Security News

Trump Campaign Website Left Open to Email Server Hijack
2019-10-17 15:03

A misconfigured website development tool exposed hundreds of email servers to takeover, including President Donald Trump’s official campaign website.

Remember the Democratic National Committee email leak? Same hackers now targeting EU countries, say malware boffins
2019-10-17 13:55

Researchers say they've cracked a Washington embassy and more The hacker crew behind the US Democratic National Committee breach are still at it and have infiltrated an EU country's embassy in...

Silent Librarian Retools Phishing Emails to Hook Student Credentials
2019-10-16 17:54

Silent Librarian cyberattackers are switching up tactics in a phishing scheme bent on stealing student credentials.

Phorpiex Botnet Sending Out Millions of Sextortion Emails Using Hacked Computers
2019-10-16 13:19

A decade-old botnet malware that currently controls over 450,000 computers worldwide has recently shifted its operations from infecting machines with ransomware or crypto miners to abusing them...

Twitter Uses Phone Numbers, Emails to Sell Ads
2019-10-09 11:25

Data collected for two-factor authentication purposes “inadvertently” matched users to targeted-advertising lists, the company admits.

BEC explodes as attackers exploit email’s identity crisis
2019-10-09 04:00

850,000 domains worldwide now have DMARC records, a 5x increase since 2016, according to Valimail. However, less than 17% of global DMARC records are at enforcement — meaning fake emails that...

Email Attacks Using Cloud Services are Increasing
2019-10-08 19:18

An analysis of more than 2.2 billion emails between April and June (Q2) 2019 exposes the current tactics, techniques and targets of contemporary attackers.  read more

Iran tried to hack hundreds of politicians, journalists email accounts last month, warns Microsoft
2019-10-04 18:33

No confirmation from Trump yet whether he asked them to do it The Iranian government has attempted to hack into hundreds of Office 365 email accounts belonging to politicians, government officials...

TalkTalk says WalkWalk if you've got a mouldy Tiscali email address, or pay £50 a year to keep it
2019-10-04 12:14

UK ISP gives legacy ex-customers an ultimatum TalkTalk will start charging £50 a year for its legacy email accounts unless you sign up as a broadband customer of the breach-scarred telco. And if...

'Vendor Email Compromise': A New Attack Twist
2019-10-02 21:18

Agari Researchers Describe a New Flavor of Business Email Compromise ScamsA newly discovered cybercriminal gang is putting a twist on business email compromise scams by initially targeting vendors...