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August 2018
SPAMfighter News 2018/8/31
Hacking Remains the Top Breach Type in July
Amongst all the incident of breaches, hacking tops the chart again in the month of July this year. Out of all the breaches identified, hacking
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/31
DNC Claims Stopping Attempted Breach into its Voter Database
The date August 22, 2018 is about Democratic National Committee getting to know of an attempted breach into the voter database it maintained that
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/30
Necurs Botnet Pounces on Banks Via Targeted Phishing Campaign
The Necurs network-of-bots recently re-emerged within one fresh phishing campaign aiming attacks on banks via the use of malevolent PDF and
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/30
Hackers Hit South Africa’s Former Minister’s Phone and Solicit Money
As per a report, South Africa's former minister of communication, and minister of public service and administration, Faith Muthambi's phone got
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/29
Website of St. Lawrence County got Hacked
The website of St. Lawrence County was hacked, and as a result was shut down in the afternoon of 21 August, 2018, as per Dylan Soper, the assistant
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/29
Cloquet School District Again Targeted by a Ransomware Attack
Cloquet school district has been hit by a ransomware attack second time in the past three years. The ransomware is a virulent computer malware,
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/28
Teenager Found Guilty of Hacking Apple's Computer Systems
An Australian teenager from Melbourne has been facing criminal charges by authorities, after the 16 year old boy hacked the secure computer systems
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/28
New ‘Keypass,’ a Highly Prolific Ransomware
Kaspersky Lab the security company has been analyzing one fresh ransomware strain called KeyPass, which according to the researchers, has a
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/27
Norfolk County Resident Loses $20,000 in an Online Scam
A resident of Norfolk County faced a computer scam, and he was robbed off an amount of $20,000 by the scammer. The scam took place when he received
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/27
Nigerian Citizen Facing Charges over Phishing Attacks against U.S Higher Educational Institutions
A jury of the federation after prosecuting Olayinka Olaniyi a Nigerian citizen for 3 days convicted him, 9th August, 2018, following accusations
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/24
New ‘Smishing’ Attacks Impersonating Sagawa Express, Target Smart-Phone Users
Police are maintaining vigilance to thwart 'smishing' referring to 'SMS phishing' campaigns wherein the fraudsters introduce themselves as Sagawa
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/24
Fraudsters Disguised as Priest Target Alberta Parishioners in Email Phishing Scam
Catholic Church officials issued a warning against an email phishing scam, which has targeted the parishioners of Alberta. The fraudsters who are
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/24
Ex-Microsoft Engineer to Serve Jail over Money Laundering Involving Ransomware
An erstwhile engineer with Microsoft faces a jail sentence for eighteen months following conviction with charges of money laundering after
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/23
Password Managers can be Hacked Internally
Security researchers have identified over 10 PC applications which are critical security-wise and so prone to insider compromise. Most security
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/23
Banks and Other Financial Institutions Increasingly Being Targeted By Phishing Attacks
According to the recent reports of Kaspersky Lab, banks and various other financial institutions are increasingly being hit by the phishing attacks,
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/22
Pune’s Cosmos Cooperative Bank Loses INR 94 Crore in Malware Attack
The cooperative bank Cosmos based in Pune encountered a hacker's attack losing more than INR 94 crore in fraudulent transactions whereby the money
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/22
Iot Attacks gets Doubled in the Last Two Months - Check Point
As per the monthly report of Check Point, around half of the global organizations, in the previous month, were hit by malware that was targeting the
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/22
Instagram Falls Prey to the Hacking Attack
A widespread campaign by the hackers has hit Instagram, which seems to have affected several users. The hacking attack has proved fatal to the users
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/21
Children Show it Kid’s Play in Compromising Election Websites
A demonstration by hackers of Def Con conference shows the manner in which voting machines can be easily hacked. Evidently, adults in the Voting
SPAMfighter News 2018/8/21
Automated Teller Machines Cash-Hack Imminent, as Per an FBI Alert
As per an FBI warning, the cyber criminals will soon be coming out with a well-coordinated plan to attack the cash machines all over the world. This might
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/20
White-Hat Hackers make Surveillance Devices Out of Echo Speakers of Amazon
From the time Amazon Echo and other 'smart speakers' made their first appearance among global households, these have been regarded as key target in
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/20
Twitter Account of Peter Alexander was Taken Over by the Hackers
Twitter account of Peter Alexander, National correspondent of NBC News, was taken over by the hackers on Sunday morning. The hackers then posted
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/17
Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority Server Ruined by a Computer Virus
The computer system of Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority (OBPA) was infiltrated by a virus just at a mouse click to an unknown email attachment.
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/17
Butlin's, a British Holiday Resort, Fall Victim to Email Phishing Scam
Butlin's, a British holiday resort, falls prey to the hackers attack when they witnessed a data breach by the unauthorised third-party. Butlin's
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/16
SamSam Ransomware Assaults Likely to Rise against Indian Enterprises Soon
India now appears as being hackers' lucrative target. Sophos, the Internet security solutions firm is advising enterprises across India for
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/16
Modifications for Mobile Banking Trojan Reach All-Time High
As per Kaspersky Lab researchers report, Mobile Banking Trojans modifications installation packages number peaked up by 61,000 in Q2 of 2018. The
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/16
Danabot Banking Trojan - A New Threat to Australian Companies
In the last few years, we have seen a concerning rise in frequency of malware and phishing attacks. This year also, we have witnessed many banking
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/15
Hawera High School Temporarily Shuts Down its Computer System after Hack
As per principal Rachel Williams, the staffs of Hawera High School in South Taranaki found a message asking for ransom for returning encrypted data
SPAMfighter News 2018/8/15
DBS Bank Customers are Targeted by Fake Messages and Advertisements
DBS Bank said they have found multiple SMS along with online advertisements claiming to be from the DBS Bank or impersonating the DBS.
