Business email compromise (BEC) is one of the most impactful techniques in the present-day con artists’ toolkit. To execute this type of an attack, cybercrooks hack or spoof an email account of an organization’s senior manager and send fake invoices on behalf of this trusted person to contractors or employees
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Coinsquare cryptocurrency exchange suffers data breach
Coinsquare, a Canadian-based cryptocurrency exchange company has suffered a cyber-security breach which resulted in about 50,000 email addresses and phone numbers stolen by hackers with the intention of using them to perform a SIM swap attack. The stolen data were meant to be sold but trading the SIM records may amount
Cryptojacking Post Office exposed in Russia
The Russian police have reportedly arrested the head of a cryptojacking post office who has been accused of using computers placed in his care at his post office branch to mine cryptocurrencies according to reports from local media. The investigation started by the Russian police on the now-former regional head of
XMR: Monero implicated in another cryptojacking scandal
Once again, Monero (XMR) is involved in another cryptojacking scandal with hackers using up to a thousand corporate servers for XMR mining. Hackers have once again attacked one of the popular cryptocurrency known as Monero by installing a hidden miner on about a thousand corporate servers. The Blue Mockingbird hacking group
Notorious hackers infect authentic 2FA app with malware
With the infamous Lazarus group believed to be responsible for the malware attack. Research experts from Malwarebytes Lab have once again discovered a fresh attack from the Lazarus group in which they planted a potent malware into the free MinaOTP, a two-factor authentication (2FA) app powered by Mac Operating System with
GateHub Cryptocurrency Website Hack exposes 2 Million Wallets
GateHub Cryptocurrency website has been hacked. Plus, EpicBot website as well. More than 2.2 million users of two cryptocurrency websites got their passwords and sensitive personal information posted online. The information, which contains not only passwords but other sensitive information about the users of the two websites. GateHub Cryptocurrency Website Hacked (Plus EpicBot) A