Mar 13, 2017 | Data Breaches
US retail chain Home Depot has proposed a settlement where it agrees to pay a $25 million in relation to a point of sale data breach suffered in 2014. The incident reportedly saw the credit and debit cards of around 56 million people compromised, and may have resulted...
Mar 9, 2017 | CyberSecurity
SpammerGate is the tale of how River City Media (RCM), Alvin Slocombe, and Matt Ferris, accidentally exposed their spam empires operation playbook to the world after improperly configuring their Rsync backups. In so doing, the accidentally leaked their inner workings,...
Mar 9, 2017 | Malware and Exploits, Mobile Security
Instagram users have been the target of several new credential stealers, appearing on Google Play as tools for either managing or boosting the number of Instagram followers. Under the detection name Android/Spy.Inazigram, 13 malicious applications were discovered in...
Mar 6, 2017 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
It is being reported that the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Caucus was hit on Friday by a ransomware variant, and that the damage has them still non-functioning as late as Monday morning. The political organization made a report to local press after their website was...
Feb 24, 2017 | Malware and Exploits, Mobile Security
Android users were the target of new banking malware with screen locking capabilities, which was disguised as a weather forecast app on Google Play – in reality, it was a malicious weather app known as Trojan.Android/Spy.Banker.HU. The malware was a trojanized...