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SPAMfighter News 2018/8/14
Windows Ransomware Hit Apple’s Iphone Processor Maker in Taiwan
TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) has been forced to shut down its operations on the first week of August due to a malware attack in
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/14
Paypal Users are Targeted by a New Phishing Scam
Security experts warned that, the users of PayPal should be careful from a scam email that is designed for installing malware on user's computer. As
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/14
Hackers Employ Crypto-Mining Malware to Contaminate More Than 210K Mikrotik Routers
Security researchers recently uncovered a surge of attacks wherein hackers exploited many vulnerable routers forming a network for proliferating
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/13
Phishers’ Gang Attacks Businesses and Rips off 15m Card Numbers
Through one targeted phishing assault that unleashed malware, FIN7 -name of a group- hijacked 3,600 businesses via online operation and ripped off
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/13
Multiple Cves are Exploited by the New Cryptomining Malware - ‘Zombieboy’
ZombieBoy, the latest cryptomining malware, is on prowl. James Quinn, a security researcher, found the latest strain of cryptomining malware named
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/10
Ios Phishing Scam Exploiting the iCloud Email Addresses
It looks like the scammers are specifically targeting the Apple users. Soon after the previous issue (within a month), we came to know about another
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/10
Hundreds of Russian Companies Attacked with Extremely Personalized Spear-Phishing E-Mails
An advanced and newly-launched phishing campaign is reportedly aiming attack on Russian companies representing various industrial sectors. The
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/10
Google Play Rid off Nearly 150 Android Applications Carrying Malware Tailored for Windows
Following one report that Palo Alto Networks the security firm provided, Google recently cleaned its authorized Play Store off 145 Android
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/9
Spam Popularity as much as When First Started
F-Secure the cyber-security company based in Helsinki states that spam continues to be the preferred scheme for infecting people's computers with
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/9
Def Con Conference to Scrutinize Election Websites with the Help of Child Hackers
WIRED has reported that at the conference of Def Con hacker next week, a contest has been organized for the child hackers to hack replicas of the
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/8
Malware Attack Hits Two Alaskan Municipalities
An advanced strain of malware has just crippled computers within two municipalities within Alaska during a cyber assault, which according to
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/8
Forty Years on and Cyber-Criminals Still Prefer Spamming Mails
The starting of a spam mail is now four decades past. Still we find cyber-criminals prefer spamming messages just as much for the distribution of
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/8
Few Reddit Employees Accounts got Compromised Leading to a Hack
Recently, Reddit announced that their employee accounts, which were on the cloud and source code hosting providers, were hacked. This has led to the
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/7
Unitypoint Health Encountered a Phishing Attack
Email system of UnityPoint Health encountered a phishing attack, which may lead to compromising of health and personal data of over million patients
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/7
Reward of $10,000 by HP to Researchers for Hacking Their Printers
In its recent announcement, the tech giant, HP, has given an open invitation to the security researchers to hack their printers. If the researcher
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/6
US Network of COSCO was Hit by a Ransomware Attack
One of the largest shipping giant of world falls prey to a ransomware attack, when its American network was taken down, which might lead to millions
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/6
Prisoners Hacked the Jpay System to Add Credit to their Accounts
As per Jeffrey Ray, spokesman of Idaho Department of Corrections, an inquiry shows that the JPay system has been hacked by over 360 inmates for
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/6
Cyber Attacks Using ‘Fileless’ Mode Rapidly Increasing During 2018: Mcafee
According to McAfee Labs, cyber-criminals have been found executing more and more of "fileless" attacks during the current year as they
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/3
Manitobans, Beware of Fraud Emails Asking for an Extortion Amount - RCMP
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has issued a warning for the public regarding the threat being caused by the email scam. Manitobans are
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/3
Insufficient Router Security has People in India Prone to Cyber Assaults
The latest research report by digital security firm Avast states that many Indians, about 32%, haven't ever gone to the web admin protocol for
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/2
New Trojan Installer Designed to Attack Enterprises
In an instance like never before that emphasizes the rapid evolution of threat scenario, security firm Seqrite just thwarted an extremely advanced
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/2
Huge Botnet - Comprising More Than 18,000 Huawei Routers – was Created by Anarc
A huge botnet, comprising more than 18,000 routers, was created by a malware author in one single day. Security researchers of NewSky Security were
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/2
Browserspy Poses a Threat to Vietnam by Infecting Lakhs of Computers
Bkav Technology Group revealed that a malware called BrowserSpy was being discovered by their virus monitoring system on 26 July. The malware, as
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/1
Tick Group’s Malware Attack Strikes Again
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, in its report of June 2018, mentioned that weak supply chain security may have been exploited, by a threat group named
...SPAMfighter News 2018/8/1
Alive Hospice Falls Prey to Phishing Attacks
Two employees of Alive Hospice based in Tennessee, fell victim to a phishing attack. This potentially breached the patient data for 1 to 4 months.
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