‘Cybercrime is still a major problem in the Netherlands’.
Despite all the campaigns, many Dutch people are still affected by cybercrime, according to a recent study by security specialist Norton LifeLock, a subsidiary of Symantec. More than half of them are also concerned about their privacy and data breaches. What is striking is that data is still easily ... Read more
Passwords hundreds of Dutch companies for sale on dark web.
The passwords of over 900 Dutch companies are offered for sale on the dark web for amounts between 4 and 15 dollars. RTL News reports that on the basis of its own research. The passwords can be found on a Russian website on the dark web, which sells a total of 64,000 international login details.
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Large-scale DNS hack focuses on companies worldwide
A new hack campaign has been discovered that uses various techniques to manipulate the DNS records of several organisations worldwide. FireEye researchers are writing about the campaign. The records of governments, telecom companies and internet infrastructure organizations are being hacked.
The cam... Read more
Vulnerability in SQLite impacts thousands of apps
A vulnerability in the popular SQLite database engine puts thousands of desktop and mobile apps at risk. The error, discovered by Tencent's Blade security team, allows an attacker to run rogue code on a victim's computer. That's what ZDNet reports.
It is also possible to leak program memory with th... Read more
Czech Republic accuses Russia of several attacks on government networks
The Czech Republic accuses Russia of invading their government networks, reports ZDNet. The country's intelligence service, BIS, states in an annual report that two espionage groups linked to Russia entered the networks.
These are the groups Turla and APT28, also known as Fancy Bear. The groups are ... Read more
50,000 printers hacked to help PewDiePie vlogger to subscribers
The Swedish vlogger PewDiePie and record label T-Series from India compete for the crown on YouTube: who has the most subscribers? To help the Swedish vlogger, someone has hacked 50,000 printers worldwide to ask people to subscribe to his channel, reports The Next Web.
The war for subscribers betwee... Read more
Emotet malware includes unique infrastructure to prevent down-time
According to security company Trend Micro, Emotet's malware corridor deliberately designed the backbone infrastructure of its server in two separate clusters.
Researchers analyzed 571 samples of the group's malware. It allowed them to extract the IP addresses of 721 Emotet command-and-control (C&... Read more
SophosLabs: ‘Cyber attacks will be much more targeted in 2019’.
According to SophosLabs, cyber attacks are becoming increasingly targeted and cybercriminals are stalking victims in order to make millions. The company states this in its Threat Report 2019, which examined the threat landscape of the past twelve months. The report also shows how trends are expected... Read more
State hackers attack Adobe ColdFusion servers without a patch
A group of state hackers, also called an APT Group, actively attacks Adobe ColdFusion servers. In addition, it provides backdoors for future attacks, according to Volexity investigators versus ZDNet.
The attacks have been taking place since the end of September and focus on ColdFusion servers that d... Read more
Gemalto: ‘Worldwide, 17,460 records are stolen per minute’.
Worldwide, 4.5 billion records were affected by 945 data breaches in the first half of 2018. This is shown by the new Breach Level Index of security company Gemalto. The number of lost, stolen or degraded records increased by 133 percent compared to the same period in 2017. The number of total infri... Read more