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September 2019
SPAMfighter News 2019/9/30
More than 1,650 Patients of the Carle Foundation Hospital got impacted by a phishing attack
Carle Foundation Hospital, at City of Urbana in Illinois State of United States, has suffered from data breach incident when an unauthorized
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/30
Ava R-I School District struck by a ransomware attack
It has been happening all over the United States (U.S.), and now it has happened in the Ava R-I School District of Missouri. The Ava School District
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/30
9,700 patients impacted by security breach in Shore Specialty Consultants Pulmonology Group
Shore Specialty Consultants Pulmonology Group, based in New Jersey, announced that it is notifying about 9,700 patients by mailing letters that some
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/27
Wallenpaupack Area School District became victim of a ransomware attack
Wallenpaupack Area School District has suffered from a ransomware attack, thus forcing the school to close and shut down all the 3,000 computers
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/27
North Korean hackers using fresh malicious program to attack ATM machines
Hackers from North Korea are employing one fresh malware strain which they developed to install onto ATM machines for intercepting data and grabbing
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/27
Fedcap Rehabilitation security breach impacted 2158 clients
Fedcap Rehabilitation, the New York-based provider of employment resources and vocational training, is alerting 2,158 former and current clients
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/26
Education website Thinkful for programmers and developers victim of hack
An education website Thinkful has declared that hackers attacked it for stealing data. The Brooklyn, New York-situated Thinkful offers training and
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/26
Digital database of Hungarian Development Center destroyed by hackers
According to the cyber security experts, government organizations and educational institutions have become key targets of hackers mostly in
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/26
Customers’ personal data got compromised due to Shopping Portal breach of Garmin SA
Garmin SA (Garmin South Africa) has disclosed in the notifications sent to their customers that payment as well as sensitive personal information
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/25
VPN, Selfie apps created for Android devices contain deceptive software
A malware issue plagues Google Play Store. What's more, it stays persistent in spite of the Internet giant's arduous efforts for bringing sketchy
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/25
Souderton Area School District became victim of a ransomware attack
Just few days after start of the new 2019-20 school year, computers of the Souderton Area School District was hit by a cyber attack. Dr. Frank
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/25
320,000 patients impacted by Ransomware attack on the Premier Family Medical
Premier Family Medical, the physician group in US state of Utah, has suffered from a ransomware attack that temporarily prevents access to the
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/24
Security researchers uncover new RAT that steals Bitcoin wallet data
There's been a speedy evolution of crypto-currencies' market since 2008 when the Bitcoin (BTC) digital currency found release. Along with this
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/24
Rockford Public Schools became victim of a ransomware attack
Rockford Public Schools (RPS) District 205 located in Rockford city of Illinois became victim of a ransomware attack that has downed the school
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/23
Notice about a recent data incident provided by Meridian Community College
Meridian Community College (also known as MCC) has been providing notice about a recent data incident that might have affected the personal
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/23
Hackers with superior expertise targeting IT service providers
According to security experts from Symantec a safety agency, an undocumented assault syndicate having advanced hacking skills recently hijacked
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/23
Around 15,000 customers of Metro Mobility notified about data breach
A data breach in Metro Mobility might have exposed personal information of around 15,000 individuals using it. Metro Mobility has been an invaluable
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/20
Melbourne woman indicted with cyber-crime of siphoning massive funds from share and superannuation A/Cs
An advanced online fraud roped in many innocent victims so revealed ASIC (Australian Securities and Investments Commission) along with AFP
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/20
ECIST notifying individuals about possible personal information breach
East Central Indiana School Trust (ECIST) has begun notifying over 3,200 individuals about exposure of some of their PHI (Protected Health
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/19
Ransomware gang demanded ransom of $5.3 Million but offered $400,000 from City of New Bedford
After executing the cyber attack that has disabled several New Bedford city computers, the hackers behind this incident has demanded ransom amount
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/19
New Lilu or Lilocked ransomware infected several web servers
A new ransomware strain named as Lilu or Lilocked has affected several web servers (i.e. in thousands) all around the world. This ransomware started
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/19
Flaw inside LastPass Chrome extension allows revelation of login credentials
LastPass in a security advisory has asked end-users to make its Chrome extension up-to-date with respect to the company's password manager. If
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/18
UC Health became victim of phishing attack possibly compromising patient information
UC Health in Ohio's Cincinnati city has suffered from a data breach after a few of their employees became victim of a phishing attack, thus possibly
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/18
Data Breach at the Conway Regional Medical Center exposes patient information
Conway Regional Medical Center, at Conway city of Arkansas state in U.S., has discovered that patient information was compromised in a phishing
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/18
Australia blames China as targeting its parliament with cyber attack
Reuters reports that Australian intelligence was able to find China as the culprit of a cyber assault against Australia's parliament along with 3
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/17
Phishing campaign targeting universities globally takes on massive attack scale
Threat actor Cobalt Dickens having ties with Iran government carried out one phishing operation during the months of July-August with the aim to
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/17
Phishing attack on Artesia General Hospital impacted 13,905 patients
The Artesia General Hospital based in Artesia, New Mexico, has discovered that the PHI (Protected Health Information) of 13,905 patients was
