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  • "Online Payment Fraud to Top $343bn Over Next Five Years"

    A recent study by security researchers from Juniper Research suggests that total losses to online payment fraud will exceed $343bn globally over the next five years, driven largely by fraudster innovation in areas such as account takeover fraud and…

  • "Ransomware Attack Hits French Telecoms Firm"

    On July 4th, French telecoms operator La Poste Mobile was a victim of a ransomware attack targeting the company's administrative and management systems.  The attack is believed to have been carried out by the LockBit ransomware group.  The…

  • "Ransomware Locks Indian Flood Monitors During Monsoon Season"

    A ransomware attack on a flood monitoring system in India's southwestern coastal state of Goa during peak rainy season is interfering with real-time water level monitoring. The Goa Department of Water Resources blamed an Internet-facing server's lack of…

  • "BlackCat (aka ALPHV) Ransomware Is Increasing Stakes up to $2.5 Million in Demands"

    The BlackCat ransomware gang's ransom demand requests have increased significantly in value, according to Resecurity (USA). The cybercriminal syndicate actively competes with Conti and the updated LockBit 3.0, and has recently introduced a search based…

  • "PyPI Mandates 2FA for Critical Projects, Developer Pushes Back"

    The Python Package Index (PyPI), the official repository of third-party open-source Python projects, has announced plans to require two-factor authentication (2FA) for maintainers of projects deemed critical. Although many members of the Python community…

  • "23 Million Accounts' Data Exposed in Mangatoon Data Breach"

    A hacker accessed an insecure Elasticsearch database, exposing information from 23 million Mangatoon user accounts. Millions of people use the popular iOS and Android app Mangatoon for online manga comics. Recently, 23 million Mangatoon accounts were…

  • "Hackers Exploiting Follina Bug to Deploy Rozena Backdoor"

    A new phishing campaign has been discovered using the recently disclosed Follina security vulnerability to distribute a previously unknown backdoor on Windows systems. According to Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Cara Lin, Rozena is a backdoor…

  • "Diabetes Patients Flood FDA with Comments on Cybersecurity for Medical Devices"

    More than a thousand comments were submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in response to a draft cybersecurity guidance intended for staff to use when reviewing applications from medical device manufacturers seeking approval to market their…

  • "Hackers Target National Portal of India via 'Unprecedented' Phishing Technique"

    Cybersecurity researchers discovered an unprecedented and sophisticated phishing tactic that has been used against official government websites globally, including the Indian government's portal. According to the Artificially Intelligence (AI)-driven…

  • "New 'HavanaCrypt' Ransomware Distributed as Fake Google Software Update"

    Security researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a new ransomware family that is being delivered as a fake Google Software Update application.  The researchers dubbed the ransomware HavanaCrypt.  This ransomware performs multiple anti-…

  • "Disneyland's Instagram and Facebook Accounts Hacked to Show Racist Content"

    Disneyland's Facebook and Instagram accounts were taken over recently by a self-proclaimed "super hacker" who posted a series of racist and homophobic posts.  The hacker, operating under the name "David Do," was seeking "revenge" on Disneyland…

  • "New NIST Post-quantum Standards Make Use of Research by Prof. Chris Peikert"

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently announced the first standard series of quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms, a significant step toward securing digital data in a post-quantum world. The emergence of viable quantum…