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A significant EU financial regulator, the EU Banking Authority said that it suffered a cyberattack where its Microsoft email systems were hacked. The US company is putting the blame on a Chinese threat actor. Recently, Microsoft said that a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group was exploiting earlier unknown security vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s exchange email services to […]
Continue ReadingWe all have one or more personal mail boxes. I have plenty of them for different purposes (one for family, one for friends, one for official stuff, even temp ones or temp aliases for subscriptions to forums). We get tons of emails from friends, relatives, businesses, contractors, banks and so on. We store lot of […]
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Stortinget, the Norwegian Parliament succumbed to a cyber-attack that targeted its internal email system. The news came in on Tuesday when the Norwegian parliament’s director, Marianne Andreassen, affirmed that the threat actors had targeted the parliament. The hackers penetrated email accounts for elected representatives and employees, from where they stole various amounts of data. Andreassen […]
Continue ReadingSecurity researchers have tracked down activities of a new group of financially-motivated hackers that are targeting several businesses and organizations in Germany, Italy, and the United States in an attempt to infect them with backdoor, banking Trojan, or ransomware malware. Though the new malware campaigns are not customized for each organization, the threat actors appear […]
Continue ReadingAn ex-Yahoo! employee has pleaded guilty to misusing his access at the company to hack into the accounts of nearly 6,000 Yahoo users in search of private and personal records, primarily sexually explicit images and videos. According to an press note released by the U.S. Justice Department, Reyes Daniel Ruiz, a 34-year-old resident of California […]
Continue ReadingA critical security vulnerability has been discovered and fixed in the popular open-source Exim email server software, which could allow a remote attacker to simply crash or potentially execute malicious code on targeted servers. Exim maintainers today released an urgent security update—Exim version 4.92.3—after publishing an early warning two days ago, giving system administrators an […]
Continue ReadingThe official email account of the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) was recently hacked and data manipulated, allegedly by a private aerospace engineering company. The hackers breached into the TAN login and even changed a mobile number linked the certain account and unauthorised online corrections were made to manipulate tax returns of a private aerospace engineering […]
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According to authorities, Two con artists from New Jersey and their team hacked into several corporate accounts stealing almost $3 million which was meant for a Manhattan real state transaction on Thursday. The fraud took place after two foreigners gained access to the corporate email account of the investment company, they were keeping eye on […]
Continue ReadingGoogle & UC San Diego researchers found that only 5 of 27 hacker-for-hire services actually launched attacks against their targets. Source: Naked Security Sophos New feed Most hackers for hire are scammers, research shows
Continue ReadingA team of security researchers has discovered several vulnerabilities in various implementations of OpenPGP and S/MIME email signature verification that could allow attackers to spoof signatures on over a dozen of popular email clients. The affected email clients include Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook, Apple Mail with GPGTools, iOS Mail, GpgOL, KMail, Evolution, MailMate, Airmail, K-9 Mail, […]
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