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A recent spate of financial malware campaigns targeting Brazilian companies, collectively dubbed Metamorfo, uses “spray and pray” spam tactics to ensnare their victims. Read more

A cyber attack has occurred within Dawson County, Georgia targeting the government computer servers. According to the county IT analyst Will Shattuck, the Dawson County servers were attacked on Monday afternoon, April 23rd. Read more

Virginia-based firm WEI Mortgage disclosed recently that they have been hit by a data breach which could have led to the sensitive and personal data of their customers being exposed. WEI Mortgage is a subsidiary of Arc Home and helps to provide quality mortgages to home buyers and owners. Read more

The famous energy drink, Red Bull, was under the attack recently when its website got hacked by a group of hackers. While no changes and replacements were made on the website, there is an addition of a few pages which weren’t there before. Read more

Ride-hailing giant, Careem faced a data breach this year which led to data of 14 million customers getting stolen. This Dubai based transportation network posted on their website in a blog saying, “Careem has identified a cyber-incident involving unauthorized access to the system we use to store data.” Read more

The U.S government are now monitoring ICO’s in order to prevent scams. The SEC announced charges against Raymond Trapani, the third co-founder of Centra Tech Inc. which has raised $32 Million for a cryptocurrency debit card. Read more

Researchers have uncovered a Nigerian hacking ring which targets maritime shipping firms in order to try and steal millions of dollars on an annual basis. On Wednesday, security experts from the Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) said that the previously unidentified “Gold Galleon” threat group specializes in business email compromise (BEC) and business email spoofing

Personal information of around 16,000 people could be in the hands of the hacker due to a cyber-attack on UnityPoint Health, a network of hospitals, clinics and home care services in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. Read more

A flaw in LinkedIn’s autofill plugin could allow hackers to steal your full name, phone number, email address, ZIP Code, company and job title. Malicious sites have been able to invisibly render the plugin on their entire page so if the users who are logged into LinkedIn click anywhere they will be completing a hidden

Suzette Kugler, who had been a loyal employee for PenAir for many years, hacked into the database of the airline system to tamper with the ticketing system. The event took place last year in May, however the verdict has come out just now. Read more