Artificial Intelligence Shadow on Cybersecurity: NCSC Warns of Escalating Ransomware Threat
The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a stark warning: in the near future, artificial intelligence (AI) will become a potent weapon in the cybercriminal arsenal, significantly amplifying the threat of ransomware attacks. This assessment, outlined in the NCSC’s recent report on the impact of AI on cyber-operations, underscores the urgent need […]
Dollar Tree Hit by Data Breach Affecting Nearly 2 Million People
Current or former employees of Dollar Tree or Family Dollar may be affected by a data breach that exposed their personal information to hackers. Here’s what to know about the incident and how to protect yourself. What happened? Dollar Tree is a discount retail company that operates the Dollar Tree and Family Dollar stores in […]
Serco Inc Data Breach Exposes Personal Information of Thousands
Serco Inc, the Americas division of multinational outsourcing company Serco Group, has disclosed a data breach that affected over 10,000 individuals. The breach occurred after attackers stole the personal information of current and former employees, contractors, and suppliers from a third-party vendor’s MoveIT managed file transfer (MFT) server. Read: Brave Search Launches Its Own Image […]
WormGPT: A New Threat for Business Email Compromise
Cybercriminals are using a new AI-based tool to create convincing phishing emails and launch business email compromise (BEC) attacks, according to a report by security firm SlashNext. The tool, called WormGPT, is based on the same technology as ChatGPT, a popular chatbot that generates realistic and engaging conversations in multiple languages. However, unlike ChatGPT, which […]
UPS Data Breach: What You Need to Know
UPS, one of the world’s largest shipping companies, has disclosed a data breach that may have exposed some of its Canadian customers’ personal information. The breach occurred after hackers exploited a vulnerability in UPS’s online package look-up tools and used the obtained data to launch SMS phishing (or smishing) attacks. Read: How a Ransomware Attack […]
Gravity Forms Plugin Exposes WordPress Sites to Hackers
Users with the WordPress plugin ‘Gravity Forms‘ on their website should be aware of a serious security vulnerability that could allow attackers to inject malicious PHP objects into the site. Gravity Forms is a premium plugin that lets you create custom forms for various purposes, such as payment, registration, file upload, or surveys. According to […]
North Korea’s cyberattack on Seoul hospital exposed
In a shocking cyberattack, North Korean hackers have breached the network of one of the country’s largest hospitals, Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH), to steal sensitive medical information and personal details of hundreds of thousands of people. The incident occurred between May and June 2021, but the police only revealed it recently after a two-year […]
How to Protect Your Gmail Account from North Korean Hackers
Anyone using Gmail as their primary email service may risk having messages stolen by North Korean hackers. According to a joint cybersecurity advisory from Germany and South Korea, a hacking group known as Kimsuky has been using malicious Chrome extensions to spy on the Gmail account of diplomats, journalists, government agencies, university professors, and politicians. […]
Meta fires dozens of employees for helping to recover accounts fraudulently
The Wall Street Journal just reported that Meta had to fire more than two dozen employees and contractors for fraudulently using a service only internal workers have access to. In the following lines, it will be explained how everything happened in the mother company of Facebook. Read: North Korean hackers are using a Dtrack malware […]
WhatsApp presented two errors that put devices at risk
This week WhatsApp, Meta‘s messaging app, released an emergency update for both Android and iOS. This was due to the fact that they presented several flaws that could expose devices to being hacked remotely. Learn more details below. Read: A 17-year-old teenager may be to blame for the attacks on Uber and GTA A couple […]
Hackers manage to steal millions of dollars from healthcare systems
Hackers have compromised healthcare systems, as indicated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). They warn that cybercriminals have managed to access the processors and change the route of payments to accounts they manage. This attack has become very common this year since, according to expert firms and the FBI’s cybercrime division calculations, more than […]
Cisco confirms hack last May
The large technology company Cisco confirmed in recent days that it was the victim of a cyberattack perpetrated last May. The confirmation comes because the Yanluowang ransomware group published a list of files stolen from Cisco. But there are many more details surrounding this attack and what has been shared these days. Read everything in […]
Meta takes action against cyberespionage groups that abuse its Facebook platform
In recent months, there have been several cases of cyberespionage in different countries that use Facebook as their means of contact. Given this, Meta takes action against them, which led to interesting discoveries about these hackers’ working methods; they were exposed in its Quarterly Adversarial Threat Report. Read the details in the following lines! Read: […]
Risks of connecting to a public WiFi network
Public WiFi networks are gaining more ground every day, something understandable when you notice that many businesses use them to stand out from the competition. Apart from the fact that it is now considered good customer service to have such a network, it does not matter where you are. Now that the holiday season is […]
T-Mobile confirms to have been a Lapsus$’s victim
Although it had been believed that the Lapsus$ extortion group had retired for a vacation, added to the news that several of its members were arrested, including the alleged leader, it turns out that between March and April they have been very active with other attacks on important companies. In this case, T-Mobile, dedicated to […]
Meet DDoSecrets successor to Wikileaks
Julian Assange’s Wikileaks was a very shocking portal that caused a lot of havoc in the world. However, since the arrest of its creator, things in that area had calmed down. But in the year 2020, a new name, DDoSecrets (acronym for Distributed Denial of Secrets) started to emerge. Currently, this group is one of […]
Ukrainian soldiers are hacked
You might think that cyberwarfare only targets large corporations and government agencies of the parties involved in the conflicts. It turns out that, in these modern times, a pattern is being noticed where groups attack and access people’s accounts. In this case, the Ukrainian soldiers were the latest victims of a Belarusian hacker group. Read […]
Alleged members of Lapsus$ were arrested in London
Lapsus$ has become the most wanted cybercriminal group so far after the series of hacks in recent months with high-impact profiles such as Samsung, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and others. It should be noted that their first big blow was last December to a ministry in Brazil. How have they managed to do so much damage with […]
The New Generation of Cybercriminals Surprises
In an increasingly technological and digital world, it should not surprise us that advances in these technologies are quickly learned and used by young people. It is not strange to see children between the ages of 3 and 10 handling a smartphone as if they were adults. That is why the new generation of cybercriminals […]
Hackers Are Using Cloud Services to Spread Malware
Hackers are using cloud services offered by companies like Amazon and Microsoft to successfully distribute malware, such as remote access Trojans known as Nanocore, Netwire, and AsyncRAT, gaining access to systems and compromising information. Read all about this new method in this article. Read: Google Chrome is Patching Several Vulnerabilities Cloud services are the perfect […]