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The British drug manufacturer AstraZeneca has recently been targetted by what are suspected to be North Korean hackers, who have tried to break into their systems. AstraZeneca is one of the many pharmaceutical companies racing to release a vaccine for COVID-19. The hackers posed as recruiters for professional social networking site, LinkedIn, and the networking platform, WhatsApp, approaching AstraZeneca's staff with fake job offers. They sent out documents to the company's workforce claiming to be...

The Endemol Shine Group, an Amsterdam-based production and distribution company that produces shows such as The Voice, Big Brother and Master Chef has been hit by a ransomware attack. The ransomware gang behind the attack is DopplePaymer, who Microsoft warned the public about in November. DopplePaymer claimed responsibility for the attack with Endemol Shine being added to the claim with sample files used for confirmation. It still remains unknown how much or what data has...

A treat actor has recently stolen an unknown number of C-level executive's email passwords from across the world and is selling hundreds of them online.  The data is being sold on a closed-access forum called Exploit.in, which is primarily for Russian hackers. Both emails and passwords for Microsoft and Office 365 accounts are being sold for what are supposedly those of high-level executives, according to the hacker. Access to these kinds of accounts can be...

Months after the attack Canon publically confirmed that the cyberattack in August was caused by ransomware, and that data was stolen from servers by hackers during this attack. The attack was first reported by BleepingComputer when they found that there was a suspicious outage on cannons cloud photo storage service, image.canon, which caused users to lose files. On August 5, Canon USA released a company-wide notice informing employees of the system issues which resulted in...

The personal and health data of over 16 million Brazilian COVID-19 patients has been exposed after a hospital employee foolishly uploaded a spreadsheet or names, passwords, and access keys to sensetive government systems on GitHub. Two government databases, E-SUS-VE and Sivep-Gripe, used to store patients COVID-19 data, were among the systems exposed. The Sivep-Gripe database is used to keep track of hospitalized cases, and E-SUS-VE is used to record COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms. These two...

Entersekt has released results of its State of Online Shopping Report that examined the shopping habits of 1000 UK consumers since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Carried out by Censuswide and completed on the 6th November 2020, the study looked at consumers’ shopping behaviours, priorities when shopping online, how they make their decisions on where to shop online as well as their attitudes towards security and fraud.   The report gives retailers and Financial...

A French security research firm has accidentality discovered a zero-day vulnerability that affects the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems. The researchers found the vulnerability while they were working on updating a Windows security tool. The vulnerability can be found in two misconfigured registry keys for the DNSCache and RPC Endpoint Mapper services that are part of every Windows installation. Clément Labro, the security researchers who discovered the vulnerability have said that an...

InterSloth's 'Among Us' is one of the latest games to be hitting the world by storm, with it being popular among PC and mobile gamers alike. Cybercriminals have noted the games popularity and begun to take advantage of it, creating fake versions of the game in order to distribute malware. New research from the app protection firm Promon, who have partnered with Wultra, has shown that there are over 60 fake 'Among Us' apps masquerading...

A flaw in Xbox Live has allowed hackers to find out anyone's email address that was used for an Xbox gamertag. An anonymous hacker told Motherboard last week that they were able to discover the email addresses of anyone who had registered for an Xbox gamertag. Email addresses are linked to the gamertags by default, but this information is private. Motherboard verified the existence of the vulnerability by providing the hacker with gamertags. The hacker...