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The Brazilian federal police reported advances around an investigation into a cybercrime organization supposedly responsible for exposing personal details of senior government officials including president Jair Bolsonaro. The investigation follows a leak earlier this month, claimed by hacker group Anonymous Brazil, involving personal information relating to Bolsonaro, his sons and supporters, as well as various […] More
Up until recently, Docker servers misconfigured and left exposed online have been historically targeted with cryptocurrency-mining malware, which has helped criminal groups generate huge profits by hijacking someone else’s cloud resources. However, in a report published this week, security researchers from Trend Micro have discovered what appears to be the first organized and persistent series […] More
Magecart attackers are suspected of using an interesting technique to steal your financial data. More
The vast majority of security vulnerabilities in open-source projects reside in indirect dependencies rather than directly and first-hand loaded components. “Aggregating the numbers from all ecosystems, we found more than three times as many vulnerabilities in indirect dependencies than we did direct dependencies,” Alyssa Miller, Application Security Advocate at Snyk, told ZDNet in an interview […] More
Nvidia has released a set of security updates to remove vulnerabilities in the Nvidia GPU Display Driver. This week, the tech giant published a security advisory for a total of six bugs in the driver, varying in severity with CVSS scores of between 5.5 and 7.8 and impacting both Windows and Linux machines. The first […] More
Australian beverage giant Lion has provided another update to the ransomware attack it suffered earlier this month, saying that over the past week, the company has continued to make progress in restoring many of its key systems. With data purporting to be from the company said to be available on the “dark web”, Lion, formerly […] More
More online shoppers are falling for scams in Singapore, where cybercrime accounted for 26.8% of all crimes last year with e-commerce scams the most popular. Some 9,430 cybercrime cases were reported last year, up 51.7% from 2018 when there were 6,215 cases. E-commerce remained the leading tactic used by scammers who hoodwinked 2,809 victims in […] More
A 22-year-old from Vancouver, Washington was sentenced today to 13 months in prison for creating and operating multiple DDoS botnets made up of home routers and other networking and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The US Department of Justice said Kenneth Currin Schuchman, known online under the monicker of Nexus Zeta, created multiple IoT botnets, […] More
