In what’s likely to be a goldmine for bad actors, personal information associated with approximately 533 million Facebook users worldwide has been leaked on a popular cybercrime forum for free—which was harvested by hackers in 2019 using a Facebook vulnerability.
The leaked data includes full names, Facebook IDs, mobile numbers, locations, email addresses, gender, occupation, city, country,
The FBI this week published its Internet Crime Report for 2020, and the agency said it received nearly 800,000 cybercrime complaints last year, with reported losses totaling $4.2 billion. The number of complaints received by the FBI in 2020 increased significantly compared to the previous year, when it got roughly 467,000 complaints. The total reported…
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware Accenture Security: Attackers Focus on Those With Over $1 Billion in Revenue Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • July 2, 2021 Hades ransom note (Source: Accenture Security) At least seven companies with annual revenue of over $1 billion have been hit so far this year by Hades ransomware, according…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said that the same group of online extortionists blamed for striking the Irish health system last week have also hit at least 16 U.S. medical and first response networks in the past year. From a report: In an alert made public Thursday by the American Hospital Association, the FBI said…
3rd Party Risk Management , Application Security , Application Security & Online Fraud Cisco NFV Infrastructure Software Users Urged to Patch Immediately Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • September 4, 2021 (Photo: Cisco Networks) Cisco has released an urgent software update to fix a critical authentication bug, that can allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to…
Global payments processor VISA warns that threat actors are increasingly deploying web shells on compromised servers to exfiltrate credit card information stolen from online store customers. Web shells are tools (scripts or programs) deployed by threat actors to gain and/or maintain access to hacked servers, remotely execute arbitrary code or commands, move laterally within a target’s…
Forensics , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Banisher of ‘The Kaminsky Bug’ Lauded for His Drive to ‘Make Things Better’ Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 27, 2021 Dan Kaminsky in an interview conducted at the 2016 RSA Conference in San Francisco (Photo: ISMG) The information security community is mourning…
