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Telecommunications giant Verizon has confirmed that its internal systems were compromised by a hacker who stole employee information. The hacker claims to have accessed the Verizon database by posing as IT support and persuading an employee to provide remote access to their computer.
More than 23 million files, totaling 6.5 GB of data, were left unprotected when Turkish airline Pegasus failed to properly configure its cloud storage infrastructure. A misconfigured bucket on AWS exposed information that was stored in its aircraft navigation software.
The personal details of around 3.6 million customers of South African pharmacy retailer Dis-Chem were exposed after hackers gained access to its database.
The personal details of over 200,000 injured workers in Australia were also exposed after Australian state insurance company icare mistakenly sent spreadsheet attachments to the wrong email addresses.
The India-based GoodWill ransomware group is encrypting data and demanding its victims perform charitable deeds before allowing them to download a decryption tool. Demands include donating blankets to the homeless and feeding hungry children.
The growth of China’s digital economy is totally dependent on implementing competent cyber security and combating cyber-attacks, says the country’s top regulator, the Cyber security Administration at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
In 2021, there were 3.5 million vacancies for qualified cyber security professionals globally – an increase of 350% compared to eight years earlier.
Credit card details of online shoppers in the US were stolen by cyber criminals who injected malicious PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) code into an online checkout page. The FBI warns that the attackers spoofed a credit card processing server.
The FBI has warned that security credentials such as privileged network access and user accounts from US universities and colleges have been advertised for sale on criminal marketplaces and publicly accessible forums.
Multiple US government agencies have issued warnings about an organization known as the Karakurt data extortion group, which targets businesses and individuals with ransomware attacks and demands payment in cryptocurrency.
Phishing emails have been a nuisance for more than 20 years – scammers send emails that seem like they are from a reputable organization in the hope that the victim will click on an embedded link that will either compromise their system with malware, or take them to a fake website where they will be asked to enter confidential information such as passwords or credit card details.
Here are four examples of recent phishing attacks where cyber criminals have developed ever more ruthless and sophisticated techniques in an attempt to avoid detection by both humans and security software:
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