A massive fraud let scammers steal money from Amazon merchants for a six-month period in 2018, the online retailer revealed. Almost a 100 accounts of merchants who sell their products via Amazon were affected, a report from Bloomberg said. The report added that the scammers changed bank details on AmazonRead More…
A VPN software named ”Pirate Chick” is being installed by Adware bundles, which connects to a remote server to download and install malicious payloads such the AZORult password-stealing Trojan. Since adware bundles need to look as legitimate as possible, they require offers that they promote to have legitimate web sites with privacyRead More…
Officials at Qihoo 360, a leading Chinese cybersecurity firm, have revealed an ongoing credit card scam that steals the card payment information of thousands of customers visiting leading e-commerce websites. Researchers discovered that attackers have been injecting malicious JS scripts hosted on a malicious domain, www.magento-analytics [.] com, onto onlineRead More…
Cybersecurity experts and researchers have identified a significant rise in breaches and attacks related to the internet of things, a report titled ‘The Third Annual Study on Third Party IoT risk: Companies Don’t Know What They Don’t Know” by Ponemon Institute, said. The study, released by Santa Fe Group, reportedRead More…
A French online shop named “Kook King Shop”, which sells Burger King products focused on kids, was maintaining an unprotected database that includes sensitive information of thousand of customers. According to reports, the unprotected cluster contained all of the exposed information in a plain-text form, so there was no encryptionRead More…
A National Cyber Security Centre (UK) report states that the most common password is “123456” and that it has been found 23 million times in cybersecurity breach databases. This underscores the importance of not reusing a password, and mixing and matching numbers, letters and characters when choosing one. The topRead More…
By Alain Penel, Regional Vice President – Middle East, Fortinet. Operational technology (OT) refers to the hardware and software used to run industrial control systems (ICS), such as SCADA, that serve as the foundation of various areas of critical infrastructure. This includes industries that are essential to public safety and well-being, includingRead More…
Avengers fans, beware! Scammers are are promising full movie downloads of the Marvel Blockbuster, in a new kind of phishing attack.Read More…
