Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 21

Discover Hacks/Cracks News

One in Three HCOs Hit by Cyber-Attack

data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20100%20100%22%3E%3C/svg%3E

More than one in three healthcare providers have suffered a cyber-attack over the past year, with 10% paying a ransom or other extortion-related fee, according to Imperva.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 27, 2018

Report: Hacker group behind Trisis Malware expanding Activity in Middle East

The nation-backed hacker group behind the TRITON/TRISIS malware attack is increasing its nefarious activity, putting critical infrastructure systems in danger of future cyber attacks, according to Dragos Security.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 25, 2018

Ransomware Most Commonly Used Malicious Software: How to Protect Your Business

According to Verizon’s latest annual Data Breach Investigations Report, ransomware continues to be one of the biggest issues in the world of hacking. In fact, according to the report, ransomware is the most used type of malicious software, and so far has been the cause of 39 percent of malware-related data breaches in 2018, which is more than double that of last year.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 23, 2018

Man faces up to 35 years in prison for helping hackers evade detection by anti-virus software

Scan4You, the largest known counter anti-virus website, went offline in May 2017 when two men were arrested in Latvia and extradited by the FBI to the United States.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 22, 2018

Syrian Electronic Army Members Indicted for Conspiracy

A federal grand jury has returned an 11-count indictment against two Syrian men, who have been charged with multiple counts of aggravated identity theft and their involvement in a conspiracy to commit computer hacking as members of the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA).

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 20, 2018

California Teen Arrested for Phishing Teachers to Change Grades

Bet nobody in your high school got in trouble for this: a 16-year-old hacker was arrested in Concord, California for launching a phishing campaign to steal teachers' login data and change grades. The student, whose name was withheld because he's a minor, faces 14 felony counts.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 19, 2018

New Research Seeks to Shorten Attack Dwell Time

One of the major issues in IT security is not that attacks and exploits are successful. It's that they're successful and then go unnoticed for so long.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 18, 2018

Mexican Banks Lose Millions in SWIFT-like Attacks

As many as five Mexican banks may have been targeted by what appears to be a highly co-ordinated cyber-attack in which unauthorized transfers were made to bogus accounts.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 15, 2018

White Hat Spoofs 2FA, Sends User to Phishing Page

Social engineering tactics are the bread and butter of hackers. Preying on trust, malicious actors are able to lure users into sharing personal information, even login credentials.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 14, 2018

Report: More Breaches Despite Increasing Security Budgets

Despite companies increasing their security budgets and investing a fortune in the best cybersecurity tools, organizations today are subject to more successful breaches than ever before – with five million data records lost or stolen every day, according to the fifth annual Cyberthreat Defense Report from CyberEdge group and sponsored by Gigamon.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 11, 2018

Former Iranian Hacker Exposes Cyber-Efforts

The Islamic Republic of Iran commonly responds to sanctions with offensive cyber-campaigns. Since at least 2009, Iran has relied on cyber-attacks to achieve many of its policy goals.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 10, 2018

Small Firms Up to 20 Times More Likely to be Breached

UK small businesses are up to 20 times more likely to suffer damaging data breaches than their larger counterparts, according to new data from Terbium Labs.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 09, 2018

Trial set for Latvian accused of running malware operation

Jury selection is set to begin in Virginia in the trial of a Latvian man accused of running a hacking operation offering malware products and services to cybercriminals.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 08, 2018

Equifax Update Clarifies Breach Details to SEC

Under-fire credit reporting agency Equifax has released updated figures clarifying the types and volumes of data stolen in its massive 2017 breach.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 08, 2018

Hackers Leverage GDPR to Target Airbnb Customers

A new phishing scam capitalizes on the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to trick Airbnb customers into sharing personal and financial data, Redscan reports. The scale of the campaign is unknown, though it likely targets email addresses taken from the open Web.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 04, 2018

What to do after a data breach: 5 steps to minimize risk

It happened again. Another major web service lost control of its database, and now you’re scrambling to stay ahead of the bad guys.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 03, 2018

A critical security flaw in popular industrial software put power plants at risk

A severe vulnerability in a widely used industrial control software could have been used to disrupt and shut down power plants and other critical infrastructure.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 02, 2018

Why Hackers Love Healthcare

Much like the rest of the world, healthcare organizations are shifting work to cloud services in order to improve accessibility and patient care. However, the migration of these workloads and moving valuable information such as PHI (personal health information) and PII (personally identifiable information) to the cloud has also led to cybercriminals taking a particular interest in the industry.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 29, 2018

Two-fifths of UK Firms Suffered Attack or Security Breach in 2017

Some 43% of UK businesses have experienced a security breach or cyber-attack in the past 12 months, a slight drop from a year previously, according to the latest government research.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 26, 2018

The firms that piggyback on ransomware attacks for profit

Being hit by ransomware must be bad enough when you don’t have a secure backup of your critical data that you can turn to. Just imagine how it feels to then be ripped off a second time by the data recovery firm you turn to for help in your moment of panic.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 25, 2018

Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 21

U.S. Investigation into China-Backed Telecom Companies Hack: The Role & Risks of Encryption Backdoors

FASTCash Linux Malware: A New Cybercrime Menace Targeting Payment Switch Systems

The Infiltration of Supply Chain Attacks in Open-Source Software Management