play security — and it’s already been downloaded thousands of times
Hackers managed to sneak malware droppers into the Google Play Store, infecting more than 100,000 people with banking trojans, security researchers have warned. Cybersecurity experts from Threat Fabric recently warned of five separate campaigns, all targeting users in Europe – namely the UK, Germany, Spain, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the Czech…
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University of Cambridge apparently suffering DDoS attack – and it isn’t the only one affected
The University of Cambridge is currently reported to be grappling with a widespread distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that is also causing disruptions across various other higher education institutions in the UK. Students from multiple colleges have been alerted to the development, which has been impacting critical education IT…
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