Cyber Security
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Royal Yacht Association Databreach
On 17 Jan 2020, the Royal Yachting Association (RYA) announced that “an unauthorised party” stole the data from a membership database. The data breach involved theft of RYA members’ personal […]
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WhatsApp Phishing URLs Skyrocket With Over 13,000% Surge
February 20: The number of WhatsApp phishing URLs has skyrocketed in Q4 2019 after a 13,467.6% huge QoQ surge in the number of unique phishing URLs targeting its users being […]
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CISA Reports Spearphishing Attack Leading to Ransomware Impacting Pipeline Operations
February 18: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) encourages asset owner operators across all critical infrastructure sectors to review the below threat actor techniques and ensure the corresponding mitigations […]
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Israeli Military Claim Hamas Hackers Tried to Seduce Soldiers Via Social Media To Spread Malware
February 16: The Israeli military on Sunday said it has thwarted an attempt by the Hamas militant group to hack soldiers’ phones by posing as young, attractive women on social […]
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US Emphasizes Concern Over Electronic Interference
February 14: Donald Trump has this week directed the Department of Homeland Security, the Pentagon, and the Commerce Department to minimise the amount of US systems dependent on GPS for […]
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Emotet Trojan Evolves To Spread Via WiFi Connections
Source: ZDNet / Catalin Cimpanu February 11: Without a doubt, the Emotet trojan is today’s top malware threat, in both terms of quantity (due to its huge spam campaigns) and […]
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FTC Warns of Ongoing Scams Using Coronavirus Bait
Source: Bleeping Computer / Sergiu Gatlan February 11: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warns about ongoing scam campaigns that make use of the current Coronavirus global scale health crisis […]
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Mac Malware Increasing Rapidly
Source: ZDNet / Danny Palmer February 11: […] Researchers at cybersecurity company Malwarebytes analysed a year of data on cyber attacks targeting its customers and found that malware attacks and other malicious […]
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FBI is Investigating More Than 1,000 Cases of Chinese Theft of US Technology
Full Text / Source: ZDNet / Catalin Cimpanu February 09: Members of the US government held a conference in Washington this week on the topic of Chinese theft of intellectual […]
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People Not As Good At Spotting Phishing As They Think They Are
Source: ZDNet / Tom Foremski January 30: Most people say they know about phishing and what it involves, yet just 5% were able to correctly identify all types of scams […]
