Month: March 2020

Your home router is vulnerable to attacks as soon as you take it out of the box. For almost a week, a group of hackers has been breaking into people’s routers and changing DNS settings in order to point unsuspecting device users to -related sites pushing malware. The attacks have currently targeted D-Link and Linksys …

Ohio-based LTI Power Systems was the victim of a ransomware data breach in which hackers accessed schematics and drawings related to Ameren Missouri operations at two power plants. Ameren told Utility Dive the stolen data was “not confidential information related to our critical or customer operations.” The energy sector faces a growing cyber threat, increasingly …

Although many legitimate mobile applications designed to help people track and monitor symptoms of the Covid-19 coronavirus are beginning to reach the market, analysis of Android telemetry from Google Play and other third-party marketplaces has revealed that both relatively harmless opportunist developers and malicious cyber criminals have climbed on board the bandwagon. Link: Coronavirus: Be …

Preying on public fears, the ongoing coronavirus outbreak is proving to be a goldmine of opportunity for attackers to stage a variety of malware attacks, phishing campaigns, and create scam sites and malicious tracker apps.Now in a fresh twist, third-party Android app developers too have begun to… Link: Watch Out: Android Apps in Google Play …

The World Health Organization has been attacked by hackers. WHO CIO Flavio Aggio (pictured) says his team has so far fended off the attacks, but the rate has “more than doubled.” And WHO is not alone. Ransomware scum continue to target hospitals around the world. Their timing couldn’t be worse. This is serious. Link: World …