Category Security

Nine Million MCNA Dental Customers Hit by Breach

Millions of customers of America’s largest dental insurance company had their personal information compromised in a ransomware breach. MCNA Dental claims to be the nation’s largest dental insurer for government-sponsored Medicaid and CHIP programs. A notice posted on its website…

Human Error Fuels Industrial APT Attacks, Kaspersky Reports

Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has identified the main factors contributing to advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks in the industrial sector. The first is the lack of isolation in operational technology (OT) networks, described in a new report published today. Kaspersky experts…

Nigerian Cybercrime Ring’s Phishing Tactics Exposed

Tactics such as sophisticated phishing techniques and large-scale fraud schemes of Nigerian cybercrime groups have been exposed. The findings, published by ESET in a blog post released earlier today, show two key figures in the criminal enterprise, Solomon Ekunke Okupe…

DogeRAT Malware Impersonates BFSI, Entertainment, E-commerce Apps

Editorial image credit: 22 TREE HOUSE / Shutterstock.com A sophisticated malware campaign dubbed DogeRAT has been observed spoofing an Android banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), e-commerce and entertainment app. Discovered by security researchers at CloudSEK, this malicious campaign relies…

Dark Web Data Leak Exposes RaidForums Members

Details of nearly half a million members of a notorious cybercrime forum have been exposed after a major database was exposed on another hacking site. Cyber ​​Security Researcher at VX-Underground Confirmed News has surfaced that the data of over 478,000…

Retailer Database Error Leaks Over One Million Customer Records

According to WebsitePlanet, a database configuration error at a popular auto retailer exposed 1TB of records containing personal customer information. Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler tracked down records from the Philadelphia-based company Simpletire and reported the incident to the web builder…