FBI Investigating Michigan School District Hack
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Michigan State Police are investigating a cyber-attack on a Michigan school district. District …
Hacks
SolarWinds Hack Reveals 3 Overlooked Steps to Securing a Software Supply Chain
Since the news first broke that SolarWinds’ Orion software had been compromised on customer installations, we’ve learned that the …
Steris Touted as Latest Accellion Hack Victim
Data belonging to a client of recently hacked California-based private cloud solutions company Accellion is being advertised for sale …
Malicious Mozilla Firefox Extension Allows Gmail Takeover
A newly uncovered cyberattack is taking control of victims’ Gmail accounts, by using a customized, malicious Mozilla Firefox browser …
CrowdStrike Slams Microsoft Over SolarWinds Hack
The United States Senate’s select committee on intelligence met yesterday to hear evidence from tech executives regarding the historic hack …
Microsoft Lures Populate Half of Credential-Swiping Phishing Emails
Almost half of phishing attacks in 2020 aimed to swipe credentials using Microsoft-related lures – from the Office 365 enterprise …
Daycare Webcam Service Exposes 12,000 User Accounts
NurseryCam, a webcam service used across 40 daycare centers in the U.K. by parents who want to keep a watchful eye on their babies, has …
TDoS Attacks Take Aim at Emergency First-Responder Services
The FBI has warned that telephony denial-of-service attacks are taking aim at emergency dispatch centers, which could make it impossible to …
Former Employee Behind Earthquakes Stadium Hack
A vengeful former staff member of a San Jose sports stadium concessionaire has admitted carrying out a costly cyber-attack against his …
Accellion FTA Zero-Day Attacks Show Ties to Clop Ransomware, FIN11
Researchers have identified a set of threat actors (dubbed UNC2546 and UNC2582) with connections to the FIN11 and the Clop ransomware gang …
Apple Is Going to Make It Harder to Hack iPhones With Zero-Click Attacks
The company quietly made a new change in the way it secures the code running in its mobile operating system. The change is in the beta …
Suspected Russian Hack Fuels New US Action on Cybersecurity
The reaction reflects the severity of a hack that was disclosed only in December. The hackers, as yet unidentified but described by …