A global fraud campaign has been found leveraging 151 malicious Android apps with 10.5 million downloads to rope users into premium subscription services without their consent and knowledge. The premium SMS scam campaign — dubbed “UltimaSMS”...
Security researchers have discovered over two million social media user profiles scraped from the internet after they were unwittingly exposed online by an analytics firm, Infosecurity can reveal. click here to read full Article...
Over 130 different ransomware families have been found to be active in 2020 and the first half of 2021, with Israel, South Korea, Vietnam, China, Singapore, India, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Iran, and the U.K. emerging...
On Monday, cyber security firm Wiz announced it had raised $250 million in a Series C financing round, which brings the entire amount raised by the company to 600 million dollars. It’s been less...
Ukrainian police said they had arrested a 25-year-old man who hacked more than 100 foreign companies and caused damage worth more than $150 million. The hacker used phishing attacks and hijacked software that allows...
The round was led by SYN Ventures and MassMutual Ventures. The round also included participation from existing investors ClearSky and Rally Ventures, which strengthened their investments in SecZetta. click here to read full Article...
Akamai Technologies has acquired Guardicore to enhance the content delivery network (CDN’s) cybersecurity portfolio. Akamai will pay roughly $600 million to acquire all outstanding Guardicore equity. click here to read full Article Read more...
The new strategy of the Victoria government is based on three core missions of improving the delivery of government services, creating a cyber safe place, and creating a ‘vibrant’ cyber economy. click here to...
“Beginning in 2012, Fahd, 35, conspired with others to recruit AT&T employees at a call centre located in Bothell, Washington, to unlock large numbers of cellular phones for profit,” said the DOJ. click here...
The scammers behind this type of online fraud trend (also known as confidence fraud) use fake online identities to gain potential victims’ trust on dating or social media platforms. click here to read full...
The researchers said that over 61 million records were contained in the data repository, including vast swathes of user information — such as their names, dates of birth, weight, height, gender, and GPS logs,...
Russian internet giant Yandex has been the target of a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a new botnet called Mēris. The botnet is believed to have pummeled the company’s web infrastructure with millions...
The latest round co-led by Sands Capital Ventures and Tiger Global follows a funding round in March when $175 million of new capital was raised. The company was valued at $4.7 billion only six...
Researchers spotted numerous security bugs in the Gutenberg Template Library & Redux Framework plugin that… Gutenberg Template Library Plugin Bugs Affected 1+ Million WordPress Sites on Latest Hacking News. click here to read full...
The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has warned of a massive increase in sextortion complaints since the start of 2021, resulting in total financial losses of more than $8 million until the end...
Hackers are estimated to have stolen more than $29 million in cryptocurrency assets from Cream Finance, a DeFi platform that allows users to loan and speculate on cryptocurrency price variations. click here to read...
