Researchers have discovered another unsecured Elasticsearch database, this time exposing data on thousands of travelers including US military and government employees. The research team at vpnMentor discovered the online database hosted on AWS infrastructure, on September 13. It belonged to

One of the world’s biggest producers of automation tools is still crippled over a week after it was hit by a ransomware attack. German giant Pilz was forced to notify the prosecutor’s office and Federal Office for Security in Information

Hackers have breached the systems used by NordVPN and TorGuard VPN companies and leaked the private keys used to secure their web servers and VPN configuration files. The information belonging to the NordVPN company that was leaked online were stolen

Winnti hacker group uses a new malware dubbed skip-2.0 to attack Microsoft SQL Servers and to gain persistence access. Winnti group believed to be operating from China and the group active at least from 2012 and responsible for high-profile supply-chain

Leading Anti-Virus software maker Avast hacked by unknown cyber-espionage groups using compromised credentials and gained the internal network access over their own VPN in earlier March 2019. Avast is one of the well-known cybersecurity company that making various internet security

Avast has fended off a sophisticated cyber-espionage attack with the help of Czech intelligence. The global manufacturer of antivirus products announced today that its network had been breached, in what is thought to be an attempt to gain information regarding

New research into phishing attacks has shown that the most clicked on email subject lines are those that relate to online security concerns. A report released today by security awareness training company KnowBe4 revealed that emails with titles that trick

Researchers have discovered a Trojanized version of the popular Tor Browser, which has already stolen tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of digital currency from users. Targeted at Russian users, the malicious variant is distributed via spam messages on local

An advertising campaign warning that DoS attacks are illegal has proved successful in reducing cybercrime. In a new study, researchers from the University of Cambridge and the University of Strathclyde looked at four different cybercrime prevention methods employed by law

Speaking four months after the IISP was renamed as the Charted Institute of Information Security (CIIS), CEO Amanda Finch said the re-branding was “great for us, as it puts on the map” after three and a half years of application.

Cyberattacks rapidly growing every day, it emerges as one of the biggest challenges for businesses. Network intruders and ransomware developer groups develop an alliance with each other to maximize the revenue with the ransomware market. They partnership together to attack

A newly discovered critical Wi-Fi vulnerability in Linux lets attackers compromise the system with the help of nearby Wi-Fi devices and crush the vulnerable machine. The vulnerability resides in the “rtlwifi” driver that mainly supports the Realtek Wi-Fi chips model

Hackers have breached BriansClub (BriansClub[.]at), one of the biggest black market sites, that specializes in the sale of stolen credit card data. According to the security experts Brian Krebs, who first reported the data breach, the hackers stole data of

Security experts at Proofpoint observed the notorious TA505 cybercrime group that has been using a new RAT dubbed SDBbot in recent attacks. The TA505 group, that is known to have operated both the Dridex and Locky malware families, continues to

STOP (Djvu) ransomware has 160 variants that infected more hundreds of thousands of victims worldwide. Experts estimated a total number of 460,000 victims, that makes this threat the most active and widespread ransomware today. According to data included in Emsisoft