Hacker sells access to hundreds of corporate executives’ email accounts

Posted on 29/11/2020 by Engadget

Hackers are fond of hijacking email accounts, and one of them may have obtained a motherlode of potential targets. ZDNet and Gizmodo report that a hacker is selling claimed access to “hundreds” of C-suite executives’ Microsoft-based email accounts, i...

FBI, Homeland Security detail how Iranian hackers stole US voter data

Posted on 31/10/2020 by Engadget

US officials are shedding more light on how Iran-linked hackers stole voter info to send intimidating emails to Democrat voters. The FBI and Homeland Security’s CISA have issued an advisory (via Bleeping Computer) explaining the campaign, which ran f...

Chinese hackers impersonated McAfee to attack election campaign staffers

Posted on 17/10/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Google warned in June that state-sponsored hackers were targeting 2020 US election campaigns, and now it’s outlining some of the methods those perpetrators used. APT31, a group linked to China, impersonated McAfee (the antivirus software, not its ind...

Ransomware attack on a healthcare firm slowed clinical trials

Posted on 04/10/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Cyberattacks on the healthcare industry are causing more headaches. The New York Times reports that clinical trials slowed down after healthcare software provider eResearchTechnology suffered ransomware attacks starting two weeks ago. IQVIA (a resear...

Russian state hackers appear to have breached a federal agency

Posted on 03/10/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Russia’s 2020 hacking campaigns might have included a successful data breach at the US government. In the wake of a CISA notice warning of a cyberattack on an unnamed federal agency’s network, Wired and security company Dragos have obtained evidence...

Hackers defaced dozens of Reddit communities with pro-Trump messages

Posted on 08/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

If your favorite Reddit community looked like a political billboard on August 7th, you can blame it on hackers. Both Motherboard and ZDNet report that hackers defaced dozens of subreddits with pro-Trump messages, including major subreddits like r/foo...

Malware writer pleads guilty to helping $568 million cybercrime ring

Posted on 02/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Another key member of the massive Infraud cybercrime ring is likely heading to prison. Software writer Valerian Chiochiu has pleaded guilty to RICO conspiracy for helping Infraud Organization develop and use FastPOS malware that helped the group stea...

Twitter confirms one elected official had DMs accessed in hack

Posted on 23/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Twitter has finally confirmed what many have suspected: that the hackers behind the crypto scam that targeted dozens of high-profile accounts did indeed gain access to at least some of their victims’ inboxes. “We believe that for up to 36 of the 130...

After Math: Twitter’s very bad breach

Posted on 19/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

We’ve got a mixed bag of headlines for you this week, what with everything happening at the same time these days. Let’s take a look at Twitter’s worst Wednesday in living memory, as well as some stellar game sale numbers amid the COVID-19 shutdown an...

Twitter’s Bitcoin hackers had almost limitless access

Posted on 17/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

On Wednesday, July 15, Twitter was the target of a very public hack attack that’s still sending shockwaves across the internet. In what is a major security breach for the company, a handful of the most-followed Twitter accounts belonging to some of t...

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