Last Friday , The University Hospital Brno in the city of Brno, Czech Republic was struck by a cyberattack. The Hospital is one of the 18 laboratories in the Czech Republic that is currently used for testing for COVID-19. The results for COVID-19 tests in the past couple of days, as a result of this […]
NordVPN, one of the most popular VPN services, has fixed a security flaw that existed in its payment systems. The vulnerability is said to have exposed customers’ email addresses and other information. The vulnerability was linked to the three payment platforms , Momo, Gocardless, and Coinpayments ; used by NordVPN. The flaw was disclosed by […]
Virgin Media admits that over 900,000 customers’ personal information were exposed after one of their marketing databases was left unsecured for over ten months since April 2019 enabling third-party access to the data. The company stated that the breach did not happen due to a hack but occurred as the database was not properly configured. […]
US-CERT issued an advisory warning users of a new critical 17-year-old remote code execution vulnerability [CVE-2020-8597] affecting the PPP daemon (pppd) software that comes installed on all Linux based operating systems. The software also powers the firmware of many other networking devices. pppd software is an implementation of Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) that helps enabling communication […]
Reportedly, researchers from the Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 team have found a phishing campaign by NetSupport manager RAT. Investigators say hackers are trying to steal information from victim’s machines through the RAT. They may also gain remote access by using this tool for other harmful activities. In short, this attack starts with phishing emails […]