The National Security Agency in the United States of America has revealed that Russian cyber actors from the GRU Main Center for Special Technologies have been exploiting a vulnerability in Exim Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) software since at least August 2019. The cyber actors responsible for this malicious cyber programme are known publicly as the […]

The team behind the Joomla open source content management system (CMS) has announced a security breach. The incident took place after a member of the Joomla Resources Directory (JRD) team left a full backup of the JRD on an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket owned by their own company. Data potentially affected included full name, […]

Barracuda researchers have seen a steady increase in the number of COVID-19-related email attacks since January, but they have observed a recent spike in this type of attack – up 667% since the end of February. Between March 1 and March 23, Barracuda Sentinel has detected 467,825 spear phishing email attacks and 9,116 of those […]

Public Health England (PHE) will keep personally identifiable information collected by NHS Test and Trace of people with COVID-19 symptoms for 20 years. The privacy notice from PHE also says it will keep the personally identifiable information collected on the contacts of people with COVID-19 but who do not have symptoms for five years. Youngjin […]

EasyJet, a European aviation giant, has announced that it has experienced an extremely sophisticated cyberattack affecting over 9 million of its customers. A total of 2,208 customers have also had their credit card details ‘accessed’, and email addresses and travel details have been stolen. The airline said in a statement: “As soon as we became […]

It was recently reported that Google has malware scanners built within the Gmail free email service which has blocked around 18 million phishing and malware emails using COVID-19 lures within one week. Gmail Security PM Neil Kumaran and G Suite and GCP Lead Security PM Sam Lugani explained: “During the last week, we saw 18 million daily malware and phishing […]

Cyber experts have launched measures to protect the UK from online harm as the country continues to rely more on technology while staying at home to protect the NHS and save lives. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a part of GCHQ, launched the cross-governmental ‘Cyber Aware’ campaign, which offers actionable advice for people to […]

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO has seen a dramatic increase in the number of cyberattacks directed at its staff and email scams targeting the public.  Some 450 active WHO email addresses and passwords were leaked online along with thousands belonging to others working on the novel coronavirus response.  The leaked credentials did […]

Zoom Video Communications, Inc has announced robust security enhancements with the upcoming general availability of Zoom 5.0, a key milestone in the company’s 90-day plan to proactively identify, address and enhance the security and privacy capabilities of its platform. Zoom, which has soared to 200 million daily users from 10 million in less than three […]

Smart cameras and baby monitors can be watched by criminals over the internet by default, security chiefs have warned. The National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC) is advising people to tweak the settings after buying them. Easy-to-guess default passwords might let a hacker secretly observe a home through connected devices, it said. Gavin Millard, VP of Intelligence […]