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US children's apparel maker and online retailer Hanna Andersson disclosed that its online purchasing platform was hacked and malicious code was deployed to steal customers' payment info for almost two months. In this type of attack dubbed Magecart, threat actors are hacking into vulnerable e-commerce platforms used by online stores and inject malicious JavaScript-based scripts into checkout pages. Source: Bleeping Computer

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New Spam Template for Emotet Malware

The Emotet malware has started using a spam template that pretends to be an extortion demand from a "Hacker" who states that they hacked the recipient's computer and stole their data. Emotet is spread through spam emails that commonly use templates based around a particular theme such as shipping information, voice mails, scanned documents, reports, and invoices. Source: Bleeping Computer  

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Robot

Services Australia has provided updated statistics on Centrelink's Online Compliance Intervention (OCI) -- robo-debt -- program, confirming that from 1 July 2016 through 31 August 2019 there had been 1,159,662 assessments initiated. Services Australia and its predecessor, the Department of Human Services, over this period raised a total of 617,018 debts. One assessment can however lead to multiple debts if the recipient has been the beneficiary of different types of income support payments, the department...

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Nest Video New Extortion Scam Looks Like a Spy Game

A new sextortion scam that breaks the typical mold has been detected at the beginning of the year. Fraudsters preying on the insecurity of connected devices used footage from Nest cameras, and led victims through a convoluted path of email accounts and web sites before making their ransom price known. Compared to a typical sextortion campaign, the fraudsters put in some effort to convince the victim that they’re dealing with skilled hackers by having them...

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