For the second year in a row, denizens of a large German-language online forum have donated more than USD $250,000 to cancer research organizations in protest of a story KrebsOnSecurity published in 2018 that unmasked the creators of Coinhive, a now-defunct cryptocurrency mining service that was massively abused by cybercriminals. Krebs is translated as "cancer" in German.

As to how the breach happened, the company is so far keeping details tightly rolled up.

By Waqas

Apparently, the malware attack is carried out by Russian speaking hackers. The IT security researchers at Zscaler have discovered a sophisticated malware campaign targeting websites based on WordPress and Joomla content management system (CMS). The campaign works in such a way that hackers take advantage of a hidden directory on HTTPS and exploit vulnerabilities in extensions, plugins, and themes […]

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Tyler Barriss, a 26-year-old California man who admitted making a phony emergency call to police in late 2017 that led to the shooting death of an innocent Kansas resident, has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.

Researchers at Black Hat Asia said that Intel VISA, an undocumented testing tool, can be abused using previously-disclosed vulnerabilities.

Researchers at Black Hat Asia said that Intel VISA, a testing tool, can be abused using previously-disclosed vulnerabilities.

On Feb. 21, 2019, KrebsOnSecurity contacted Italian restaurant chain Buca di Beppo after discovering strong evidence that two million credit and debit card numbers belonging to the company's customers were being sold in the cybercrime underground. Today, Buca's parent firm announced it had remediated a 10-month breach of its payment systems at dozens of restaurants, including some locations of its other brands such as Earl of Sandwich and Planet Hollywood.

By Waqas

We normally consider family locator app as a blessing because we are able to track our family members conveniently through them. But, what if your private data collected or shared on such an app gets misused by cybercriminals because the app fails to secure it properly? It would instantly become a nuisance…no? The same has […]

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Users of the conferencing platform should update immediately.

Users of the conferencing platform should update immediately.