Socially engineered BEC attacks using X-rated material spike 974 percent. Becky Bracken reports: Attackers have amped up their use of X-rated phishing lures in business email compromise (BEC) attacks. A new report found a stunning 974-percent spike in social-engineering scams involving suggestive materials, usually aimed at male-sounding names within a company. The Threat Intelligence team…
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Security flaws found in Samsung’s stock mobile apps
Zack Whittaker reports: A mobile security startup has found seven security flaws in Samsung’s pre-installed mobile apps, which it says if abused could have allowed attackers broad access to a victim’s personal data. Oversecured said the vulnerabilities were found in several apps and components bundled with Samsung phones and tablets. Oversecured founder Sergey Toshin told…
Hackers Steal Wealth of Data from Game Giant EA
Joseph Cox reports: Hackers have broken into gaming giant Electronic Arts, the publisher of Battlefield, FIFA, and The Sims, and stole a wealth of game source code and related internal tools, Motherboard has learned. “You have full capability of exploiting on all EA services,” the hackers claimed in various posts on underground hacking forums viewed…
NY: Arnoff Moving & Storage data breach revealed customer information: What we know
Saba Ali reports: Arnoff Moving & Storage customers may have had their data stolen by hackers as part of a breach, the company said. The company could not say how many customers may have been impacted, how long ago the data may be from, or if the breach was limited to its regional Mid Hudson…
Computer memory maker ADATA hit by Ragnar Locker ransomware
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Taiwan-based leading memory and storage manufacturer ADATA says that a ransomware attack forced it to take systems offline after hitting its network in late May. ADATA manufactures high-performance DRAM memory modules, NAND Flash memory cards, and other products, including mobile accessories, gaming products, electric power trains, and industrial solutions. Read more on…
Meat processor JBS paid $11 million in ransom to hackers.
Rebecca Robbins reports: The world’s largest meat processor said on Wednesday that it paid an $11 million ransom in Bitcoin to the hackers behind an attack that forced the shutdown last week of all the company’s U.S. beef plants and disrupted operations at poultry and pork plants. The company, JBS, said in a statement that the decision…