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Companies are offering businesses free cybersecurity support as coronavirus scams proliferate and over-stretched healthcare providers become more vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Irish cybersecurity awareness training company Cyber Risk Aware announced yesterday that it would be providing free COVID-19 phishing tests for

The Magecart Group has revived its activity, with a skimmer placed on the website of blender manufacturer NutriBullet. According to RiskIQ, the group is identified as Magecart Group 8, and RiskIQ was able to catch the attack as it happened.

Trend Micro has found and fixed several critical vulnerabilities in its products, two of which it warned are being exploited in the wild. The security giant released patches for Apex One and OfficeScan XG on Windows, urging customers to upgrade

Financial institutions could have prevented hundreds of millions of pounds worth of fraud over the past three years by implementing a simple payee-checking service online, a consumer rights group has claimed. Which? estimates that GBP1.1 billion has been lost to

Over half a million highly sensitive legal and financial documents have been leaked online by a US loans company after another cloud configuration error. Security researchers at vpnMentor led by Noam Rotem found the database in an unsecured Amazon Web

The online guitar tutoring website TrueFire was compromised by hackers in a classic Magecart style attack that exposed customers’ payment card data. The popular online guitar tutoring website TrueFire has suffered a ‘Magecart‘ style security breach that might have exposed

Cybercriminals using the Coronavirus outbreak to trick users into installing malicious corona virus-related apps. In the current panic, situation users are most vulnerable to apps like Coronavirus Trackers, symptoms identification, maps, etc. Security researchers from Domaintools observed a malicious Coronavirus

Operators behind a new piece of ransomware dubbed Nefilim have started threatening victims to release stolen data like other cybercrime gangs. A new ransomware dubbed Nefilim appeared in the threat landscape at the end of February, it borrows its code

Most of the ransomware attacks targeting the enterprises occur outside working hours, during the nighttime or during the weekend. Security experts from FireEye published an interesting report on the Ransomware deployment trends, it revealed that most of the attacks (76%)

A Florida company that offers guitar lessons online to millions of students around the world has suffered a data breach. Unauthorized access of TrueFire’s computer system went on for six months before the breach was detected on January 10, 2020.

Security experts from vpnMentor have discovered two corporate finance companies that leak half a million legal and financial documents online vpnMentor experts uncovered a database exposed online on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that is leaking a huge amount of sensitive legal and

Check Point researchers detailed the activity of a prolific cyber-criminal known as ‘Dton’ that earned at least $100,000 US from his operations. Over the past few months, experts at Check Point have monitored the activity of a prolific cyber-criminal known

The Student Loans Company (SLC) was hit by over five million email attacks last year, but appears to have weathered the cyber-storm from hackers. A Freedom of Information (FOI) request issued by law firm Griffin Law revealed the scale and

Use of virtual private networks (VPNS) has rocketed in some of the countries hardest hit by the Covid-19 virus, according to new data from a company that supplies these services. Atlas VPN analyzed data from its 50,000 weekly users, measuring

More than a quarter of security alerts fielded within organizations are false positives, according to new research from the Neustar International Security Council (NISC). The NISC surveyed senior security professionals across five European markets and the US, highlighting the risks

Coronavirus-themed attacks continue to increase, experts observed new Coronavirus ransomware that acts as a cover for Kpot Infostealer. Last week, security experts from MalwareHunterTeam detected new ransomware dubbed CoronaVirus has been distributed through a malicious web site that was advertising a legitimate