Friday, August 2, 2024

BleepingComputer.com

"Twilio kills off Authy for desktop, forcibly logs out all users."

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Twilio kills off Authy for desktop, forcibly logs out all users

  • Twilio has finally killed off its Authy for Desktop application, forcibly logging users out of the desktop application.

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Tech support scam ring leader gets 7 years in prison, $6M fine

  • The leader of a tech support fraud scheme was sentenced to seven years in prison after tricking at least 6,500 victims and generating more than $6 million.

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StackExchange abused to spread malicious PyPi packages as answers

  • Threat actors uploaded malicious Python packages to the PyPI repository and promoted them through the StackExchange online question and answer platform.

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Hackers abuse free TryCloudflare to deliver remote access malware

  • Researchers are warning of threat actors increasingly abusing the Cloudflare Tunnel service in malware campaigns that usually deliver remote access trojans (RATs).

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UK takes down major 'Russian Coms' caller ID spoofing platform

  • The United Kingdom's National Crime Agency (NCA) has shut down Russian Coms, a major caller ID spoofing platform used by hundreds of criminals to make over 1.8 million scam calls.

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Sitting Ducks DNS attacks let hackers hijack over 35,000 domains

  • Threat actors have hijacked more than 35,000 registered domains in so-called Sitting Ducks attacks that allow claiming a domain without having access to the owner's account at the DNS provider or registrar.

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Cencora confirms patient health info stolen in February attack

  • Pharmaceutical giant Cencora has confirmed that patients' protected health information and personally identifiable information (PII) was exposed in a February cyberattack.

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FBI warns of scammers posing as crypto exchange employees

  • The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns of scammers posing as employees of cryptocurrency exchanges to steal funds from unsuspecting victims.

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Credit card users get mysterious shopify-charge.com charges

  • People worldwide report seeing mysterious $1 or $0 charges from Shopify-charge.com appearing on their credit card bills, even when they did not attempt to purchase anything.

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DigiCert to delay cert revocations for critical infrastructure

  • DigiCert urges critical infrastructure operators to request a delay if they cannot reissue their certificates, as required by an ongoing certificate mass-revocation process announced on Tuesday.

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OneBlood's virtual machines encrypted in ransomware attack

  • OneBlood, a large not-for-profit blood center that serves hospitals and patients in the United States, is dealing with an IT systems outage caused by a ransomware attack.

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CISA and FBI: DDoS attacks won’t impact US election integrity

  • ​CISA and the FBI said today that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks targeting election infrastructure will, at most, hinder public access to information but will have no impact on the integrity or security of the 2024 U.S. general election processes.

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Google ads push fake Google Authenticator site installing malware

  • Google has fallen victim to its own ad platform, allowing threat actors to create fake Google Authenticator ads that push the DeerStealer information-stealing malware.

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World leading silver producer Fresnillo discloses cyberattack

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New Android malware wipes your device after draining bank accounts

  • A new Android malware that researchers call 'BingoMod' can wipe devices after successfully stealing money from the victims' bank accounts using the on-device fraud technique.

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Fraud ring pushes 600+ fake web shops via Facebook ads

  • A malicious fraud campaign dubbed "ERIAKOS" promotes more than 600 fake web shops through Facebook advertisements to steal visitors' personal and financial information.

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Thursday, August 1, 2024

PCMag Security Watch

"Shareholders sue CrowdStrike after outage prompts stock price to plummet."

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TODAY'S FEATURED STORY
Shareholders Sue CrowdStrike After Outage Prompts Stock Price to Plummet
Shareholders Sue CrowdStrike After Outage Prompts Stock Price to Plummet

A group of shareholders file a securities class-action lawsuit noting that CrowdStrike had hyped its cybersecurity tech as vetted and leading-edge before last Friday's massive outage.

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THE LATEST
Microsoft: Azure Outage Due to DDoS Attack

Although Microsoft attempted to thwart the DDoS attack, an error in the company's defenses accidentally 'amplified the impact.'

'Fortune 50' Company Made Record-Breaking $75M Ransomware Payment

The payment was sent to a lesser known ransomware group called Dark Angels, according to cybersecurity vendor Zscaler, topping the $40 million paid by CNA in 2021.

Microsoft Spots Ransomware Groups Abusing Zero-Day Flaw

The flaw affects VMware's ESXi hypervisor product, enabling high-profile ransomware gangs to steal data from virtual machines and encrypt them.

These Are the Services Seeing the Biggest Uptick in Passkey Adoption

Password manager Dashlane reports that more than one in five of its active users has at least one passkey saved, with Amazon seeing the biggest authentication spike in the last three months.

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How to Tell if Your Phone Is Being Tapped (and What to Do About It)

Haver you been infected by spyware? Occasional wonkiness on your phone is to be expected, but these glitches can be a sign of something more nefarious. Here's what to look out for.

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