A college drop-out has admitted using malware and a fake tech support company to con 40,000 victims out of millions of dollars. Former engineering student Amit Chauhan set up a bogus technical support call-center company called Tech Support in January

Three major US companies have joined forces to develop a Disaggregated Scalable Firewall (DSFW) framework. The collaboration between AT&T, Palo Alto Networks, and Broadcom was announced earlier today as an expansion to the Distributed Disaggregated Chassis (DDC) that was recently

A major data breach has occurred at Trident Crypto Fund, resulting in the publication of over a quarter of a million customer usernames and passwords online. According to a report published on March 5, 2020, by Russian media outlet Izvestia,

Crooks continue to exploit the attention on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, TrickBot operators target Italian users. A new spam campaign is targeting users in Italy by exploiting the interest on Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the attempt of delivering the TrickBot information-stealing malware.

Mobile stalkerware detections are rising faster in the UK than globally, according to new stats revealed by Kaspersky ahead of International Women’s Day (IWD). The security firm claimed the number of users targeted by these malicious surveillance apps jumped 91%

Almost one million Virgin Media customers may have had their personal details exposed to hackers after a database was left unsecured online. The British ISP, owned by US cable group, Liberty Global, informed customers by email this week that the

T-Mobile customers in the US are on alert for phishing attacks once again after the company warned that some account information has been compromised. In a note published on Wednesday, the carrier claimed that it recently “identified and quickly shut

British Telephone company Virgin Media marketing database reportedly hacked by unknown cybercriminals and accessed the customers’ sensitive information. Virgin Media is a British company that provides telephone, television and internet services with 14.6 million broadband customers in the United Kingdom

A critical Buffer overflow vulnerability discovered in the pppD ( Point to Point Protocol Daemon) Let remote attackers exploit the Linux systems remotely and gain the root-level privileges. pppD ( Point to Point Protocol Daemon) often used to manage the

Crooks are using a new phishing technique to trick victims into accepting the installation of a security certificate update and deliver malware. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab discovered spotted a new attack technique used by crooks to distribute malware by

The United States has pledged $8m to support a Ukrainian cybersecurity project. The generous commitment was announced by the State Department on Tuesday as part of a “cyber-dialogue” that took place between the two countries in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv. A

New problems for the wireless carrier T-Mobile that disclosed a data breach that exposed some of the customers’ personal information. The wireless carrier T-Mobile was victims of a sophisticated cyber attack that targeted its email vendor. A data breach notification published

Security researchers demonstrated that hundreds of sub-domains belonging to Microsoft could potentially be hijacked and abused to deliver malware and for phishing attacks. Researchers have devised another way to carry out an attack, for example, inviting victims to download a

An American university has launched an ingenious new toolkit that can help detectives catch cyber-criminals. The Toolkit for Selective Analysis and Reconstruction of Files (FileTSAR), built by cybersecurity experts at Purdue University, is an all-in-one tool that tracks and reconstructs

The UK’s data protection watchdog has issued the maximum possible fine to Cathay Pacific in response to a major breach at the Asian airline which resulted in the compromise of millions of customers’ data. The GBP500,000 penalty from the Information

UK businesses need to further strengthen their defenses against cyber-attacks, according to new research which has revealed that cybersecurity performance in the UK has declined in the last year compared to other EU countries. The research from BitSight found that