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A new file wiping malware called Meteor was discovered used in the recent attacks against Iran’s railway system. Earlier this month, Iran’s transport ministry and national train system suffered a cyberattack, causing the agency’s websites to shut down and disrupting train service. The threat actors also displayed messages on the railway’s message boards stating that trains…

Are you doing enough to prevent scammers from hijacking your social media accounts? Even if you have chosen a strong, unique password for your online presence and enabled two-factor authentication it’s possible that you’ve overlooked another way in which online criminals could commandeer your social media accounts and spam out a message to your followers….

Cybercrime , DDoS Protection , Endpoint Security 17.2 Million Request-Per-Second Attack Launched by 20,000 Bots, Cloudflare Says Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • August 21, 2021     Security firm Cloudflare says it detected and mitigated a 17.2 million request-per-second distributed denial-of-service attack, almost three times larger than any previously reported HTTP DDoS attack. See Also: 2021…

A man washes a cow in the Mekong river in Phnom Penh November 7, 2012. REUTERS/Samrang Pring PHNOM PENH/HANOI, July 22 (Reuters) – Buried in a long U.S. indictment accusing China of a global cyberespionage campaign was a curious detail: Among the governments targeted by Chinese hackers was Cambodia, one of Beijing’s most loyal Asian…

Google is still racing to pull Android apps that commit major privacy violations. Ars Technica notes that Google has removed nine apps from the Play Store after Dr. Web analysts discovered they were trojans stealing Facebook login details. These weren’t obscure titles — the malware had over 5.8 million combined downloads and posed as easy-to-find…

Campbell Conroy & O’Neil, P.C. (Campbell), a US law firm counseling dozens of Fortune 500 and Global 500 companies, has disclosed a data breach following a February 2021 ransomware attack. Campbell’s client list includes high-profile companies from various industry sectors, including automotive, aviation, energy, insurance, pharmaceutical, retail, hospitality, and transportation. Some of its current and past clients…