Cyber Security News

FBI Warns of Attacks against Software Supply Chain
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FBI Warns of Attacks against Software Supply Chain

Last week the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) sent out an alert warning the private industry of continued attacks carried out against software supply-chain companies. The report is yet to be released to the public as it is intended as a Private Industry Notification (PIN) which is only sent

Cyber criminals exploiting the name of Coronavirus
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Cyber criminals exploiting the name of Coronavirus

Over the last several weeks the global health emergency surrounding the Coronavirus has overshadowed many other world events. Daily breaking news surrounding the virus’ spread too far-flung regions demand attention. Now, hackers are looking to further their own aims by abusing the medical threat pos

MageCart Gang Compromises Olympic Ticket Site and Others
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MageCart Gang Compromises Olympic Ticket Site and Others

Last week this publication covered the arrest of three individuals accused of being part of a MageCart gang in Indonesia. This week brings more related news regarding MageCart attacks but so far none of this group has yet to be brought in front of a court. MageCart attacks often involve the injectio

Wawa Card Breach Totals Over 30 Million
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Wawa Card Breach Totals Over 30 Million

For most of the Western World, December is associated with a myriad of holidays, for many hackers, it is open season. Consumers are warned to be careful when shopping online and companies are warned that they will be targets of what to some is a holiday period. When Wawa announced on December 19, 20

First Ever Arrests Associated with MageCart Attacks
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First Ever Arrests Associated with MageCart Attacks

In the fourth quarter of 2019, a spike in MageCart attacks was seen. The most infamous of which involved British Airways which involved nearly 400,000 individuals becoming victims through only a piece of code 22 lines long. Then in November, that same year details emerged detailing how Macy’s also f

Ransomware Costs Double on the Backs of Sodinokibi and Ryuk
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Ransomware Costs Double on the Backs of Sodinokibi and Ryuk

Ransomware continues to be a major bane facing enterprises and government organizations, with the latest high profile victim being Travelex. The currency exchange suffered a Sodinokibi attack, which left some of the company’s online services offline for three weeks. Another new worry for those taske

Ubisoft sues Rainbow Six Siege DDoS Operators
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Ubisoft sues Rainbow Six Siege DDoS Operators

Online gaming has long been a target for hackers, whether to cheat or to deny other gamers the service they have in many cases paid for. In denying other players the online service hackers will often employ distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Not only do such attacks prevent other players

Proof-Of-Concept Code for Curveball Released
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Proof-Of-Concept Code for Curveball Released

It seems like the start of the year is not complete without a new and dangerous vulnerability been disclosed to the public. Last year it was the Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities. This year the new threat is posed by CVE-2020-0601, better known as Curveball. The vulnerability is described as