Communications company Twilio discloses a data breach after threat actors have stolen employee credentials in an SMS phishing attack.
Communications company Twilio discloses a data breach, threat actors had access to the data of some of its customers. The attackers accessed company systems using employee credentials obtained through a sophisticated SMS ph
US convenience store chain, 7-Eleven, said Monday that it had closed its outlets in Denmark after a suspected hacker attack knocked out their cash tills. "We suspect that we have been the victim of a hacker attack today, Monday, August 8", the group which runs 175 convenience stores in Denmark wrote on Facebook. "We can't use the cash registers nor accept
Greece has extradited a Russian money launderer to the US, hours after his release from a French jail, his lawyer said Friday.Zoe Konstantopoulou said Alexander Vinnik "was loaded onto a private plane to the US" without being allowed to lodge an asylum request in Greece.A source with knowledge of the case in France said Vinnik had been handed back to Greek a
FBI Says Hackers Stole $42.7 Million From Crypto Investors and Financial Institutions
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned about rising crypto scams. Over the last couple of years, approximately 244 victims have lost nearly $43 million after being tricked into installing fake crypto apps. Criminals have been contacting financial institutions and
Threat actors abuse open redirects on Snapchat and American Express to launch phishing attacks against Microsoft 365 users.
Attackers abused open redirects on the websites of Snapchat and American Express as part of a phishing campaign targeting Microsoft 365 users.
The term Open URL redirection, open redirects, refers to a security issue that makes it
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Greek intelligence service used surveillance malware to spy on a journalist, Reuters reportsS
Gas and electricity price concerns are rife at the moment, with spiralling costs and bigger increases waiting down the line. Sadly this makes the subject valuable material for fraudsters, playing into people’s fears with a dash of social engineering to make them worse off than they were previously.
Warnings abound of several energy / cost of living-
Twitter confirmed that the recent data breach that exposed data of 5.4 million accounts was caused by the exploitation of a zero-day flaw.
At the end of July, a threat actor leaked data of 5.4 million Twitter accounts that were obtained by exploiting a now-fixed vulnerability in the popular social media platform.
The threat actor offered for sale the s
The cryptocurrency bridge Nomad is the last victim of a cyber heist, threat actors stole almost $200 million of its funds.
Another crypto heist made the headlines, threat actors stole nearly $200 million worth of cryptocurrency from the bridge Nomad. Nomad Bridge is a cross-chain bridge between Ethereum, Moonbeam, Avalanche, Evmos and Milkomeda.
The pr
Major Taiwanese government websites were temporarily forced offline by cyber attacks believed to be linked to China and Russia during US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to the island, Taipei said Thursday.The websites of the presidential office, foreign ministry and the main government English portal came under attack Tuesday night when Pelosi arrived for
German power electronics manufacturer Semikron revealed this week that it has been targeted in a cyberattack.Semikron, which employs 3,000 people across 24 subsidiaries worldwide, makes power modules and systems. Its products are used in motor drives, industrial automation systems, as well as other application areas.In a notice posted on its website on Monda
Semikron, a German-based independent manufacturer of power semiconductor components, suffered a ransomware cyberattck.
Semikron is a German-based independent manufacturer of power semiconductor components, it employs more than 3,000 people in 24 subsidiaries worldwide, with production sites in Germany, Brazil, China, France, India, Ita
Voting in Britain's Conservative party leadership election has been delayed after government cyber experts raised concerns over potential hacking of members' ballots.The delay might benefit Rishi Sunak, who trails in polls of Tory members against Liz Truss in the race to succeed Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and is hoping to claw back ground in a campaigning
Cryptocurrency bridge Nomad has lost nearly all of its funds as a result of a hack described by experts as chaotic. Losses total nearly $200 million, but the company appears hopeful that it will recover at least some of it.Nomad, which describes itself as a ‘security-first cross-chain messaging protocol’, enables users to trade tokens between different block
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Politically-motivated cyberattacks dominated the DDoS landscape in the second quarter of 2022 just as they did in the previous reporting period. ALtahrea Team, a group targeting NATO and its partners, attacked public transportation websites in Israel and the United Kingdom. Israel saw a cyberattack on the Airports Authority, and UK, an attack o
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