Threat actors have deployed new ransomware on the back of a set of PowerShell scripts developed for making encryption, exploiting flaws in unpatched Exchange Servers to attack the corporate network, according to recent research.

Researchers from security firm Sophos detected the new ransomware, called Epsilon Red, in an investigation of an…

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When it comes to the internet, countries are constantly attacking each other, and cybercriminals are in every single nation. That’s according to Eugene Kaspersky, the Russian founder and CEO of IT security company Kaspersky Lab.

Speaking to Moscow daily Kommersant on Tuesday, Kaspersky explained that not everything should be blamed on ‘Russian…

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The world is about to see a wave of new mafia-style ransomware attacks that could potentially target sensitive infrastructure like hospitals or chemical plants, Germany’s cybersecurity agency (BSI) warns.

“We strongly believe that ransomware attacks will not decrease in the near future,” BSI specialist Dirk Haeger told Germany’s Die Zeit…

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Air India has said the personal data of millions of passengers was compromised as the result of a cyberattack. The stolen information included credit card and passport details.

India’s national carrier and largest international airline informed the public of the breach on Friday.

“This incident affected around 4,500,000 data subjects in the…

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A ransomware group which locked Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) out of its IT systems a week ago has shared a decryption tool that could allow restoration of operations, the Irish government has announced.

The move by the hackers was “an encouraging development,” the government said in a statement on Thursday.

The country’s National Cyber…

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A major security flaw has been found in laptops and desktops by Dell that could have allowed cyber attackers to gain access to the systems. The cybersecurity research team by Sentinel Labs, which spotted the vulnerability, says that millions of Dell laptops and desktops are at risk due to this.

The team says that the flaw could have led to a…

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Security researchers have found a critical vulnerability in Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered smartphones that could allow any malicious app to patch the software and, consequently, gain access to the call and text history and record conversations. But Qualcomm has confirmed that it “made fixes available to OEMs” last year in December, and asked…

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An update to the UK’s NHS ‘Track and Trace’ app set to go live on Monday was blocked by Apple and Google due to concerns it violated a privacy rule prohibiting health authorities from collecting location data from users.

The new version of the app was due to come into effect today to coincide with the changes to lockdown rules in England but the…

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So Apple is not the only company that has a problem with Google’s ad tracking. DuckDuckGo has slammed Google’s ad tracking method and has said that it is bad for privacy and groups users according to their browser history and any website can use that group ID to target them with ads etc.

Google recently announced FloC (Federated Learning of…

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A trove of personal data, including full names, phone numbers and emails of a whopping 533 million Facebook users has reportedly been leaked online. The social media giant downplayed the incident, claiming that the data was “old.”

A huge database that previously circulated privately, has now been published on a hacking forum for free, according…

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A Google hacking team has exposed — and shut down — an expert counterterrorism hacking operation by a supposed US ally. While the report hid most details, it raised troubling questions on what constitutes an ally in cyberspace.

The tech giant’s Project Zero and Threat Analysis Group hacking teams uncovered and ultimately put an end to a…

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With 2016’s ‘Snooper’s Charter’ supposedly failing to deliver the goods on this terrorist suspect or that mean tweeter, the UK is expanding its surveillance powers further with a law that makes the Patriot Act look cuddly.

Over the last two years, British intelligence has been determinedly brainstorming ways to not only hack into your…

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The US military is reviewing its networks following a hacking spree linked to a vulnerability that gave backdoor access to tens of thousands of Microsoft Exchange servers, in a massive attack the company has blamed on China.

“We are aware of the Microsoft threat intelligence center’s report. We are currently assessing our networks right now for…

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A 28-year-old has been arrested after allegedly carrying out what police have labelled a “sophisticated cyber attack” on a school.

The unnamed man is suspected of disrupting Welland Park Academy in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England. A police spokesman told a local news website: “Officers received a report of a major IT outage at the…

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The cybersecurity company SonicWall Inc. said it had been the victim of a coordinated attack on its internal systems by “highly sophisticated” hackers.

The Silicon Valley-based company said in a statement that the two products compromised provide users with remote access to internal resources.

The attackers exploited so-called “zero days” — a…

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Ring’s Neighbors app exposed users’ home addresses and specific locations before the company became aware of the security issue.

