The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA)—working alongside the US Secret Service, Homeland Security, the FBI, Europol, and the District Attorney’s Office of Santa Clara California—spearheaded the arrest of eight British citizens in the UK and Scotland, aged between 18 to 26, for a string of SIM swapping attacks that occurred in 2020. These attacks targeted thousands of people and netted … [Read more...]
February 15, 2021
May 1, 2020
What to do when you receive an extortion e-mail
In the last few weeks, there has been an upswing in people receiving threatening, extortion e-mail messages, demanding payment to avoid release of sensitive information. Most of the time, these e-mails are what we call “sextortion” e-mails, as they claim that malware on your computer has captured embarrassing photos of you through the webcam, but there can be other variants on the same … [Read more...]
November 20, 2019
Disney+ security and service issues: Here’s what we know so far
The long wait is over. Disney+, the new video-streaming service to rival Netflix and Amazon Prime, debuted last week to much fanfare, racking up 10 million subscribers within a single day of launch. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the kind of splash the majority of users predicted, as they were met with connection and performance issues out the gate—soon to be followed by reports of hacked accounts … [Read more...]
September 4, 2019
5 simple steps to securing your remote employees
As remote working has become standard practice, employees are working from anywhere and using any device they can to get the job done. That means repeated connections to unsecured public Wi-Fi networks—at a coffee shop or juice bar, for example—and higher risks for data leaks from lost, misplaced, or stolen devices. Think about it. Let’s say your remote employee uses his personal smart … [Read more...]
September 3, 2019
TrickBot adds new trick to its arsenal: tampering with trusted texts
Researchers from Dell Secureworks saw a new feature in TrickBot that allows it to tamper with the web sessions of users who have certain mobile carriers. According to a blog post that they published early last week, TrickBot can do this by “intercepting network traffic before it is rendered by a victim’s browser.” If you may recall, TrickBot, a well-known banking Trojan we detect as … [Read more...]
August 13, 2019
January 21, 2019
January 7, 2019
Australia’s Early Warning Network compromised
An early warning network designed to notify subscribers about dangerous weather in Australia has been compromised. The hacker sent many bogus messages via phone, SMS, and email, telling users that the service had been hacked. Early Warning Network, a service used by local governments to send notifications about weather hazards, found itself firing these rogue missives into the void late on … [Read more...]
December 4, 2018
November 19, 2018
