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Japan’s Liquid Global Exchange Hacked; $90M in Crypto Siphoned Off
Japan’s Liquid Global exchange said it has been hacked, and has suspended deposits and withdrawals. According to a tweet on Thursday, the exchange said its warm wallets were compromised and that it was moving digital assets offline. While the total amount stolen has...
Microsoft warning: This unusual malware attack has just added some new tricks
Microsoft's Security Intelligence team is once again raising an alarm about the call center phishing and malware group behind what it calls BazaCall. "We are tracking multiple active email campaigns that use BazarLoader to deliver a wide range of payloads. These...
Malicious Ads Target Cryptocurrency Users With Cinobi Banking Trojan
A new social engineering-based malvertising campaign targeting Japan has been found to deliver a malicious application that deploys a banking trojan on compromised Windows machines to steal credentials associated with cryptocurrency accounts. The application...
More and more phishing scams are using Google Meet links
Cybersecurity researchers have noticed a sharp increase in phishing attacks that rely on Google’s open redirects using Google Meet and Google DoubleClick. The use of the open redirects allows threat actors to camouflage malicious links as trustworthy ones and get them...
Accenture Tied Up in $50M Ransom Lockbit 2.0 Attack
Global consulting firm Accenture has been the target of ransomware group Lockbit, with the gang reportedly taking encrypted data from the company. Lockbit says it will publish the data if Accenture does not pay the ransom, according to screenshots of the...
71 billion ransomware attacks on remote access – ESET
There have been 71 billion ransomware attacks on remote access between January 2020 and June 2021, according to new research from ESET. The cybersecurity firm published its latest research white paper, titled RANSOMWARE: A look at the criminal art of malicious code,...
Hacker behind biggest ever cryptocurrency heist returns stolen funds
The threat actor who hacked Poly Network's cross-chain interoperability protocol yesterday to steal over $600 million worth of cryptocurrency assets is now returning the stolen funds. As the Chinese decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Poly Network shared two hours...
Despite cybersecurity training 85% of employees still reuse passwords – report
According to new research, nearly two-thirds of employees use personal passwords to protect corporate data and vice versa. And business leaders are finding this increasingly concerning. The research conducted by identity and access management company My1Login found...
Don’t be that employee: How to avoid ransomware attacks at work
Tips to avoid clicking something bad — and what might happen if you do When a security vulnerability at IT software-maker Kaseya led to a ransomware attack that affected 800 to 1,500 businesses, it wasn’t one employee’s fault. But that’s not always the case....
48 million malware messages: Proofpoint reveals the reality of today’s threat landscape
2020 proved to be a significant year for cyber threats and attacks. In fact, Proofpoint’s latest Human Factor report reveals the reality of millions of ransomware-loaded emails, malicious threat actors and new sophisticated attack methods. Proofpoint’s Human Factor...