Category: CYBER SECURITY

The Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG), which owns Holiday Inn, was the target of a destructive cyberattack by hackers who claimed they did it “for fun”. According to the BBC, the IHG identified as a couple from Vietnam and claim that after attempting a ransomware assault,...

Ride-hailing platform Uber on Friday said it has been hit by a cyber attack and is probing the data breach incident with law enforcement officials. According to reports, some of Uber’s internal systems were hacked in the data breach and some screenshots on Twitter suggested...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has received multiple reports of cyber criminals increasingly targeting healthcare payment processors to redirect victim payments. In each of these reports, unknown cyber criminals used employees’ publicly-available Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and social engineering techniques to impersonate victims and...

The South Korean government has witnessed nearly 560,000 foreign hacking attempts into its key computer systems over the past six years, with a combined 43 percent from China and the US, a report revealed on Tuesday. According to the Interior Ministry report submitted to Rep....

Retail was the second-most targeted industry by ransomware last year of all sectors, after media, leisure, and entertainment sectors, a report has shown. Globally, 77 percent of retail organizations surveyed were hit — a 75 percent increase from 2020. This is also 11 percent more...

A website operating as a marketplace for over 5.85 million records of personally identifying information (PII) was seized today by Portuguese authorities and a federal criminal complaint charging the website’s alleged operator has been unsealed.  Law enforcement in the U.S. has also seized four domains...

A hacking group known as ‘AgainstTheWest’ created a topic on a hacking forum claiming to have breached both TikTok and WeChat, Bleepingcomputer reports. The user shared screenshots of an alleged database belonging to the companies, which they say was accessed on an Alibaba cloud instance...

A hacker has siphoned off $185,000 from Hollywood star Bill Murray’s digital wallet after he successfully completed the charity auction of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). CoinDesk reports that as soon as Murray’s NFT action that raised 119.2 Ethereum (around $185,000) for charity got closed, a hacker...

Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team has discovered a vulnerability in the TikTok app for Android that can let hackers take over private, short-form videos of millions of users once they clicked on a malicious link. Microsoft discovered a high-severity vulnerability in the TikTok Android application,...

Researchers at Securonix have spotted a new malware campaign dubbed ‘GO#WEBBFUSCATOR’ that relies on phishing emails, malicious documents, and space images from the James Webb telescope to spread malware. The malware is written in Golang, a programming language that is gaining popularity among cybercriminals because it is...

LinkedIn is being used by hackers to spread data-stealing malware via sending connection requests in disguise of people working with reputed companies, a report showed on Tuesday. Researchers from AI cyber-security firm CloudSEK found that scammers are exploiting LinkedIn’s chat and job posting features to...