What is Rayban Instagram Virus
Rayban Instagram Virus refers a scam on Instagram that promotes fake deals on Ray Ban glasses. It’s not exactly a virus, but it’s often referred to as such by users, and thus we will call it that in this report as well.…
This month’s edition of cybersecurity news headlines covers 4 different stories. UK government decides not to proceed with age verification for online pornography, UniCredit suffers a data breach exposing 3 million customer records, Facebook withdraws appeal and agrees to pay £500,000 for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and 3.1 million Indian cards dumped on Joker’s Stash.…
This month’s edition of cybersecurity news headlines is all about data breaches and leaks. Food delivery service DoorDash suffered a data breach affecting 4.9 million users, the majority of Ecuador’s population had their data leaked, 419 million Facebook users’ phone numbers stored on an unsecured database, and two Lion Air companies suffer breach involving 35 million customers.…
What is Save yourself email scam
Save yourself email scam is one of those scam emails that threaten to expose videos of you unless you agree to pay money. They’re often called sextortion emails because they threaten to expose sex-related videos of users if a payment is not made. These emails are scams but it’s understandable if they are convincing to…
Cybersecurity news headlines for August 1-31, 2019
August’s edition of cybersecurity news headlines is here, and we have three stories to report on. It’s a short one this month but nothing too major happened. 22 Texas cities were hit with a coordinated ransomware attack, dating app 3Fun leaked users’ precise location data and personal information, and legitimate app CamScanner was found…
What is Dropbox virus?
Dropbox virus is a term used to refer to different threats that in some way use the name of the legitimate application to perform their malign actions. Dropbox itself is a file hosting application that was developed in 2007 and belongs to the Dropbox Inc. It is a rather popular platform used to store users’ photos, videos,…
Tumbler is a popular blogging and social networking website that allows users to post various content and follow other users’ blogs. As you may already know, the more popular a service is, the more likely its name is to be used by cyber criminals. There are different scams and malicious programs that target Tumbr user accounts aiming to steal personal…
Cybersecurity news headlines [1-31 July, 2019]
It’s been a while since our last cybersecurity news headline report, but in this July edition we report on a huge data breach involving 5 million Bulgarian citizens, Equifax finally settling for the 2017 data breach, Facebook being fined a record-breaking $5 billion for its inability to protect user data, a Capital One breach compromising…
Hacking Bitcoin Mining Pools and Exchanges
Hacking a Bitcoin mining pool can be useful to crooks as the process involves using the processing power of a group of Bitcoin miners for one’s own benefit. However, doing so is a complicated process. The hackers need to target ISPs and compromise the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) service, which connects different networks. By compromising…
When talking about Google virus, it’s not one specific virus but rather a number of different infections that are mentioned. Google doesn’t have anything to do with the viruses, but cyber crooks like to use the name to make their scams seem more legitimate. The different Google viruses you can commonly encounter include: “You have won a Google gift/Google Membership…