Category: CYBER SECURITY

A 36-year-old resident of Netishyn has been detained after the Cyber Police Department, in collaboration with the Svyatoshyn district prosecutor's office, uncovered a major data breach that could have affected more than 300 million people from Ukraine and EU countries.

Missing Authorization and Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities patched in Shield Security, a security plugin with over 50,000 installations.

The vulnerability enables threat actors with contributor-level permissions or higher to inject malicious web scripts into pages using the plugin’s shortcode.

Australians lost a record $3.1 billion to scams in 2022. This is an 80 % increase in total losses recorded in 2021.

Phishing attacks rose nearly 50 percent in 2022 compared to 2021 and education was the most targeted industry, with attacks increasing by 576 percent, a report showed on Tuesday.

US network infrastructure giant CommScope has faced a ransomware attack where cyber-criminals published thousands of employees' data online.

In response to the first zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks since the start of the year, Google has released an emergency Chrome security update.

The notorious ransomware gang, known as LockBit, has seemingly expanded its targets to include Mac devices for the first time, the media reported.

Cyber-security researchers have discovered a new malware that is distributed over the popular chatting platform Discord which has more than 300 million active users.

Hackers have stolen around 10 TB of data from data storage leader Western Digital that allegedly contains customer information.

Microsoft has fixed a zero-day vulnerability affecting all supported versions of Windows, which experts say hackers exploited to launch ransomware attacks, a new report said on Thursday.

This flaw makes it possible for authenticated attackers to grant themselves administrative privileges via a profile update if the targeted site has the ‘Role Management’ setting enabled.

The fear of Pegasus-style spyware attack resurfaced on Tuesday after researchers at Microsoft and the digital rights group Citizen Lab identified new victims in North America, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East -- once again from an Israel-based spyware maker.

While analyzing offers of malicious apps on Google Play for sale on the Darknet, experts have discovered that malicious mobile apps and store developer accounts are being sold for up to $20,000, a new report showed on Tuesday.

Micro-Star International Company Ltd (MSI) suffered a data breach after a ransomware gang claimed it stole files from the PC maker.

Apple has fixed two new zero-day security vulnerabilities exploited in attacks to compromise iPhones, Macs, and iPads, in its latest software update.

Two US-based startups that focussed on counseling alcoholics have been, for years, sharing with advertisers their patients' personal information and health data without their consent, the media reported.