Tag: security
Many universities could be at risk of easy phishing attacks
Barely any of the UK’s top universities are protected against being abused in phishing and spoofing attack, new research has claimed. A report from email security provider EasyDMARC reviewed the security policies of all of the main email domains used by the top 100 UK universities, finding less than a…
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Attack on Ledger crypto wallet leads to huge money thefts
Crypto giant Ledger spent December 14 warning users not to interact with web3 decentralized apps amid concerns over a supply chain attack. The attack on the ‘Ledger dApp Connect Kit’ library was found to be pushing a JavaScript wallet drainer, the company found. Ledger has since confirmed that it was…
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Stealthy new botnet targets VPN devices and routers while staying disguised
The US Government, together with several other countries, has issued a joint Cybersecurity Advisory notice warning of malicious work being carried out by a state-sponsored Chinese cyber actor known as Volt Typhoon. The Chinese group has been observed targeting US critical infrastructure sectors, and other countries are believed to be…
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This sneaky malware hijacks Google Forms to demand money in nasty phishing scheme
A new version of BazarCall, a phishing attack designed to take money from victims, has been observed, this time hijacking Google Forms to generate fake payment receipts in order to make malicious phishing attacks look more legitimate. The attack gets its name from the way it manipulates victims to engage…
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Major data breach leaks highly sensitive donor records of multiple charities
A database of nearly one million records, including information of a donor platform, has been discovered online without password protection. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler is credited with finding more than 948,000 records in a database measuring over 465GB that is believed to belong to DonorView, a software provider for nonprofits.…
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Thousands of WordPress websites could be put at risk by this serious security bug
A recently disclosed vulnerability affecting the ‘Backup Migration’ WordPress plugin has been assigned a severity score of 9.8 out of 10, but things may not be as bad as it seems because there’s a patch available now. The security bug, tracked as CVE-2023-6553, affects all versions up to (and including)…
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