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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...
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 ...
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...
Is your company ready for work-from-home? Although you may have recently made the abrupt leap to remote working to protect the well-being of your customers and colleagues, many organizations have found that work outside of the office has been more successful than they imagined. Prior to shelter-in-...
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 ...
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...
This month, Microsoft and partners from 35 countries took steps to disrupt a botnet behind the world’s largest cybercrime network. The botnet, Necurs, has infected an estimated nine million computers worldwide, and it’s one of the largest spam email networks, generating as many as 3.8 million ...
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Cybercriminals are taking advantage of global fears surrounding the deadly coronvavirus by sending out malware-laden emails supposedly offering guidance. Multiple email campaigns have been detected by security firms monitoring for the latest threats, all of which use coronavirus as a hook to try and...