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/16
Mac users increasingly targeted with phishing attacks
Mac users are being targeted with phishing attacks in an ever increasing number, possibly rising twofold in 2019. Fraudulent e-mails spoofed as
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/16
Foxit Software suffered from data breach impacting more than 328,000 accounts
Foxit Software, known for the PDF applications such as PhantomPDF and Foxit Reader, has suffered from a data breach when the unauthorized
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/16
114,000 customers alerted by Wisconsin Diagnostic Laboratories about data breach
Wisconsin Diagnostic Laboratories becomes another victim to notify their patients about the data breach caused as a result of the AMCA (American
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/13
Wikipedia in several countries went offline following massive DDoS assault
Wikipedia the widely-accessed reference website was off the air within a number of countries following a malicious cyber attack that hit it. The
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/13
Rockville Center School District paid ransom of almost $90,000 for restoring their data
The officials said that Rockville Centre School District paid ransom of $88,000 in bitcoin, so as to regain access of the files on system's server
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/13
Phishing Attack on Navicent Health impacted about 1,400 Patients
Two months after Macon, Georgia-based Navicent Health discovered that one of their employees opened a phishing email that allowed the hackers to
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/12
Phishers hack SharePoint sites to steal login information of people performing banking transactions
OneNote documents and SharePoint websites are being compromised to carry out one novel large-scale phishing campaign. SharePoint, a service to
SPAMfighter News 2019/9/12
Lyons Companies suffered from a data breach incident
Lyons Companies, one of Delaware's leading insurance brokers, has suffered from a data breach incident that compromises sensitive information of the
SPAMfighter News 2019/9/11
Fresh spyware named Joker found in Google’s Android Play Store
Security researchers are cautioning Android phone users of new spyware which hides inside 24 apps within Google's Play Store. These apps have been
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/11
Around 14 million customers impacted by Hostinger data breach
Hostinger International Ltd., the famous web hosting provider as well as Internet domain registrar, has suffered from a data breach when an
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/10
New Kent County Public Schools suffered from a ransomware attack
New Kent County Public Schools has suffered from a ransomware attack that encrypted nearly the schools' whole computer system, and demand payment
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/10
Astro customers’ MyKad data got compromised due to a data breach
Astro Malaysia Holdings, the satellite TV (television) operator, has again suffered from a data breach last month (i.e. in August 2019). This is
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/9
Students beware of malware inside electronic textbooks; Kaspersky
Kaspersky Lab in its latest report cautions students of malware installers if they attempt at downloading essays and textbooks of electronic
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/9
New type of phishing attack that targets Android phones
Researchers from Check Point the cyber-security company recently found one fresh type of sophisticated phishing assault created for tricking
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/6
Nepali banks found vulnerable to ATM hacks and losing millions
On September 1, police in Nepal detained 5 Chinese nationals who were at Durbar Marg on charges they played a major role in a forgery of ATM cards.
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/6
Google reveals an iPhone hacking campaign that utilized monitoring implants
The external security researchers' group of Google has unearthed one iPhone hacking campaign of the first kind that attacked innumerable device
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/5
Apps with ad-clicking malware experiencing a massive 1.5m downloads listed inside Play Store
Security researchers discovered 2 apps which contained ad-clicking malware and were listed in Google Play, spanning over a year. The said apps
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/5
Macon County’s official website of Circuit Clerk was hacked by the Iranian Hackers
Macon County in the State of Illinois is the most recent government entity getting targeted by the hackers', who hacked a web page and then disabled
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/5
10,000 patients impacted due to data breach in Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) announced on Thursday (i.e. on August 22, 2019) that around 10,000 people's private information got revealed as
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/4
Virginia Gay Hospital notified their patients about the data security incident
Virginia Gay Hospital based in Vinton of Iowa state has become aware about the data security incident, which might have led to disclosure of
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/4
Avast helps French police annihilate dangerous Retadup virus
French police in the assistance of an anti-virus company gained hold over a server which cyber-criminals used for disseminating a virus designed for
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/4
7,000 patients of AHS were warned that their health information might be compromised in an email hack
Alberta Health Services (AHS) is notifying around 7,000 patients about their health information that might have been compromised after a physician's
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/3
MAHB still thinks malicious actor responsible for network failure at KLIA
MAHB (Malaysia Airports Holding Bhd) has opined that it's not overlooking a possibility of some entity with malicious intent being behind KLIA's
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/3
Around 5,500 patients PHI exposed in phishing attack on the Michigan Medicine
Around 5,500 patients of the Michigan Medicine are getting notified regarding the phishing email campaign, which might have exposed a few of their
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/3
App inside Google Play downloaded 100m times delivered clandestine payloads
Google Play is yet again in danger ever-since an app has been discovered which got downloaded 100m times even as it had one malicious component
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/2
Imposter VPN, Office software websites thrust banker Trojan
Cyber-criminals are reportedly floating fake widely-used VPN software's website in attempts to dupe end-users into downloading malicious software.
...SPAMfighter News 2019/9/2
Hackers demanded $1 Million ransom payment from Washington-based Hospital
The ransomware attack that hit an Aberdeen, Washington-based hospital as well as the associated clinics two months back is still causing the
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