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Since at least 2019, criminal hackers have been hijacking high-profile YouTube channels in a phishing scam designed to capture their cookies. According to a report by Google, which owns YouTube, more than 4,000 accounts were compromised, with attackers either selling …
A Romanian man has been jailed for 11 years after pleading guilty for his role in three cyber security scams. Adrian Mitan was charged in 2018 for conducting a money laundering scheme arising from eBay fraud, a brute-force phishing scheme …
In August, we found 84 publicly disclosed cyber attacks and data breaches, which accounted for almost 61 million breached records. You can find the full list of incidents on our sister site, but, as always, we delve into some of the …
Security researchers at Microsoft are again warning users about phishing scams imitating SharePoint. The messages use Microsoft SharePoint in the domain name, and contain a “file share” request to access bogus “Staff Reports”, “Bonuses”, “Pricebooks” and other content that appears to …
According to our figures, there were at least 86 publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks in July 2021. You can find the full list of incidents on our sister site, but as always, we delve into some of the …
Throughout the pandemic, cyber criminals have been exploiting people’s uncertainty to conduct a variety of attacks, and although we are (hopefully) reaching the end of this turmoil, attackers remain as prolific as ever. That was demonstrated again this month when …
According to our figures, there were at least 7.8 million publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2021. You can find the full list of incidents on our sister site, but as always, we delve into some of …
Earlier this month, Apache Pizza confirmed that it had suffered a data breach affecting customers’ names, addresses, contact details and encrypted passwords. In some cases, people’s passwords were also breached. The incident sparked concerns that the attackers would use the …
In a report published last week, cyber security firm Armorblox discovered two email scams that spoofed Amazon in an attempt to capture victims’ credit card details. The attackers use a technique known as ‘vishing’ – in which they direct the …
For the second month in a row, we discovered more than four publicly disclosed security incidents per day on average. According to our figures, there were at least 143 cyber attacks and data breaches in April, which accounted for than …
