Security News > 2019 > April

Businesses hit with 235% more cyberthreats this year
2019-04-25 12:47

Trojans and ransomware top the list of threats with corporate targets in Q1 2019, according to a Malwarebytes report.

Facebook Takes $3 Billion Hit, Anticipating FTC Fine
2019-04-25 12:33

Questions Loom About Whether Big Fines Will Prompt Privacy ReformFacebook has set aside $3 billion from its first quarter profit to pay for what is likely to be a record-breaking fine from the...

Blochainbandit stole $54 million of Ethereum by guessing weak keys
2019-04-25 11:57

Someone has been quietly pilfering Ethereum (ETH) cryptocurrency worth millions of dollars without anyone noticing or, apparently, caring.

Another European manufacturer crippled by ransomware
2019-04-25 11:56

Aebi Schmidt, a Switzerland-based manufacturer and provider of municipal and agriculture machinery, has apparently been hit by ransomware. What happened? “Due to an IT system failure, the Aebi...

Microsoft wants to kill Windows password expiration policy
2019-04-25 11:44

The proposal means that users at organizations with Group Policy would no longer be required to change their Windows passwords on a regular basis.

Atlanta Hawks fall prey to Magecart credit card skimming group
2019-04-25 11:32

The Atlanta Hawks basketball team is recovering after a sophisticated cybercrime group hacked its ecommerce site and planted credit card skimming code on it.

Fooling Automated Surveillance Cameras with Patchwork Color Printout
2019-04-25 11:31

Nice bit of adversarial machine learning. The image from this news article is most of what you need to know, but here's the research paper....

Teen sues Apple for $1 billion over Apple stores’ facial recognition
2019-04-25 11:15

He claims that Apple allegedly uses the technology to spot shoplifters and that it falsely linked him to a series of Apple store thefts.

It's your what in a box? Here's a thing to make your bosses think about malware responses
2019-04-25 11:05

You mean they already do? Pull the other one Cyber UK 2019 Ever-exciting Cabinet Office minister David Lidington has put his name to a new infosec response testing tool developed by the NCSC,...

Qualcomm chips leak crypto data from secure execution environment
2019-04-25 10:47

A vulnerability in Qualcomm chips could be exploited by attackers to retrieve encryption keys and sensitive information from the chipsets’ secure execution environment, NCC Group researchers have...