Akamai announced to have mitigated a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that hit a European bank. Akamai revealed that a bank in Europe was hit by a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked a record 809 million packets per

Personal data of an estimated 100,000 social media influencers has been accessed and partially leaked following a breach at social media marketing firm Preen.Me, Risk Based Security has discovered. The same breach has also led to more than 250,000 social

PlayStation has announced that it will pay hackers thousands of dollars to unearth vulnerabilities in its network and entertainment products. The gaming titan launched its PlayStation Bug Bounty program yesterday morning in hopes of rooting out flaws and providing players

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has announced that in just two months of its Suspicious Email Reporting Service being launched, it has received one million reports. According to a statement, the service, which was launched in April as part

Financial fraud attempts rose by 33% in April as the UK entered lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, new analysis from Experian and the National Hunter Fraud Prevention Service has revealed. Fraudsters targeted a myriad of financial products, including current

Medical devices, physical access operations and networking equipment are among the most risky when it comes to risks posed to businesses. Using analysis of metrics and data from the Forescout Device Cloud, the company identified points of risk inherent to

The Information and Records Management Society (IRMS) – the association for information professionals and students in information governance, records management, data protection and information security – has announced the appointment of Reynold Leming to the position of chair. Leming, who

Minnesota software company HelpSystems has acquired two data classification companies in response to “brisk” demands for its security software. The company said that the addition of Canadian company Titus and British firm Boldon James to its security portfolio establishes HelpSystems

Microsoft announces the public preview of Microsoft Defender ATP for Android, if you are an Android user who wants an extra layer of security Antivirus from trusted sources would be a perfect choice. Nowadays most of the business are moving

A new ransomware strain dubbed CryCryptor targeting Android users, particularly users in Canada posing as an official COVID-19 tracing app from Health Canada. The CryCryptor is a new ransomware based on the open-source ransomware CryDroid published on Jun 11, 2020.

The CryptoCore hacker group that is believed to be operating out of Eastern Europe has stolen around $200 million from online cryptocurrency exchanges. Experts from ClearSky states that a hacker group tracked as CryptoCore, which is believed to be operating

A cybersecurity breach at a Florida senior care provider went unnoticed for two years and impacted patient data. Cano Health discovered in April 2020 that some email accounts belonging to its employees had been compromised by threat actors. After investigating

U.S. business consulting firm Frost & Sullivan suffered a data breach, a threat actor is offering for sale its databases on a hacker forum. U.S. firm Frost & Sullivan suffered a data breach, data from an unsecured backup that were

Over two-thirds of malware detected in the first three months of the year was hidden in HTTPS encrypted tunnels in a bid to evade traditional AV, according to Watchguard. The security vendor’s latest Internet Security Report for Q1 2020 is

Symantec researchers observed REvil ransomware operators scanning one of their victim’s network for Point of Sale (PoS) servers. Researchers from Symantec’s Threat Intelligence team reported that the REvil ransomware operators have been observed while scanning one of their victim’s network for Point of Sale

Twitter has contacted its business clients to warn them of a potential breach of their data. It said that email addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of card numbers may have been accessed by others, thanks to a