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T-Mobile was breached: Here’s how to protect your account Length: 9:43 | Sep 14, 2021 T-Mobile customers should change their password and PIN and set up two-step verification to protect their accounts. Source link

Dark Web sees spike in fake COVID vaccine card sales Length: 7:24 | Sep 14, 2021 Some people would rather pay money for a phony vaccine card than get the actual shot for free, according to Check Point Research. Source link

The attorney general of Massachusetts, Maura Healey, has announced a probe into the recent data breach suffered by American telecommunications company T-Mobile. In August, the United States wireless carrier disclosed a data breach impacting around 54.6 million individuals. Data exposed in the security incident included names, addresses, birth dates, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, information from driver’s licenses, International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) numbers, and International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) numbers belonging to T-Mobile pay monthly customers and to people who applied…

Recently we observed that part of the REvil ransomware infrastructure was up and running again, now we can confirm that they hit new victims. On September 7, the servers of the REvil ransomware gang were back online after around two months since their shutdown. The circumstance was immediately noted by many researchers, me too. The dark web leak site of the ransomware gang, also known as the Happy Blog, is back online, while the site…

Microsoft addresses 60 CVEs in its September 2021 Patch Tuesday release, along with patches for a critical vulnerability in its MSHTML (Trident) engine that was first disclosed in an out-of-band advisory on September 7. 4Critical 56Important 0Moderate 0Low Microsoft patched 60 CVEs in the September 2021 Patch Tuesday release, including four CVEs rated as critical and 56 rated as important. This is the seventh time in 2021 that Microsoft has…

Well-known virtual private network (VPN) provider ExpressVPN is to be acquired by Israeli-British cybersecurity company Kape Technologies in a deal worth almost $1bn. The acquisition, which will involve $936m in shares and cash, was announced on September 13. Kape Technologies said the deal represents a “key milestone” in the booming arena of digital privacy. In a statement released Monday, Kape said that it was joining forces with ExpressVPN “to create a premium consumer privacy and security player in the…

Tag CVE Count CVEs Microsoft Edge for Android 1 CVE-2021-26439 Windows BitLocker 1 CVE-2021-38632 Microsoft Office Word 1 CVE-2021-38656 Windows Key Storage Provider 1 CVE-2021-38624 Windows Installer 2 CVE-2021-36961, CVE-2021-36962 Visual Studio 3 CVE-2021-36952, CVE-2021-26437, CVE-2021-26434 Windows Common Log File System Driver 3 CVE-2021-36955, CVE-2021-36963, CVE-2021-38633 Azure Open Management Infrastructure 4 CVE-2021-38645, CVE-2021-38647, CVE-2021-38648, CVE-2021-38649 Microsoft Office SharePoint 2 CVE-2021-38651, CVE-2021-38652 Windows Authenticode 1 CVE-2021-36959 Microsoft Windows Codecs Library 1 CVE-2021-38661 Windows Redirected Drive Buffering…

SOVA is a new Android banking trojan that targets banking applications, cryptocurrency wallets, and shopping apps from the U.S. and Spain. Researchers from cybersecurity firm ThreatFabric have spotted in the beginning of August a new Android banking trojan, dubbed SOVA, that targets banking applications, cryptocurrency wallets, and shopping apps from the U.S. and Spain. The name SOVA comes from the Russian word for owl. The malware allows attacker to gather sensitive data from infected devices,…

An information technology expert employed by a New York county has been arrested on suspicion of mining crypto-currency at work. Christopher Naples is accused of covertly installing dozens of machines throughout his workplace and using them to mine Bitcoin and other types of crypto-currency as part of a secret illegal money-making scheme.  Naples, who lives in Mattituck, New York, was hired by Suffolk County back in 2000. His current title is Assistant Manager of Information Technology Operations…