Zack Whittaker reports: Cybercriminals are already capitalizing on Twitter’s ongoing verification chaos by sending phishing emails designed to steal the passwords of unwitting users. The phishing email campaign, seen by TechCrunch, attempts to lure Twitter users into posting their username and password on an attacker’s website disguised as a Twitter help form. Read more at TechCrunch.
Category: Business Sector
Serious breach of cellphone users’ data
The News (Pakistan) reports: The personal data of the subscribers of the telecom companies operating in Pakistan has once again been seriously compromised as various mobile applications and web portals are providing access to individual subscribers’ data on the internet. Recently, a video of a mobile application named ‘Asan Bash’ went viral on social media claiming…
Bed Bath & Beyond reviewing possible data breach (UPDATED)
Reuters reports: Bed Bath & Beyond Inc said on Friday a third party had this month improperly accessed its data through a phishing scam by accessing the hard drive and certain shared drives of one of its employees. The big-box retailer said it was reviewing the data that was accessed so it can determine whether…
Amazon accidentally exposed an internal server packed with Prime Video viewing habits
Zack Whittaker reports: It feels like every other day another tech startup is caught red-faced spilling reams of data across the internet because of a lapse in security. But even for technology giants like Amazon, it’s easy to make mistakes. Security researcher Anurag Sen found a database packed with Amazon Prime viewing habits stored on an internal Amazon server that…
Aurubis says it was target of cyberattack
Reuters reports: Aurubis, Europe’s biggest copper smelter, said it had been the target of a cyberattack overnight that has forced it to shut down its IT systems and disconnect them from the internet. “The IT systems are currently being examined,” Aurubis said on Friday, adding that it was reviewing the scope of the impact. Read…
FTX to give a ‘one-time’ $6M compensation to phishing victims
Jesse Coghlan reports: Cryptocurrency exchange FTX will provide around $6 million in compensation to victims of a phishing scam that allowed hackers to conduct unauthorized trades on certain FTX users’ accounts. FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried posted in a Twitter thread on Oct. 23 that the exchange generally doesn’t award compensation to its users “phished by fake versions of…