A database of your information is slowly being pieced together by malicious actors, “stored, repackaged and sold from one scammer to the next.” By offering up more information — even by simply answering the phone — that faux pas is “valuable to scammers who might try it again later” and “sell your number to the highest bidder,”
Category: Cyber Crime
London hospitals declare emergency following ransomware attack | Ars Technica
The outage has led hospitals, including Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College Hospital Trusts, to cancel operations and procedures involving blood transfusions. The cancellations include transplant surgeries, which require blood transfusions.
Russia Aims Cyber Operations at Summer Olympics
Two Russian state-aligned threat actors have been carrying out online influence operations designed to undermine the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris.
Multibillion Dollar Botnet Scam Traced Back to a Single Person
The illicit scheme was massively successful. According to the DOJ, 911 S5 raked in an eye-watering $99 million since its inception in 2014. Wan spent much of that income on luxury properties, cars, watches, and more.
Cybercriminals pose as “helpful” Stack Overflow users to push malware
This approach serves as a reminder of the constantly changing tactics of cybercriminals and, unfortunately, illustrates why you can never blindly trust what someone shares online.
Hackers phish finance orgs using trojanized Minesweeper clone
Hackers are utilizing code from a Python clone of Microsoft’s venerable Minesweeper game to hide malicious scripts in attacks on European and US financial organizations.
FCC Reveals ‘Royal Tiger’ Robocall Campaign
An example of a transcript of a call that Royal Tiger feeds its victims is as follows: “This is an important call regarding illegal enforcement action being executed under your name for suspicious and fraudulent activities carried out using your identity.
Hackers Can Abuse Apple’s Wi-Fi Positioning System
A recent study by security researchers has revealed a major privacy vulnerability in Apple’s Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) that allows hackers to track the locations of Wi-Fi access points and their owners globally.