Geico has filed a data breach notice with the California attorney general’s office, admitting that fraudsters had stolen customers’ driver’s license numbers from its website. In the notice, discovered by TechCrunch, the American auto insurance titan said that from January 21st to March 1st this year, bad actors infiltrated its website using information on its…
Long-time democracy campaigner and Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov has said he is very concerned for the health of Alexei Navalny who is three weeks into a prison hunger strike. He told BBC World News: “We understand that the West cannot save Navalny, but it can seal his fate by simply ignoring him.” It was…
SINGAPORE – Scammers are targeting Singaporeans by promoting an allegedly upgraded version of Facebook Messenger that redirects victims to scam sites that steal their data. And it appears they were promoting the scam with ads on Facebook itself. International cyber-security company Group-IB has flagged the scam campaign, which involves about 1,000 fake Facebook profiles targeting…
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Lazarus APT, a North Korean threat actor known for its sophisticated attacks, has been observed using a clever method to bypass security mechanisms by hiding its malicious code within a bitmap (.BMP) image file used to drop a remote access trojan (RAT) capable of stealing sensitive information. According to researchers at Malwarebytes Labs,…
A spear-phishing attack operated by a North Korean threat actor targeting its southern counterpart has been found to conceal its malicious code within a bitmap (.BMP) image file to drop a remote access trojan (RAT) capable of stealing sensitive information.Attributing the attack to the Lazarus Group based on similarities to prior tactics adopted by the adversary, researchers…
3rd Party Risk Management , Endpoint Security , Governance & Risk Management KPN Disputes Reported Surveillance Risk to Users, Who Included Dutch Prime Minister Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 20, 2021 KPN Telecom offices in Amersfoort, the Netherlands (Photo: Vysotsky via Wikimedia Commons) A bombshell news report suggests that Dutch mobile network…
New Delhi, Jubilant Foodworks that owns the master franchise for Domino’s Pizza in India on Tuesday said that although it experienced an information On Sunday, Alon Gal who is CTO of cyber security firm Hudson Rock, claimed that credit card details of nearly 10 lakh people who purchased online on….
Zscaler has agreed to purchase startup Trustdome and its technology that’s used to get control over who and what has access to data, applications, and services in public cloud environments. The cloud security vendor said Ramat Gan, Israel-based Trustdome’s Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) platform will help businesses reduce their public cloud attack surface and…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management Biden Administration Plan Is Part of a Broader Critical Infrastructure Protection Effort Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • April 20, 2021 The Biden administration is rolling out a 100-day plan to improve cybersecurity and address cyberthreats across the nation’s electrical grid….
