Tag: Extortion
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Financial Data for Multiple Companies Dumped Online in Failed Extortion Bid
Potentially sensitive financial data belonging to an unknown number of customers of Citycomp, a German provider of multi-vendor maintenance …
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Hackers Steal and Ransom Financial Data Related to Some of the World’s Largest Companies
Hackers have broken into an internet infrastructure firm that provides services to dozens of the world’s largest and most valuable …
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Extortion emails a go-go
Recent months seem to have seen a rise in extortion emails, designed to scare users into handing over their money. Last month, the folks at …
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BEC-style attacks exploded in Q4 2018
Email remains the top vector for malware distribution and phishing, while BEC fraud continues to grow rapidly, Proofpoint warns in its Q4 …
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Collection 1 data breach: what you need to know
Yesterday, news broke that the largest data dump in history had been discovered, with more than 770 million people’s Personally …
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The Dark Overlord Decrypts More 9/11 Insurance Files
On New Year’s Eve, Motherboard broke the news that a hacking group known as The Dark Overlord was threatening to release a cache of …
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CYBER Podcast: The Dark Overlord and the 9/11 Insurance Files Hack
A few hours before midnight on New Year’s Eve, the hacking group known as The Dark Overlord tweeted a link to a set of encrypted files: …
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Hackers Threaten to Dump Insurance Files Related to 9/11 Attacks
On Monday, New Year’s Eve, a hacker group announced it had breached a law firm handling cases related to the September 11 attacks, and …
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Extortion emails carrying bomb threats cause panic across the US
US law enforcement authorities are urging Americans to remain calm after a massive spam campaign carrying bomb threats has scared people …
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A week in security (October 22 – 28)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we took a look at some new Mac malware, gave you a roundup of 2018 exploit kits, and dispensed some …
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