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New Ransomware Masquerades As COVID-19 Contact-Tracing App On Your Android Device The malware surfaced just days after health officials in Canada announced the launch of a tracing app in the fight against COVID-19. A new strain of ransomware is being deployed in attacks created off the back of the release of contact-tracing apps during the
Twitter Says Some Business Users Had Their Private Data Exposed Flip the “days since the last Twitter security incident” back to zero. Twitter said Tuesday that it has emailed its business customers, such as those who advertise on the site, to warn that their information may have been compromised in a security lapse. The social network giant
Wells Fargo Phishing Baits Customers With Calendar Invites Wells Fargo customers are being targeted by a phishing campaign impersonating the Wells Fargo Security Team and luring potential victims to phishing pages with the help of calendar invites. Wells Fargo is a multinational financial services (banking, investment, and mortgage) provider with roughly 263,000 employees in 7,400
Hacker Arrested For Stealing, Selling PII Of 65k Hospital Employees 29-year-old Michigan man Justin Sean Johnson was arrested earlier this week for allegedly being behind the 2014 hack of the health care provider and insurer University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), stealing the PII and W-2 information of over 65,000 employees, and selling it on the dark web. Pittsburgh-based UPMC is