The security bug affected users who posted on the neighborhood watch app, which lets residents report nearby crimes or public-safety issues. The Amazon-owned app was retrieving hidden data, including users’…

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WhatsApp delays privacy policy update as fleeing users voice concerns over Facebook data-sharing with NO opt-out. Do you trust an oppressive left wing control freak to keep his word when he suppresses free speech on his platforms?

WhatsApp said it will push back a planned policy update to give users time to review its terms amid fears…

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Second prayer app caught harvesting user location data may have snitched on Muslims to ICE and the FBI.

A popular Muslim prayer app has been secretly collecting its users’ location data, according to Vice. A network of data brokers links the app to US government law enforcement agencies such as ICE and the FBI.

The app called Salaat First (Prayer…

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Just days after rolling out its new policy obliging users to share their data with Facebook, WhatsApp has suffered an embarrassing privacy breach, with its private chat groups being indexed on Google’s search engine.

The privacy breach was reported on Sunday. Invite links to private WhatsApp messaging groups as well as some user profiles were…

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The media office of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is reportedly shutting down its WhatsApp groups over privacy concerns. The move comes after Ankara called for a nationwide boycott of the Facebook-owned messaging app.

Starting on Monday, the office is switching over to encrypted messaging app BiP, which is developed by Turkish…

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America has been increasingly concerned about the potential for surveillance from leading Chinese tech companies. But a new report suggests the US is primarily concerned with maintaining its own dominance of digital espionage.

Claiming that companies such as Huawei, ZTE, Bytedance (the owner of TikTok) and many more are extensions of China’s…

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While there has been much debate about how remote work will continue once vaccines come out, it seems that things might not change that much.

A Gartner, Inc. survey revealed that 90% of respondents plan to allow employees to work remotely at least part of the time, even after the COVID-19 vaccine is widely adopted.

Sixty-five percent of…

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The rollout of new Microsoft 365 features to track productivity, which would monitor 73 pieces of “granular data” about workers, was meant to be a boon time for the technology company. But it quickly turned into a nightmare. Announced in October, and criticised heavily by technology researcher Wolfie Christl in November, the feature –…

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Ever since the launch of Microsoft’s operating system, Windows 10 it was found to be spying on its users, and still does.

Curious to know the extent of Windows 10 spying, a VOAT user identified as CheesusCrust, set up his Linux laptop with a Windows 10 Enterprise virtual machine as well as a DD-WRT router that was being utilized to…

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If your company says that you will get a holiday bonus this year, it will be one of the best things to hear in 2020. A popular service provider firm, GoDaddy did the same recently, except that it was a deaf phishing test and got backfired on social media.

Although it seemed about awarding employees with extra cash, those who failed the test,…

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Apple was barred from offering customers encrypted iCloud storage because US intelligence agencies insisted on maintaining open access to users’ files, their primary means of evidence-gathering, sources claim.

The FBI quashed a planned feature that would have allowed Apple users to encrypt their iCloud storage, claiming that it would cut the…

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The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the FBI, accusing the law enforcement agency of breaking the encryption on iPhones and other devices without letting ordinary users know they’re no longer secure.

The FBI “already have technical capabilities permitting them to decrypt, unlock, or otherwise access information on…

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With the plandemic essentially halting travel, Clear — once in the business of streamlining security checks at airports — is now in search of other opportunities. For a company whose bread and butter is biometric identify verification, the solutions lie, well, everywhere, reports Dave Gershgorn for OneZero.

Clear sees its future as an identity…

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Stand up and applaud Poland, they are standing up for our rights against the left wing EU and left wing social media oppressive companies.

Social media companies that remove posts whose content is legal can be fined up to €1.8 million under a new Polish bill. Users have welcomed its introduction as an antidote to other countries’ growing…

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Cyber-war on Israel? ‘Iran-linked’ hacker group claims to have breached Israel Aerospace Industries’ servers.

The relatively “new” hacker group Pay2Key claimed on Sunday they had hacked into the systems of various Israeli defense industry corporations, including Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI).

The group teased the hack last week by posting…

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The personal phones of some 36 Al Jazeera journalists have been hacked by “government operatives” who used a controversial spying tool by Israel’s infamous NSO Group to snoop on them, a report by a Canadian research lab claims.

The report, released on Sunday by Citizen Lab, a research unit at the University of Toronto specializing in…

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The personal phones of some 36 Al Jazeera journalists have been hacked by “government operatives” who used a controversial spying tool by Israel’s infamous NSO Group to snoop on them, a report by a Canadian research lab claims.

