Like other antivirus programs, Microsoft Defender will upload suspicious files to Microsoft to determine if they are malicious. However, some consider this a privacy risk and would rather have their files stay on their computer than being uploaded to a third party. [...]
Ransomware gangs continue to target organizations large and small, including a brazen attack on the Washington DC police department. [...]
The account information for almost 22 million ParkMobile customers is now in the hands of hackers and scammers after the data was released for free on a hacking forum. [...]
Brazil's Tribunal de Justiça do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul was hit with an REvil ransomware attack yesterday that encrypted employee's files and forced the courts to shut down their network. [...]
The Whistler municipality in British Columbia, Canada, has suffered a cyberattack at the hands of a new ransomware operation. [...]
Cloud hosting provider DigitalOcean has disclosed a data breach after a flaw exposed customers' billing information. [...]
Popular hacking forum OGUsers has been hacked for its fourth time in two years, with hackers now selling the site's database containing user records and private messages. [...]
Cybercriminals target Rogers customers with a new SMS phishing campaign pretending to be refunds for last week's Canada-wide wireless outage. [...]
UK rail network Merseyrail has confirmed a cyberattack after a ransomware gang used their email system to email employees and journalists about the attack. [...]
Manga scanlation site MangaDex disclosed a data breach last week after learning that the site's user database was privately circulating among threat actors. [...]
The Metropolitan Police Department has confirmed that they suffered a cyberattack after the Babuk ransomware gang leaked screenshots of stolen data. [...]
Popular musical instrument marketplace Reverb has suffered a data breach after an unsecured database containing customer information was exposed online. [...]
The REvil ransomware gang has mysteriously removed Apple's schematics from their data leak site after privately warning Quanta that they would leak drawings for the new iPad and new Apple logos. [...]
A threat actor has leaked approximately 20 million BigBasket user records containing personal information and hashed passwords on a popular hacking forum. [...]
A ransomware gang has made $260,000 in just five days simply by remotely encrypting files on QNAP devices using the 7zip archive program. [...]
Cybercriminals have created a fake Microsoft DirectX 12 download page to distribute malware that steals your cryptocurrency wallets and passwords. [...]
This week has been brutal, not because of many ransomware variants released but due to a single ransomware campaign that affected thousands of people. [...]
Twitter caused quite the panic Thursday night when they accidentally sent emails asking users to confirm their accounts, which looked suspiciously like a phishing attack. [...]
A massive ransomware campaign targeting QNAP devices worldwide is underway, and users are finding their files now stored in password-protected 7zip archives. [...]
The login names and passwords for 1.3 million current and historically compromised Windows Remote Desktop servers have been leaked by UAS, the largest hacker marketplace for stolen RDP credentials. [...]
Eversource, the largest power supplier in New England, has suffered a data breach after customers' personal information was exposed on an unsecured cloud server. [...]
Attackers are promoting sites impersonating the Microsoft Store, Spotify, and an online document converter that distribute malware to steal credit cards and passwords saved in web browsers. [...]
Car insurance provider Geico has suffered a data breach where threat actors stole the driver's licenses for policyholders for over a month. [...]
Google Alerts continues to be a hotbed of scams and malware that threat actors are increasingly abusing to promote malicious websites. [...]
WordPress announced today that they are treating Google's new FLoC tracking technology as a security concern and may block it by default on WordPress sites. [...]