04 Apr Saks Fifth Avenue suffered from Data Breach
A data breach at department store chains Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off Fifth and Lord & Taylor has compromised the personal information of customers who shopped at the stores. The chains'...
30 Mar Under Armour Says 150 Million MyFitnessPal Accounts Hacked
Under Armour Inc., joining a growing list of corporate victims of hacker attacks, said about 150 million user accounts tied to its MyFitnessPal nutrition-tracking app were breached earlier this year. An...
15 Mar Over 400,000 PCs Affected By Backdoored Russian BitTorrent Client
Nearly over 400,000 computers were infected with cryptocurrency mining malware during a 12-hour period that was caused by a backdoored version of popular Russian-based BitTorrent client called MediaGet. The malware campaign dubbed Dofoil...
09 Mar Over 15,000 Memcached DDoS Attacks Hit 7,100 Sites in Last 10 Days
Memcached reflections that recently fueled two most largest amplification DDoS attacks in the history have also helped other cybercriminals launch nearly 15,000 cyber attacks against 7,131 unique targets in last ten days,...
03 Mar Biggest-Ever DDoS Attack (1.35 Tbs) Hits Github Website
On Wednesday, February 28, 2018, GitHub's code hosting website hit with the largest-ever distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that peaked at record 1.35 Tbps. Interestingly, attackers did not use any...
19 Feb Millions Stolen From Russian, Indian Banks in SWIFT Attacks
A report published last week by Russia’s central bank on the types of attacks that hit financial institutions in 2017 revealed that an unnamed bank was the victim of a...
13 Feb PyeongChang Winter Olympics cyberattack revealed
Many foresaw the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea being a major cyberattack target, now officials have confirmed an attack that took the official website offline. It has been reported...
13 Feb Valentine’s Day Fuels Spike in Dating Spam, IBM Reports
Email inboxes around the world have been flooded with dating spam from the Necurs botnet, with over 230 million messages sent so far. 18 years after the I Love You virus...
13 Feb Thousands of Government Websites Hacked to Mine Cryptocurrencies
There was a time when hackers simply defaced websites to get attention, then they started hijacking them to spread banking trojan and ransomware, and now the trend has shifted towards...
22 Jan Nearly Half of the Norway Population Exposed in HealthCare Data Breach
Cybercriminals have stolen a massive trove of Norway's healthcare data in a recent data breach, which likely impacts more than half of the nation's population. An unknown hacker or group of...