The report, released on Sunday by Citizen Lab, a research unit at the University of Toronto specializing in…

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Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar wants Amazon’s new Halo device investigated for its collection of personal data. Even the Washington Post, owned by Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, called it “the most invasive tech we’ve ever tested.”

An unassuming-looking gray wristband, Amazon’s Halo collects such intimate personal data that it “just cries out for some…

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Social networking site Twitter has been fined €450,000 ($547,000) under the EU’s GDPR law in a world first, for failing to provide a timely report about a data breach that made some private tweets public.

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) slapped Twitter with the fine for infringing the European General Data Protection Regulation…

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The Pay2Key ransomware group on Sunday posted what appear to be details of internal files obtained from Habana Labs, an Israel-based chip startup acquired a year ago by Intel.

The hacking group, which has been linked to Iran by security firm Check Point, published a screenshot of source code credited to Habana Labs via Twitter, alongside a link…

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What happens when someone uses your email address to sign up for PayPal and more!

Many companies have no mechanism to deal with a common problem: when users open accounts using someone else’s email address, either by accident or design. “I have had a barrage of account creation requests that will fail … also a large number of invoices,…

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Ad-scamming, login-stealing Windows malware is hitting Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Yandex browsers, says Microsoft.

Microsoft warned that there’s an ongoing campaign to distribute malware that modifies web browsers to conduct credential theft and ad fraud.

Since at least May, 2020, unidentified cybercriminals have been distributing a family of…

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The global transition towards remote working has led many people to develop some rather strange new habits, new research has suggested.

A global report from Kaspersky found that many workers are enjoying the freedom of not being in the office and relaxing a number of personal standards whilst at home.

11% even said they were working in the…

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Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine documents ‘unlawfully accessed’ in cyberattack on EU medicines regulator. What have they got to hide and we are supposed to have all the facts, so why are the eu and Pfizer so worried by this hack? What do they have to hide?

Documents relating to the regulatory submission of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine…

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Microsoft has been accused of downplaying the severity of a security issue found in its collaboration platform Teams, which was remedied quietly back in October.

According to a report from security engineer Oskars Vegeris, the company failed to warn users of the problem and neither did it seek Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures…

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Root command injection flaw could allow attackers to take over vulnerable routers.

A previously undisclosed vulnerability has been discovered in VPN routers from D Link that could allow an attacker to take full control over the affected devices.

The Vulnerability Research Team (VRT) at the threat management firm digital defence discovered a…

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A new spear-phishing campaign has been discovered that uses spoof Microsoft Exchange emails to target Office 365 users. The well-coordinated attack has a broad range of targets but appears to be predominantly focused on Office 365 users within several key industries, including healthcare, insurance, financial services, and…

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The electronics giant Foxconn, which manufacturers Apple’s iPhone and many other popular devices, has fallen victim to a ransomware attack at one of its five factories in Mexico.

As reported by BleepingComputer, the ransomware attack occurred over the the Thanksgiving weekend and the attackers managed to steal unencrypted files from the…

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Apple threatens to block apps that track users without permission under new privacy move.

Tech giant Apple has warned developers that their apps could be pulled from its store if they refuse to comply with a new Tracking Transparency framework it says prevents advertisers from gathering user data.

Apple’s new App Tracking Transparency feature…

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In July the EU privacy watchdog ordered data transfers to US under ‘Privacy Shield’ protocol to stop immediately after Facebook lawsuit.

The European Union’s Data Protection Board has ordered data transfers between the EU and the US under the ‘Privacy Shield’ protocol to cease immediately after the instrument was found incompatible with EU law…

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A group led by privacy activist Max Schrems has filed complaints with German and Spanish data protection authorities, accusing Apple of breaching EU laws with its tracking tool, alleging it handles users’ data without consent.

The complaints, made on behalf of individual Spanish and German consumers, were filed by the digital rights group…

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Google researchers reveal exploit that let hackers ‘own’ iPhones REMOTELY – but waited 6 months to tell the world!

A Google hacker was able to weaponize the iPhone’s remote network to gain total access to the device, not only reading its contents but snooping through the camera and mic – six months ago. Users are only now finding out.

Ian Beer,…

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Medical data of Israeli officials leaked online after insurance firm refuses to pay $1mn ransom to cyberhackers

The medical records of Israeli officials are among data reportedly leaked online after an insurance firm was hacked, but refused to cede to the cyber-attackers’ demands to hand over nearly $1 million ransom in Bitcoin.

Israeli insurer…

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