Security News

WordPress GDPR compliance plugin hacked
2018-11-13 12:48

There's no obvious executable payload in the attack but the attackers may be building a collection of websites and biding their time.

Irony meters explode as WordPress GDPR tool hacked, cell network hack shenanigans, crypto-backdoors, etc...
2018-11-10 08:08

Loads of bonus infosec news for your weekend Roundup This week we had broken promises in China, broken keys in Steam, and broken ..err, everything in Apache Struts.…

Pakistan: Banks Weren't Hacked, But Card Details Leaked
2018-11-07 11:33

Card Details From 22 Banks Appeared On Underground MarketPakistan says the nation's banks have not been hacked, but are taking defensive steps after nearly 20,000 payment card details appeared for...

FIFA, hacked again, is leaking like a sieve
2018-11-05 13:13

Football shockers started to flow on Friday, after journalists analyzed more than 70m exfiltrated documents, totaling 3.4 terabytes of data.

Australian Shipbuilder Hacked, Refuses to Pay Ransom
2018-11-02 12:48

Austal Says Material Is Neither Sensitive Nor ClassifiedAustralia's largest defense exporter says it hasn't responded to an extortion attempt after ship design schematics were stolen by a hacker....

That Saudi oil and gas plant that got hacked. You'll never guess who could... OK, it's Russia
2018-10-24 06:01

FireEye reckons it's fingered the operating behind nasty cyber-infection at industrial complex A malware infection at a Saudi petrochemical plant last year was likely the work of a Moscow-based...

30 Million Facebook Accounts Were Hacked: Check If You're One of Them
2018-10-13 10:33

Late last month Facebook announced its worst-ever security breach that allowed an unknown group of hackers to steal secret access tokens for millions of accounts by taking advantage of a flaw in...

New Pentagon Weapons Systems Easily Hacked: Report
2018-10-09 17:40

New US weapons systems being developed by the US Department of Defense can be easily be hacked by adversaries, a new government report said on Tuesday. read more

Apple and Amazon hacked by China? Here’s what to do (even if it’s not true)
2018-10-09 14:07

Are major US companies really under attack from Chinese "zombie microchips" - and what should we do, whether it's true or not?

BEC-as-a-Service: Hacked accounts available from $150
2018-10-05 06:10

Digital Shadows has announced the findings of new research revealing the diversity of methods used to infiltrate company emails. The FBI has estimated that scams resulting from business email...