Restaurants and food delivery services are being ripped off by a new made-to-order fraud scheme taking place on the messaging app Telegram. Research and analysis from Sift’s Digital Trust and Safety Architects found that bad actors are advertising heavily discounted food and beverage delivery services on the app’s forums. After receiving an order, the cyber-criminals pay with stolen credentials obtained from data breaches and cyber-attacks or leverage a hacked account with stored value to pay for…

Pinellas Sheriff revealed that attackers tried to raise levels of sodium hydroxide, by a factor of more than 100, in the Oldsmar’s water supply. The scenario described by Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri is disconcerting, an attacker attempted to raise levels of sodium hydroxide, also known as lye, by a factor of more than 100, in Oldsmar’s water supply. The ingestion of water with high level of sodium hydroxide can be fatal. The incident took place…

Cybersecurity insurance can compensate you in the event of a cyberattack. But how do you determine the right policy for your needs? Image: Duncan_Andison, Getty Images/iStockphoto A successful cyberattack can harm your organization in a variety of ways. Data loss. Business disruption. Lost productivity. Regulatory fines. Brand or reputation damage. Ultimately, these can all impact your organization financially. SEE: How to become a cybersecurity pro: A cheat sheet (TechRepublic) With the threat of cyberattack always looming, one…

Total vulnerability disclosures for 2020 are on track to exceed the previous year’s figures, with a large percentage not recorded in the official National Vulnerability Database (NVD), according to Risk Based Security. The security vendor’s 2020 Year End Vulnerability QuickView Report recorded 23,269 bugs last year, although there may still be some left to come in. “Organizations should be aware that … 1917 have a public exploit, are remotely exploitable, and do not have a…

Security experts have warned of an increase in published vulnerabilities which are relatively easy to exploit and require no user interaction. Managed security service provider Redscan’s latest report, NIST Security Vulnerability Trends in 2020: An Analysis, takes a look back at the 18,000+ CVEs recorded in NIST’s National Vulnerability Database (NVD). Aside from the fact that more CVEs were reported in 2020 than any year previously, a fact Infosecurity reported on in December, it raised…