In June’s edition of cybersecurity news headlines, we discuss two data leaks, a ransomware attack, and an update on the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack. Data of 3.3 million Volkswagen/Audi customers and 700 million LinkedIn users exposed in separate data leaks, meat provider JBS suffers a ransomware attack, and part of the ransomware paid by Colonial Pipeline retrieved by authorities. These are…
Personal information of around 700 million LinkedIn users has been found being sold on the dark web. The information includes full names, email addresses, phone numbers, gender, physical addresses, and other data. The leak comes mere months after the information of 500 million LinkedIn users was sold on a hacker forum.
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FastBrowser.cob is a site that would be set as your homepage if a particular browser hijacker installs on your computer. While relatively harmless, browser hijackers mainly try to expose users to as much sponsored content as possible. And they do that by pushing questionable search engines onto users and inserting sponsored content into search results.
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Aroundably.website is one of many identical websites that try to trick users into agreeing to be spammed with ads. You will see a notification that says “Aroundably.website wants to show notifications” when you get redirected to the site. If you click “Allow”, you will see ads on your desktop.
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Greatested.website is a fake video game news website that tries to trick users into allowing advertisements on their desktops. It does so by misusing a legitimate browser feature that allows websites to show users notifications on their desktops. But instead of useful content, sites like Greatested.website simply spam desktops with advertisements.
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Wholerable.website is a fake news website that tries to trick you into agreeing to see ads on your desktop. It does that by misusing a legitimate browser feature that allows sites with permission to show users notifications that appear on the desktop. If you are shown a notification that says “Wholerable.website wants to show notifications”, do not press “Allow” because…
If Mountainbrowse.com loads every time you open your browser, your computer is likely infected with a browser hijacker. The infections will make unwanted changes to your browser, try to redirect you to sponsored websites to generate traffic and revenue, and collect information related to your browsing. It’s not a harmful infection but you still need to remove Mountainbrowse.com sooner rather than later.
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A report by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has revealed that in a span of 8 months, people have lost over $80 million to cryptocurrency investment scams. Compared to last year, the reported losses have increased nearly 1000%. The numbers, while extremely worrying, are not particularly surprising. The cryptocurrency buzz over the last couple of years has attracted a lot…