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Serco Inc Data Breach Exposes Personal Information of Thousands

Serco Inc Data Breach

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

WormGPT

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 Data Breach

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

Gravity Forms

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

Seoul hospital

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 […]