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When Coffee Machines Demand Ransom, You Know IoT Is Screwed

Lyndsey Creamer

October 02, 2020 0 Comments

WITH THE NAME Smarter, you might expect a maker of network-connected kitchen appliances to be, well, smarter than companies selling conventional appliances. But in the case of the Smarter internet-of-things coffee maker, you’d be wrong. Security problems with Smarter products first came to light...

Cyber Security Hacking Healthcare Malware Phising Ransomware

German hospital hacked, patient taken to another city dies

Lyndsey Creamer

September 18, 2020 0 Comments

German authorities said Thursday that what appears to have been a misdirected hacker attack caused the failure of IT systems at a major hospital in Duesseldorf, and a woman who needed urgent admission died after she had to be taken to another city for treatment. The Duesseldorf University Clinic’s...

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Fraudsters Conducting Malvertising Campaign Via Inactive Domains

Lyndsey Creamer

August 10, 2020 0 Comments

A number of inactive websites have been compromised and are redirecting visitors to unwanted URLs, many of which are malicious. This is according to a new study by Kaspersky, which uncovered over 1000 inactive domains that send users to second-hand pages as a way for fraudsters to make money or ...

Cyber Security Hacking Ransomware

‘Payment sent’ – travel giant CWT pays $4.5 million ransom

Lyndsey Creamer

August 03, 2020 0 Comments

LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. travel management firm CWT paid $4.5 million this week to hackers who stole reams of sensitive corporate files and said they had knocked 30,000 computers offline, according to a record of the ransom negotiations seen by Reuters. The attackers used a strain of ransomware...

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Online Attack Targets V.I.P. Twitter Users in a Bitcoin Scam

Lyndsey Creamer

July 16, 2020 0 Comments

It was about 4 in the afternoon on Wednesday on the East Coast when chaos struck online. Dozens of the biggest names in America — including Joseph R. Biden Jr., Barack Obama, Kanye West, Bill Gates and Elon Musk — posted similar messages on Twitter: Send Bitcoin and the famous people would send ...

Coronavirus Cyber Security Government Hacking Malware Phising Ransomware

Russian Criminal Group Target Americans Working at Home

Lyndsey Creamer

July 02, 2020 0 Comments

A Russian ransomware group whose leaders were indicted by the Justice Department in December is retaliating against the U.S. government, many of America’s largest companies and a major news organization, identifying employees working from home during the pandemic and attempting to get inside the...

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Healthcare Targeted By More Cyberattacks Amid COVID-19 Outbreak

Lyndsey Creamer

May 05, 2020 0 Comments

Healthcare organizations are experiencing an increase in probes and fraud attempts against their businesses and suppliers, but the attacks appear not to be very sophisticated, security experts said this week. Organizations, for example, saw a 30% increase last month in the number of COVID-19-themed ...

Cyber Security Did You Know?Hacking Remote Access

This cybersecurity school will teach kids to crack codes from home

Lyndsey Creamer

May 01, 2020 0 Comments

Children across the country will have the opportunity to crack codes, fix security flaws and examine the trails left behind by cyber criminals as part of a new learning experience they can take part in from home. The initiative from the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS), the National Cyb...

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Cybersecurity experts fight coronavirus-related hacking

Lyndsey Creamer

March 31, 2020 0 Comments

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – An international group of nearly 400 volunteers with expertise in cybersecurity formed on Wednesday to fight hacking related to the novel coronavirus. Called the COVID-19 CTI League, for cyber threat intelligence, the group spans more than 40 countries and includes pr...

Cyber Security Hacking Latin America Malware

Cybercriminals & drug cartels are spreading malware in Latin America

Lyndsey Creamer

March 10, 2020 0 Comments

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When Coffee Machines Demand Ransom, You Know IoT Is Screwed

German hospital hacked, patient taken to another city dies

Fraudsters Conducting Malvertising Campaign Via Inactive Domains

‘Payment sent’ – travel giant CWT pays $4.5 million ransom

Online Attack Targets V.I.P. Twitter Users in a Bitcoin Scam

Russian Criminal Group Target Americans Working at Home

Healthcare Targeted By More Cyberattacks Amid COVID-19 Outbreak

This cybersecurity school will teach kids to crack codes from home

Cybersecurity experts fight coronavirus-related hacking

Cybercriminals & drug cartels are spreading malware in Latin America

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