Incidents

News Corp, one of the world’s media agencies, has confirmed that its systems were compromised by what they defined as a “persistent cyberattack“ detected in mid-January and that would have resulted in unauthorized access to confidential emails and documents. Among the main brands associated with News Corp are Fox News, New York Post and The […]

In recent weeks, several cyber security researchers have reported massive flaws in the Internet infrastructure in North Korea, affecting the few users who have free access to the online world within the territory where Dictator Kim Jong-un rules with an iron fist. Although early hypotheses suggested that these flaws could have been caused by a […]

Through its Internet Crime Center (IC3), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reports that cybercriminal groups are exploiting some errors in the verification mechanisms in a professional and job platform to publish malicious ads that would allow data theft and other variants of electronic fraud and extortion. The main goal of this fraud variant is […]

In one unusual incident, screens in the Israeli Postal Company’s collection and distribution areas were synchronized to play a video showing only the phrase “DOWN WITH ISRAEL”, in what appears to be a cyberattack orchestrated by some group opposed to Israel’s government. Some users of the email system posted on social networks a video that […]

A couple of weeks ago, a German court imposed a fine of 100 Euros on a website after determining that its administrators violated one of the provisions of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The authorities discovered that the website included a font hosted on Google Fonts, so it was possible to pass […]

In recent days, cryptocurrency platform Qubit Finance confirmed that its systems were compromised by a group of unidentified threat actors. The platform, specializing in decentralized lending, has even appealed to the goodwill of thieves, in a desperate move to recover lost assets. Last Friday, the company acknowledged that one of its protocols had been unintentionally […]

This Thursday night, multiple Iranian state TV channels broadcasted footage showing the leaders of an exiled dissident group and explicitly calling for the death of the country’s supreme leader, an incident that local authorities described as a cyberattack. For quite a few seconds these images flashed on the screens, interrupting the broadcast to show the […]

Full Internet services at Andorra suffered several massive cyberattacks since last Friday, with the last one still ongoing. The different hacks, confirmed by the Andorra Telecom company, would have gone unnoticed if it were not for an online tournament in which Twitch streamers from South America, Spain and other countries were involved at. Some of […]

The world’s leading tech companies continue to run into compliance with the European Union strict General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) even after 4 years since its entry into force. This week, privacy advocates in Austria advanced legal proceedings against websites that use Google Analytics, the most widely used set of computer tools for tracking the […]

A few days ago the servers that host the information of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were the target of a cyberattack that compromised the confidential information of more than 500,000 people in vulnerable conditions, including migrants, victims of natural disasters, relatives of missing persons and prisoners around the world, impacting at […]

With the advent of non-fungible tokens (NFT) art theft became a trivial task for hackers, since it is enough to deploy a phishing campaign to deceive enthusiasts of these virtual assets, making huge profits using only malicious emails. Such seems to be the case affecting Todd Kramer, a renowned gallerist and art curator specializing in […]

Russian authorities claim to have shut down the operations of the REvil ransomware group, after the U.S. government sent them a detailed report on their alleged leader. Russia arrested a total of 12 members of the cybercriminal group, after deploying a total of 25 raids in different locations. In addition to the arrests, authorities managed […]

Authorities in Ukraine announced the arrest of a hacking group responsible for attacking some 50 organizations in the United States and Europe with a ransomware variant, generating losses of more than $1 million USD. According to the report, a 36-year-old Ukrainian citizen acted as the leader of the group, acting along with his wife and […]

The government of Houston, Texas, warns its citizens about a new variant of fraud in which threat actors place fraudulent QR codes on the parking meters of some streets in order to take users to fraudulent websites where their confidential information could be stolen. 🚨Scam Alert🚨APD Financial Crimes detectives are investigating after fraudulent QR code […]

In an unusual incident, Kim Kardashian and other celebrities have been sued by investors of a cryptocurrency known as EthereumMax. Among the defendants also stand out celebrities such as former basketball player Paul Pierce and former boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr, in addition to the creators of the cryptocurrency. The lawsuit alleges that EthereumMax is actually […]

A recent report notes that Lympo, a platform for minting sports-related non-fungible tokens (NFT), has suffered a security breach in the hot wallets of various projects, which would have generated losses of more than $18 million USD in LMT tokens. Through a brief update, the subsidiary project of Animoca Brands mentions that hackers managed to […]

Operators of the RagnarLocker ransomware claim to have successfully compromised the systems of telecom analytics firm Subex, including its cybersecurity subsidiary Sectrio. On its dark web platform for information leaks, the group posted an .onion link that supposedly redirects users to compromised information. According to the report, the hackers managed to access multiple information systems, […]

In its latest alert, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) mentions that the financially motivated cybercriminal group known as FIN7 has been attacking the U.S. defense industry, sending malicious USB devices with the LilyGO logo to some employees; these devices are loaded with a powerful ransomware variant. The cybercriminals reportedly used the U.S. Postal Service […]

The technology firm SonicWall confirmed that some of its firewall and email security solutions are being affected by the Y2K22 flaw, which since January 1, 2022 has generated errors in millions of implementations. As a result, users have not been able to access their inboxes or unwanted emails. Similar to the dreaded Y2K errors, this […]

At the end of 2021, the Non-Fungible Token (NFT) projects Monkey Kingdom and Fractal were targeted by the same hacking variant, in which electronic fraud was made possible by the abuse of Discord servers associated with these projects. According to the report published by The Verge, in the official channels of these projects suddenly appeared […]

The French authority on information security determined to impose a €60 million penalty against Facebook and a €150 million penalty against Google after concluding that both companies hide from users the possibility of rejecting tracking cookies, so users must make endless clicks for this purpose. In their resolution, the authorities point out that both companies […]