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Iranian hackers target email accounts of WHO staff with spear-phishing messages amid coronavirus pandemic
The attacks began on 2nd March and are continuing
Cyber campaign installing cryptominers and RATs on Microsoft SQL servers uncovered by security researchers
Hackers are infecting nearly 3,000 MS-SQL servers on a daily basis
Marriott confirms data breach impacting up to 5.2 million people
The company has notified guests whose information was compromised in the incident
South Korean APT uses five zero-day flaws to turn the tables on North Korea
The group, linked to South Korea, used bugs in Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and the Windows Kernel to target North Koreans
Maze ransomware group claims to have encrypted Chubb cyber insurer's systems
Chubb rejects the ransomware pgroup's claim, however, saying its network is fully operational
Cyber security experts collaborate to block coronavirus-related cyber campaigns
The new group includes professionals from technology firms like Amazon and Microsoft
Tupperware accused of ignoring warnings over ecommerce website compromised by web-skimming JavaScript
Tupperware finally gets round to cleaning its ecommerce site days after being told that it had been compromised by a credit-card-stealing Magecart group
Surge in attacks from China-linked APT41 targeting unpatched Citrix servers and Cisco routers
APT41 attacks carried out between January and March targeted unsecured Citrix NetScaler servers and Cisco routers
Spanish hospitals targeted with coronavirus-themed phishing lures in Netwalker ransomware attacks
Groups behind Netwalker switched phishing baits to coronavirus last week - as other ransomware groups pledged to avoid medical facilities
Hackers tried to breach WHO systems amid coronavirus crisis
The attempt, however, was unsuccessful
Russia-linked APT28 is using stolen corporate email accounts to facilitate phishing attacks
Almost 40 per cent of the attacks launched by the group, also known as Pawn Storm, launched over the past year targeted defence companies
Magecart group targets NutriBullet website to steal customers' payment data details
The first attack was launched last month, and the compromise is still on-going
Eighty-five per cent of Microsoft Exchange Servers vulnerable to remote-code execution security flaw patched last month
Organisations warned to patch protect against CVE-2020-0688 as state-backed APTs start targeting vulnerable Exchange Servers
Turla threat group targets Armenian government websites in a new cyber campaign
The watering-hole attacks might be on-going for the past several months, the researchers warn
Hackers breached administrative IT systems of European power grid organisation
ENTSO-E's members include 42 electric transmission industry operators across 35 European countries
Redcar and Cleveland Council expelled public and press from council meeting discussing ransomware outbreak
Public and press thrown-out of resources committee meeting last week because ‘sensitive’ information about ransomware attack would be discussed
Ryuk ransomware attack forced industrial conglomerate EMCOR to shut down IT systems
The industrial giant claims that the Ryuk ransomware attack took place in mid-February
Boots blocks Advantage Card following cyber attack affecting 150,000 customer accounts
Boots claims it acted after identifying a credential-stuffing cyber attack
Tesco blocks 620,000 Clubcards after discovering a potential data breach
No computer system was hacked in the incident, according to the company
US accuses two Chinese nationals of helping North Korean hackers launder stolen cryptocurrency
Hackers stole nearly $250 million worth of cryptocurrency in this particular hack
Iranian threat groups intensify spear-phishing email operations in Middle East and Europe following Soleimani killing
Iran has not launched any cyber attack in retaliation for the killing of Soleimani - yet
Security flaw in PayPal's Google Pay integration enabled hackers to make unauthorised payments
PayPal has been accused of ignoring reports warning of security flaws on its popular payments platform
Pulse Secure: 2,500 VPN servers worldwide vulnerable to CVE-2019-11510 critical security flaw
UK plays host to 149 unpatched Pulse Secure VPN servers vulnerable to flaw favoured by Iranian state-backed hackers
Tel Aviv court orders Facebook to restore personal account of NSO Group employee
Facebook had blocked the account last year after suing NSO Group in a US court
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