FinalSite Ransomware Attack Shuts Down Thousands of School websites FinalSite, a leading school website services provider, has suffered a ransomware attack disrupting access to websites for thousands of schools worldwide. FinalSite is a software as a service (SaaS) provider that offers website design, hosting, and content management solutions for K-12 school districts Read more…
Night Sky is the Latest Ransomware Targeting Corporate Networks It’s a new year, and with it comes a new ransomware to keep an eye on called ‘Night Sky’ that targets corporate networks and steals data in double-extortion attacks. According to MalwareHunterteam, who first spotted the new ransomware, the Night Sky operation started Read more…
FlexBooker Discloses Data Breach, Over 3.7 million Accounts Impacted Accounts of more than three million users of the U.S.-based FlexBooker appointment scheduling service have been stolen in an attack before the holidays and are now being traded on hacker forums. The same intruders are offering databases claiming to be from Read more…
Microsoft: KB5008212 Windows Security Update Breaks Outlook Search Microsoft has acknowledged an issue triggered by a Windows 10, version 21H2 security update released during the December 2021 Patch Tuesday that leads to search issues in Outlook for Microsoft 365. “After you install update KB5008212, recent emails may not appear in search results,” Microsoft explained Read more…
US Arrests Suspect who Stole Unpublished Books in Phishing Attacks An Italian man allegedly involved in a multi-year scheme to fraudulently obtain hundreds of prepublication manuscripts was arrested on Wednesday at the John F. Kennedy International Airport, in New York. According to a Department of Justice press release, 29-year-old Fillippo Bernardini (who previously worked Read more…
US Online Pharmacy Ravkoo Links Data Breach to AWS Portal Incident Ravkoo, a US Internet-based pharmacy service, has disclosed a data breach after the company’s AWS hosted cloud prescription portal was involved in a security incident that may have led to personal and health information being accessed. “Ravkoo utilizes AWS Read more…
Swiss Army Bans All Chat Apps but Locally-developed Threema The Swiss army has banned foreign instant-messaging apps such as Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp and requires army members to use the locally-developed Threema messaging app instead. As Threema is a paid subscription communications service, the Swiss army promised to cover the annual Read more…
Google Docs Commenting Feature Exploited for Spear-phishing A new trend in phishing attacks emerged in December 2021, with threat actors abusing the commenting feature of Google Docs to send out emails that appear trustworthy. Google Docs is used by many employees working or collaborating remotely, so most recipients of these Read more…
France Hits Facebook and Google with $210 million in Fines France’s National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL), the country’s data privacy and protection body, has announced a 60 million euro ($68 million) sanction against Facebook and a 150 million euro ($170 million) penalty against Google. The fines are for Read more…
FBI Warns About Ongoing Google Voice Authentication Scams The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says Americans who share their phone number online are being targeted by Google Voice authentication scams. As the federal law enforcement agency explains, the fraudsters are targeting those who have posted their phone number as a form Read more…
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