Author: Bill Toulas

Security analysts from NCC Group report that ransomware attacks in November 2021 increased over the past month, with double-extortion continuing to be a powerful tool in threat actors’ arsenal. […] Source: leepingcomputer.com

A dark web marketplace named ‘2easy’ is becoming a significant player in the sale of stolen data “Logs” harvested from roughly 600,000 devices infected with information-stealing malware. […] Source: leepingcomputer.com

Scammers are estimated to have made $80 million per month by impersonating popular brands asking people to participate in fake surveys or giveaways. […] Source: leepingcomputer.com

Two widely used walk-through metal detectors made by Garrett are vulnerable to many remotely exploitable flaws that could severely impair their functionality, thus rendering security checkpoints deficient. […] Source: leepingcomputer.com

Threat actors are conducting a highly targeted phishing campaign impersonating Pfizer to steal business and financial information from victims. […] Source: leepingcomputer.com

A new malware named ‘DarkWatchman’ has emerged in the cybercrime underground, and it’s a lightweight and highly-capable JavaScript RAT (Remote Access Trojan) paired with a C# keylogger. […] Source: leepingcomputer.com

Four affiliated online sports gear sites have disclosed a cyberattack where threat actors stole credit cards for 1,813,224 customers. […] Source: leepingcomputer.com

Hellmann Worldwide is warning customers of an increase in fraudulent calls and emails regarding payment transfer and bank account changes after a recent ransomware attack. […] Source: leepingcomputer.com

Some threat actors exploiting the Apache Log4j vulnerability have switched from LDAP callback URLs to RMI or even used both in a single request for maximum chances of success. […] Source: leepingcomputer.com

British classifieds site Gumtree.com suffered a data leak after a security researcher revealed that he could access sensitive personally identifiable data of advertisers simply by pressing F12 on the keyboard. […] Source: leepingcomputer.com