Chinese-Based Hackers Alleged to Have Stolen $20M in COVID-19 Relief Fraud Schemes
According to NBC News and Reuters, the United States Secret Service confirmed that hackers from APT41, a criminal cyber-hacking group linked to the Chinese Communist Party, stole “at least $20 million...
Hackers Caused a Traffic Jam in Moscow
Hackers caused a massive traffic jam in Moscow by exploiting the ride-sharing app Yandex Taxi and using it to summon dozens of taxis to a single location. While Yandex has not...
Hackers Target Russia in Support Of Ukraine
The world has rallied around Ukraine since Russian forces invaded this past week, including, it seems, hackers. The hacktivist collective Anonymous, which gained prominence between 2008 and 2014 with a series...
Update on Apache log4j and Kronos Security Incidents
It was a crazy weekend for cyberattacks. People seem surprised, but those of us in the industry aren’t surprised one bit. It is very logical and foreseeable that hackers are leveraging...
Homeland Security Announces “Hack DHS” Program
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a “bug bounty” program on December 14, 2021, called “Hack DHS.” Yes, you read that right. DHS is actually going to invite select cybersecurity...
Class Action Against Shopify Dismissed for Lack of Jurisdiction
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed a consumer class action against Ledger SAS’s e-commerce vendor Shopify Inc. because of its locale – Shopify is headquartered in...
Phishing, Vishing, and Smishing—Your Employees Need to Know the Newest Schemes
New dictionary words have been formed to describe online scams. Phishing, one that everyone knows by now, is when a scammer uses a pretext in an email to get someone to...
Colonial Pays Millions in Ransomware Attack on Pipeline
Colonial Pipeline paid hackers a ransom of $4.4 million in bitcoin soon after discovering a cybersecurity hack on its systems that began on May 6. The company’s acknowledgement comes after days of...
Microsoft Releases Additional Resources for Exchange Flaws and CISA Issues Alert
As we alerted our readers last week, Microsoft announced that its Exchange email servers have been compromised, which is estimated to affect at least 30,000 companies based in the United States....
Another Cybersecurity Firm Hit with Attack by “Highly Sophisticated” Hackers
Cybersecurity firm SonicWall Inc. is investigating an attack on its internal systems that it describes as “highly sophisticated.” According to SonicWall, the investigation is centered around its Secure Mobile Access 100...