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A misconfiguration error has exposed personal data belonging to customers of New England's largest energy provider. On March 16, Eversource discovered that one of its cloud data storage folders had erroneously been set to open access rather than to restricted access. The company serves more...

New analysis of leaked login data has revealed which movie titles most frequently feature in passwords. Specops trawled through more than 800 million breached passwords to determine which big-screen hits were favored by users. The selection was a subset of a list of 2 billion passwords that...

Security researchers have discovered that a persistent cryptocurrency mining botnet is exploiting still-unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers to grow globally. Dubbed “Prometei,” the botnet was first reported on in July 2020 and is thought to have been around since 2016, according to Cybereason...

Over a quarter (29%) of threats spotted in Q4 2020 had never before been detected in-the-wild, giving attackers an advantage over their victims, according to HP Inc. The tech giant’s latest Quarterly Threat Insights Report was compiled from data gathered from its global customers’ Sure Click...

A threat prevention firm is claiming to have access to 1.3 million breached RDP servers and their credentials, which were put up for sale on a popular dark web site. New York-headquartered Advanced Intelligence is offering a new free service enabling concerned organizations to check if their...

The US Department of Justice has reportedly launched a new ransomware task force, after an infamous threat group claimed to have stolen Apple trade secrets via a supplier. The REvil (Sodinokibi) group is reported to have posted a blog to its dark web-hosted naming and shaming site in which it...

INTERPOL is set to join The Coalition Against Stalkerware, and will help advance the group’s efforts by educating the global law enforcement community on how to proactively investigate the use of stalkerware, as well as provide support to victims. The alliance was first set up in November 2019...

A Canadian court has ordered American tech giant Google to disclose who has been operating a YouTube channel and a blog that have allegedly been used for cyber-bullying. Wife and husband Sakura Saunders and Darius Mirshahi allege that whoever is behind the blog "Antifa: Exposed" and a YouTube...

Costco Wholesale Corporation is warning American internet users to be wary of more than a dozen digital scams targeting its customer base. On its website, the American multinational corporation has published screenshots of 14 "prominent fraudulent emails, texts, and posts" in which...

The volume of malware hidden in encrypted traffic has doubled over the past few months as threat actors look to circumvent security tools, according to Sophos. The security vendor claimed that 23% of the malware it detected in 2020 was encrypted with the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol...

Some of the UK’s biggest hotel brands may be exposing themselves and their customers to the risk of phishing attacks due to a lack of adequate messaging security, according to Proofpoint. The security vendor took a look at the primary corporate domains associated with the 60 most popular listed...

IT security teams have until Sunday to hunt for evidence of Emotet infection, and potentially related malware, before the notorious botnet is removed from all global devices on Sunday, experts have warned. Back in January, Europol announced that law enforcers had been able to seize the...

The UK must work with other liberal democracies to ensure the internet and emerging digital technologies remain free and open. This is the view of Jeremy Fleming, director of GCHQ, who gave the 2021 Vincent Briscoe lecture for the Institute for Security Science and Technology at Imperial College...

Ireland has been warned by the United States that storing large amounts of data makes it an attractive target for cyber-criminals. The caution was uttered by John Demers, the assistant attorney general at the US National Security Division, while giving a keynote address at the IFPC2021...

The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has teamed up with marketing and cybersecurity games company Katzcy to launch the first US Cyber Games. Consisting of the US Cyber Open and the US Cyber Combine...

A woman from California has been charged with waging a multi-year cyberstalking campaign against three teenage boys. Brentwood resident Ramajana Hidic Demirovic was charged by a federal grand jury with cyberstalking and conspiracy to commit cyberstalking. It is alleged that 46-year-old...

Over a quarter (29%) of threats spotted in Q4 2020 had never before been detected in-the-wild, giving attackers an advantage over their victims, according to HP Inc. The tech giant’s latest Quarterly Threat Insights Report was compiled from data gathered from its global customers’ Sure Click...

Security researchers have discovered a new cyber-espionage campaign targeting global telecoms operators for IP and information relating to 5G. Named Operation Diànxùn by McAfee, the campaign is likely to be the work of Chinese threat actors RedDelta and Mustang Panda. “While the initial vector...

A Californian man has been charged by a US regulator for tweeting false information to his followers in a secret bid to inflate the value of his shares in a defunct cannabis company. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week announced fraud charges and an asset freeze against...

Half of cybersecurity incident response professionals desire a better work-life balance from their role, according to recruitment firm Stott and May. The survey of 100 incident response professionals in the UK and US sought to determine the key factors that personnel in this area look for in a...