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800K WordPress Sites Still Impacted by Critical SEO Plugin Flaw Two critical and high severity security vulnerabilities in the highly popular “All in One” SEO WordPress plugin exposed over 3 million websites to takeover attacks. The security flaws discovered and reported by Automattic security researcher Marc Montpas are a critical Authenticated Privilege Escalation bug (CVE-2021-25036) and a
Threat Actors Steal $80 million per Month with Fake Giveaways, Surveys Scammers are estimated to have made $80 million per month by impersonating popular brands asking people to participate in fake surveys or giveaways. Researchers warn of this new trend in global fraud schemes involving targeted links to make investigation and take-down increasingly challenging. According
Russian Hackers Made Millions by Stealing SEC Earning Reports A Russian national working for a cybersecurity company has been extradited to the U.S. where he is being charged for hacking into computer networks of two U.S.-based filing agents used by multiple companies to file quarterly and annual earnings through the Securities and Exchange Commissions (SEC)
US Returns $154 Million in Bitcoins Stolen by Sony Employee The United States has taken legal action to seize and return over $154 million purportedly stolen from Sony Life Insurance Company Ltd, a SONY subsidiary, by an employee in a textbook business email compromise (BEC) attack. “According to the government’s complaint, Rei Ishii, an employee