Cloud Consultancy News
Damaging insider threats rise to new highs in the past year
70 percent of organisations are more frequently seeing insider attacks, with 60 percent experiencing one or more within the last 12 months, and 68 percent feeling “extremely to moderately” vulnerable to them, according to Nucleus Cyber. Not only are organisations...
This new Android ransomware infects you through SMS messages
A new family of ransomware designed to attack Google's Android mobile operating system utilizes SMS messaging to spread, researchers say. On Monday, cybersecurity professionals from ESET revealed their investigation into the new malware, dubbed Android/Filecoder.C,...
Apple’s Siri overhears your drug deals and sexual activity, whistleblower says
Apple's Siri records private and confidential conversations and activities on a regular basis including talk relating to medical conditions, drug deals, and sex acts. The Guardian reports that an unnamed whistleblower has brought the situation to light, in which...
Attackers are deleting files on Iomega NAS devices and demanding ransom
The attackers behind this campaign are demanding a ransom between 0.01 and 0.05 bitcoins. The bitcoin address associated with this campaign has received a total of 9 payments since June 27, 2019. Attackers are deleting files on publicly accessible Lenovo Iomega NAS...
Capital One data breach impacts 100 million Americans and 6 million Canadians
An unauthorised third-party accessed the information for 106 million people by exploiting a configuration vulnerability. The exposed information includes personal information, credit card data, transaction data, Social Security numbers, linked bank account numbers,...
Scammers trick Whatsapp users by offering 1000GB free data on the app’s 10th anniversary
The victims are asked to share the message with at least 30 more people in order to claim the reward. The ultimate goal of the scammers is to perform click fraud through this type of scam. A new WhatsApp scam that claims to offer free internet data has been doing...
Current methods for anonymizing data leave individuals at risk of being re-identified
With the first large fines for breaching GDPR upon us, even anonymized datasets can be traced back to individuals using machine learning, researchers from University of Louvain and Imperial College London have shown. The researchers say their paper demonstrates that...
Mobile malware attacks are booming in 2019: These are the most common threats
Malware attacks against mobile devices -- and Android handsets in particular -- have rocketed this year, with hackers increasingly turning their attention to attacking smartphones with credential-theft, surveillance, and malicious advertising. Researchers at Check...
Microsoft is set to shake up Dynamics 365 pricing and packaging again
Microsoft has plans in the works to change the way it is pricing and packaging its Dynamics 365 CRM and ERP applications. Officials shared some of the changes which will go live on October 1 with Dynamics 365 partners at last week's Inspire partner conference. The...
Free decryptor for LooCipher Ransomware has been released
This free decryptor allows LooCipher victims to decrypt their encrypted files without the need for paying the ransom. This decryptor has been created by security researcher Michael Gillespie with assistance from Francesco Muroni. Emsisoft has released a free...