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The privacy implications of email tracking
2017-10-05 13:50

Emails are a widely used means for third parties to tie your email address to your activities across the web, Princeton University researchers have discovered. The extent of email tracking Email...

Deloitte Hacked — Cyber Attack Exposes Clients' Secret Emails
2017-09-25 10:15

Another day, another data breach. This time one of the world's "big four" accountancy firms has fallen victim to a sophisticated cyber attack. Global tax and auditing firm Deloitte has confirmed...

Linux Trojan Using Hacked IoT Devices to Send Spam Emails
2017-09-22 09:14

Botnets, like Mirai, that are capable of infecting Linux-based internet-of-things (IoT) devices are constantly increasing and are mainly designed to conduct Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)...

European Companies Must Tell Employees If Their Work Emails Are Being Monitored (The Hackers News)
2017-09-05 09:39

Finally, European companies must inform employees in advance if their work email accounts are being monitored. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday gave a landmark judgement...

700 Million-Plus Email Addresses Leaked by Spam Operation (InfoRiskToday)
2017-08-31 13:33

Passwords for Accounts Included With Some AddressesA sloppy spamming operation has exposed on a server in the Netherlands a batch of files that includes more than 700 million email addresses and...

Massive Email Campaign Sends Locky Ransomware to Over 23 Million Users (The Hackers News)
2017-08-31 08:59

Whenever we feel like the Locky ransomware is dead, the notorious threat returns with a bang. Recently, researchers from two security firms have independently spotted two mass email campaigns,...

Spambot Contains ‘Mind-Boggling’ Amount of Email, SMTP Credentials (Threatpost)
2017-08-30 16:10

Researchers accessed the Onliner spambot and found 711 million records, including email addresses, email and password combinations, and SMTP credentials and configuration files.

Over 711 Million Email Addresses Exposed From SpamBot Server (The Hackers News)
2017-08-30 01:25

A massive database of 630 million email addresses used by a spambot to send large amounts of spam to has been published online in what appears to be one of the biggest data dumps of its kind. A...

New, custom ransomware delivered to orgs via extremely targeted emails (Help Net Security)
2017-08-28 16:32

Ransomware campaigns are usually wide-flung affairs: the attackers send out as many malicious emails as possible and hope to hit a substantial number of targets. But more targeted campaigns are...

Zerodium Offers $500,000 For Messaging, Email App Exploits (Security Week)
2017-08-24 11:07

Zerodium has made some changes to its exploit acquisition program and the company is now offering up to $500,000 for remote code execution and privilege escalation vulnerabilities affecting...