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A new spam campaign is underway that pretends to be a job application from "Eva Richter" who is sending her photo and resume. This resume, though, is actually an executable masquerading as a PDF file that destroys a victim's files by installing the Ordinypt Wiper. Ordinypt is a destructive malware commonly targeted at German people that pretends to be ransomware that encrypts your files and then demands victim's pay a ransom to get their files back....

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Dealer Leads, LLC, a digital marketing company for car dealerships, was discovered last month to have exposed an Elastic database that contained 198 million records on prospective automotive buyers. Publicly accessible information included the plain-text names, email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses and IP addresses of visitors to numerous websites affiliated with Dealer Leads, cybersecurity news and consulting firm Security Discovery reported today in a blog post. Source: SC Magazine

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Fraudsters are exploiting new online security checks to obtain sensitive information from victims. It comes just days after Action Fraud warned of more 'sextortion scams' doing the rounds in the UK, with over 600 reports last week alone. These scams involve criminals claiming to have gained access to a victim's device following the viewing of pornographic material, relying on the premise of a surveillance hack to threaten the individual. The new scam however is less overt and...

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UK police have arrested a suspected hacker for stealing unreleased music from recording artists and trying to sell the looted files for cryptocurrency. The 19-year-old suspect allegedly targeted "award-winning international superstars" by breaking into their websites and cloud-based accounts to access recorded music, the City of London Police said in a Friday statement. Source: PCMAG

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Garmin Southern Africa (Garmin SA) disclosed today in a series of notifications sent to its customers that payment and sensitive personal information were stolen from orders placed on the shop.garmin.co.za shopping portal. Garmin SA was previously a Garmin distributor named Garmin Distribution Africa (GDA) before being acquired by Garmin, a global leader in satellite navigation, on September 2011.  In a press release published on July 31, 2019, Garmin announced a "Record second quarter revenue of $955 million, a 7% increase, with aviation,...

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More than one billion mobile users are at risk from a SIM card flaw being currently exploited by threat actors, researchers warn. A vulnerability discovered in mobile SIM cards is being actively exploited to track phone owners’ locations, intercept calls and more – all merely by sending an SMS message to victims, researchers say. Researchers on Thursday disclosed what they said is a widespread, ongoing exploit of a SIM card-based vulnerability, dubbed “SimJacker.” The glitch...

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The organization accidentally sent the names, email addresses, gender and professional information of users of its portal Agora in an email sent in August. The charity organization UNICEF inadvertently leaked the personal details of thousands of people who use its online learning portal Agora by way of an errant email sent to 20,000 inboxes. The email was accidentally sent on August 26 by UNICEF and included the names, email addresses, gender and professional information of 8,253 users of Agora,...

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A cybercriminal gang has put together a phishing campaign that utilizes several trusted sources, along with insider help from a top tier security company service to convince its victims to open and download a malicious attachment. Cofense Intelligence found the malicious actors, who are only targeting Brazilians, are extensively using trusted names, legitimate Windows services and the Cloudflare Workers to inject the Astaroth trojan with the aim of stealing banking credentials. However, despite the effort put forth by the...

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The vulnerability, now patched, is the latest in a series of bad news for Facebook. A now-patched Instagram vulnerability could have exposed users' account data and phone numbers to cyberattackers, parent company Facebook confirmed in a new report from Forbes. The bug was discovered by an Israeli hacker who goes by the handle @ZHacker13. It could have potentially been used to access user data including names, full phone numbers, and Instagram account numbers and handles...

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