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Malicious USB Drive Hides Behind Gift Card Lure
by Dark Reading Staff on March 27, 2020 at 8:00 pm
Victims are being enticed to insert an unknown USB drive into their computers.
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Purported Brute-Force Attack Aims at Linksys Routers as More People Work Remotely
by Robert Lemos Contributing Writer on March 27, 2020 at 4:10 pm
The attack takes control of poorly secured network devices, redirecting Web addresses to a COVID-themed landing page that attempts to fool victims into downloading malware.
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Cyber Version of ‘Justice League’ Launches to Fight COVID-19 Related Hacks
by Jai Vijayan Contributing Writer on March 26, 2020 at 11:15 pm
Goal is to help organizations – especially healthcare entities – protect against cybercriminals trying to take advantage of the pandemic.
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As Zoom Booms, Incidents of ‘ZoomBombing’ Become a Growing Nuisance
by Elizabeth Montalbano on March 26, 2020 at 3:51 pm
Numerous instances of online conferences being disrupted by pornographic images, hate speech or even threats can be mitigated using some platform tools.
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Chinese Hackers Exploit Cisco, Citrix Flaws in Massive Espionage Campaign
by Lindsey O’Donnell on March 25, 2020 at 3:57 pm
Researchers say that APT41’s exploits are part of one of the broadest espionage campaigns they’ve seen from a Chinese-linked actor “in recent years.”
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GE Employees Lit Up with Sensitive Doc Breach
by Tara Seals on March 25, 2020 at 3:38 pm
Marriage, divorce and death certificates, beneficiary info, passports and more were all caught up in an email takeover hack.
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Incident Of The Week: Australian Government Directory Breached In First Cyberatt…
by Esther Shein on January 4, 2019 at 8:54 pm
The first data breach of 2019 came less than 24 hours into the new year when the private data of 30,000 Australian civil servants was stolen in a phishing attack. The breach occurred when a directory…
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Incident Of The Week: NASA Reveals Employee Data Breach In Memo
by Esther Shein on December 28, 2018 at 3:29 am
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said that one of its servers was hacked earlier this year, exposing personal data of current and former employees including social securit…
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Critical buffer overflow in CODESYS allows remote code execution
by Pierluigi Paganini on March 28, 2020 at 3:36 pm
Experts discovered an easily exploitable heap-based buffer overflow flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-10245, that exists in the CODESYS web server. A […]
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Hackers target zero-day flaws in enterprise Draytek network devices
by Pierluigi Paganini on March 28, 2020 at 11:27 am
Experts from Qihoo 360’s NetLab recently spotted two zero-day campaigns targeting DrayTek enterprise-grade networking devices. Since December […]