Tag: security
Another top spyware firm has been taken down — pcTattletale website defaced, then taken offline
Commercial spyware firm pcTattletale has been hacked, with data it stole from its victims published on the website, which was also defaced. Commercial spyware, also known as stalkerware, or spouseware, is a piece of software designed to spy on people, and in essence is very similar to malware. A person…
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Best Buy and Geek Squad were the most impersonated companies in tech scams last year
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has revealed its findings on the most impersonated companies during 2023 in a bid to help potential customers and victims to better prepare themselves against such attacks. The report found the most-spoofed company, with a total of 52,000 impersonation scam reports, was Best Buy and…
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Game over — hackers are using a spoofed version of Minesweeper to snare victims
Russian hackers are targeting financial institutions in Europe and the United States with a nostalgia-laden gaming lure. Two security agencies in Ukraine – CSIRT-NBU, and CERT-UA, hae warned of a new phishing campaign conducted by a threat actor they track as “UAC-0188”. This group is also known as “FRwL”, which…
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Data breach at medical giant Cencora exposes info from multiple drug companies
Almost a dozen pharmaceutical companies, including several major players, have lost sensitive customer data due to a supply chain cyberattack that trickled down from pharma giant Cencora. In late February 2024, drug wholesale company Cencora (previously known as AmerisourceBergen) filed a Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),…
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Good luck keeping the past private now —criminal records of millions of Americans leaked online in major database breach
Bad news for an Americans looking to keep their illegal pasts behind them, as researchers have flagged the leak of sensitive information on millions of convicted felons. Malwarebytes has published a blog post detailing how a group of cybercriminals leaked a database containing criminal records of millions of Americans, thought…
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Backdoor installer gives hackers full control over courtroom devices
An update for software that records court proceedings was contaminated with malware, granting persistent access to still unknown threat actors. This is according to a new report from cybersecurity researchers Rapid7, who discovered and reported the corruption to the software makers. The infestation has since been cleared, but the effects…
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