There’s no honor among cyberthieves. It seems the prospect of accessing new hacking tools and other valuable assets is just too lucrative for some hackers to respect their counterparts-in-crime, since for the second time in a little more than a year, user data – that's hacker user data – from the Swarmshop card shop has been leaked online.
Chris Morales, CISO at Netenrich, said honor among thieves is "a Hollywood myth;" he added, "above and beyond the normal for-profit attack motive we most often focus on, ego is still very much a motive, too."
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Hackers targeting animal rescues, potential adopters with online scam
CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Animal rescuers are reporting that hackers are targeting them by taking control of their accounts and using them to scam potential adopters out of money.
Amy Goff runs Fred's Mission Rescue and Sanctuary , and she said her rescue has been impacted by the scam.
According to Goff, it started when she received a text message from someone who was pretending to be with Petfinder and was asking for information to access the rescue's account.
Former DHS Secretary Details SolarWinds Hackers' Access to His Email - Nextgov
Wolf spoke at an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation Monday on the wide-scale breaches that occurred as a result of hackers leveraging their access to the ubiquitous IT management company SolarWinds to distribute trojanized software updates to its customers, and other means. The hackers, which U.S. officials have said are likely of Russian origin, compromised a slew of private companies and nine federal agencies, including Homeland Security.
Wolf described the moment when he got the news from leadership in the department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Hackers use Google ranking skills for cyber attacks | wusa9.com
"This particular approach seems new or we may be just discovered it," Chris Rodgers, owner of Colorado SEO Pro said.
Rodgers said cybercriminals are using what is known as search engine optimizations (SEO) techniques to target people searching for content online. The process starts with hackers getting access to the backend of companies' websites.
Once the cybercriminals have access to the site's content management system, Rodgers explained attackers are using techniques to understand what people are searching for.
#HowTo: Stop Hackers Targeting Your Home - Infosecurity Magazine
The transition to remote work this year lowered the bar of sophistication for hackers like me. People with privileged access to corporate networks now sit at home—some on the open internet—sending and receiving valuable corporate data.
In March, 42% of the US workforce switched to working from home and as much as 88 % of CXOs and VPs said they felt ready for that shift at the start of the pandemic. Two months in, they learned that they were not.
Parents were at the end of their chain — then ransomware hit
Like most parents, Sanders has been performing a daily juggling act. When she's not teaching special education classes at Buffalo Public Schools, she and her husband are usually making sure their three kids are attending their remote classes.
So it hit hard when hackers struck the school of her youngest daughter in early March, the Friday before she was supposed to finally return to in-person learning twice a week.
"It's very frustrating. You think, how could this happen? You wonder if your information is secure," Sanders said. "It's just the headache of Covid as it is, and it's adding to the stress of the school year. Like what else could happen?"
Scam could let hackers lock you out of WhatsApp | TechRadar
A recently discovered WhatsApp scam could result in you being locked out of your account permanently.
For so many of us, WhatsApp has become an integral part of keeping in touch with friends, family, colleagues and more. Being unable to access it would have serious ramifications – and a newly discovered scam could do just that.
With access to just your phone number, a hacker can orchestrate an attack that could result in your account being deactivated. What's more, it doesn't matter if you have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled or not.
Capcom ransomware attack: Hackers gained access via vulnerable VPN, report finds | The Daily Swig
An investigation into a ransomware attack on Japanese video game developer Capcom has determined that malicious hackers gained access via an outdated virtual private network (VPN).
An investigation conducted by an independent third party has since determined that the unknown actors gained access to networks in both the US and Japan by exploiting the VPN service, which Capcom said was still in use due to Covid-19 "burdens".
The post-mortem report, released today (April 13), stated that the VPN was used by staff from the developer's North American subsidiary, Capcom USA, Inc.
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Tata Communications denies data leak claimed by hackers: Here is what we know so far (reports @LekhakAnurag) https://t.co/ZrerwmC06F OpIndia_com (from New Delhi) Tue Apr 13 15:45:00 +0000 2021
Clubhouse's doors got swung open by hackers. https://t.co/Bj5ZBiXCvo mashable Sun Apr 11 18:21:44 +0000 2021
Facebook did not inform over 530M users that their personal information was exposed to hackers in a 2019 data leak.… https://t.co/5lIsyBdqp8 ajplus Wed Apr 07 22:31:00 +0000 2021
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