The town of Midland, Ontario, Canada, has decided to pay cybercriminals after its servers were targeted and infected with a nasty ransomware on Saturday, September 1, at approximately 2 a.m.(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle ||...
The ransomware attack also forced employees to use hand receipts. Two municipalities in Alaska (one town and one borough to be precise) have become victims of sophisticated encryption-based malware (ransomware) attack. Reportedly, the...
What is shocking about this incident is that what the Uber driver did was legal under Missouri law. Jason Gargac, an Uber and Lyft driver from St Louis Missouri, USA recorded and live-streamed his passengers' activities on the video-sharing...
The Sextortion Campaign involves Passwords Stolen from Old Data Breaches. Internet users need to be wary of a new phishing scam that is actually a sextortion scheme, which utilizes old passwords of users and blackmails them for watching...
Google says third-party developers can read your Gmail because you allow them. In 2014, during a lawsuit hearing, Google acknowledged that the company reads users' emails and that Gmail users should not expect privacy. Then, in June last year,...
Last year the credit reporting firm Equifax revealed how unknown hackers stole a personal data of over 143 million Americans - In another incident, sensitive data of 123 million American Households were leaked online.Now, Exactis, a Florida...
Fortnite, a popular multiplayer sandbox survival game from Epic Games has over 125 million players worldwide and that makes it a lucrative target for malicious hackers. The game's paid-for early access title was released on July 25th, 2017 for...
Security incidents where hackers distribute malicious code (malware) via spam, phishing, exploits and compromised websites are hitting the headlines all the time. However, not all cybercriminals are super proficient in programming or have enough...
The Australia-based SaaS provider firm PageUp has confirmed discovering ‘unusual activity’ on its IT infrastructure and identified the presence of a malware on its system. On May 23rd, the HR company posted a statement on its official...
Hackers are conducting Double Spend attack on cryptocurrency exchanges and the latest victim is Bitcoin Gold. It is claimed that cryptocurrencies operate a lot more privately and safely than traditional currencies. But, it has been observed...
