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Data breach: Broward Health warns 1.3 million patients, staff of 'medical identity theft'

The hospital system says they waited months to notify victims of the breach because the Justice Department asked them to.
ZDnet 4 Jan 2022 426 Views

Detecting Evasive Malware on IoT Devices Using Electromagnetic Emanations

Cybersecurity researchers have proposed a novel approach that leverages electromagnetic field emanations from the Internet of Things (IoT) devices as a side-channel to glean precise knowledge about the different kinds of malware targeting the embedded systems, even in scenarios where obfuscation techniques have been applied...
The Hacker News 3 Jan 2022 734 Views

Microsoft releases emergency fix for Exchange year 2022 bug

This caps a rough year for the carrier after multiple data breaches.
BleepingComputer 3 Jan 2022 717 Views

APT ‘Aquatic Panda’ Targets Universities with Log4Shell Exploit Tools

Researchers from CrowdStrike disrupted an attempt by the threat group to steal industrial intelligence and military secrets from an academic institution.
Threatpost 31 Dec 2021 492 Views

T-Mobile confirms SIM swapping attacks led to breach

This caps a rough year for the carrier after multiple data breaches.
ZDnet 31 Dec 2021 477 Views

Fintech firm hit by Log4j hack refuses to pay $5 million ransom

One of the largest Vietnamese crypto trading platforms, ONUS, recently suffered a cyber attack on its payment system running a vulnerable Log4j version.
Bleeping Computer 30 Dec 2021 883 Views

RedLine malware shows why passwords shouldn't be saved in browsers

The RedLine information-stealing malware targets popular web browsers such as Chrome, Edge, and Opera, demonstrating why storing your passwords in browsers is a bad idea.
Bleeping Computer 30 Dec 2021 838 Views

That Toy You Got for Christmas Could Be Spying on You

Security flaws in the recently released Fisher-Price Chatter Bluetooth telephone can allow nearby attackers to spy on calls or communicate with children using the device.
Threatpost 29 Dec 2021 531 Views

QNAP NAS devices hit in surge of ech0raix ransomware attacks

A quarter-billion of those passwords were not seen in previous breaches that have been added to Have I Been Pwned.
BleepingComputer 28 Dec 2021 840 Views

The 5 Most-Wanted Threatpost Stories of 2021

A look back at what was hot with readers in this second year of the pandemic.
Threatpost 28 Dec 2021 473 Views