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Wendy’s: Breach Affected 5% of Restaurants
Wendy's restaurants has released information about the investigation a breach in at least 300 of their 5,500 restaurants. Wendy’s said today that an investigation into a credit card breach at the nationwide fast-food chain uncovered malicious software on point-of-sale...
FBI warns of Android Malware SlemBunk and Marcher
Today we received notification from the FBI of two families of malware for Android devices which are actively seeking US Banking Credentials. The FBI notice contains information which is marked as TLP: AMBER - which means we cannot share the exact contents with you....
Google employee data breached in vendor email mistake
In the Sophos Blog - Naked Security - it has been reported that Google employee data was breached by being inadvertently emailed to the wrong client by a benefits company. ...
FBI: No, you shouldn’t pay ransomware extortionists
FBI: No, do not pay ransomware extortionists By Graham Cluley The roll call of organizations hit by ransomware attacks is depressingly long – hospitals, government departments, school districts, banks, businesses small and large… even law enforcement agencies haven’t...
Criminals Grab W-2s from Credit Bureau Equifax Breach
Reported late last week was an article that exposed a data-loss (breach) where Cyber Criminals stole W-2s from the Credit Bureau Equifax. We will be referring to this as the 'Equifax Breach' here on out. So far, the only place we have been able to find this article...
Hacker Collects 272m Email Addresses With Passwords
Reuters has revealed in a recent article that US security company Hold Security has obtained from a hacker nicknamed 'the collector' a list of 272 millions email addresses and passwords, mainly from Gmail and mail.ru, Yahoo! and Microsoft. Reuters spoke with Alex...
ESET discovers new USB-based data stealing malware
“The USB Thief is, in many aspects different from the more common malware types that we’re used to seeing flooding the internet,” Mr. Gardoň notes. “This one uses only USB devices for propagation, and it does not leave any evidence on the compromised computer. Its...
It just got easier for the government to hack you, wherever you are!
The US Supreme Court has just amended a procedural rule, known as Rule 41, that would allow judges to issue warrants for the government to hack computers anywhere, even outside their jurisdictions or if those computers belong to innocent victims of criminal hacking....
ESET discovers new USB-based data stealing malware
“The USB Thief is, in many aspects different from the more common malware types that we’re used to seeing flooding the internet,” Mr. Gardoň notes. “This one uses only USB devices for propagation, and it does not leave any evidence on the compromised computer. Its...
Security Bulletin: Steps you should take to fix a Java SE security risk on your computer
Oracle, the maker of the Java computer programming language has asked ESET is publishing this information. The reason Oracle made the request because it was ordered to do so by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). That’s correct, the US government can (and has)...
$81M Digital bank heist may not be the last
(Reuters) The cyber-attackers who stole approximate $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank probably hacked into software from the SWIFT financial platform that is at the heart of the global financial system, said security researchers at British defense...
Update, Update, Update or Get Infected
An outdated computer is an infection waiting to happen. This isn't our opinion, it's a widely known fact in information security. There are patches released regularly by your software providers, and more than 80% of those patches or upgrades are to fix vulnerabilities...
Security News You Can Use From Last Week: April 18th 2016 Edition
Our Security Related Blog Posts from Last Week in summary: A roundup of the top security related new of last week; April 18th 2016 Edition. FDIC Breach, ESET VB100 Award, FBI Director tape over his webcam & more. Millions of machines are still running Windows XP ESET...
List of Free Ransomware Decryption Tools
The Windows Club has released a nice list of Ransomware Decryption Tools - and while we would ordinarily just give you a link to this article, because there is a risk that the resource might become a target of a dDoS attack, we're copying the content here to quicker...
US Govt. Recommends Ditch Quicktime for Windows
US-Cert is recommending that you remove Quicktime for Windows. The warning comes on the heels of an article from Trend Micro, which is reporting that Apple has ended support for the popular software, and worse still, that there are active zero-day exploits available...
ESET Scores Another VB100 Award
ESET Endpoint Antivirus recorded strong detection, excellent stability and low resource requirements in the latest Virus Bulletin’s VB100 Comparative Review. Virus Bulletin, a respected testing authority for security solutions, published its latest ‘VB100 Comparative...
Qbot returns and it’s more difficult to spot
BAE Systems has published an article on QBot returning that is “harder to detect and intercept”.. According to a BAE report, the malware has already infected more than 54,000 computers across thousands of organizations. ESET detects this threat as Win32/Qbot and...
FDIC suffers “inadvertent” data breach affecting 44,000 customers
In a blog entry from WeLiveSecurity.com - the ESET blog, we learned that the FDIC has been breached. Their systems appear to have been compromised using the systems issued to or belonging to a former employee. The data was downloaded to the employee's personal storage...
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