John Maddison, EVP of products and solutions, Fortinet, says that  the challenge of securing our networks is accelerating, primarily in direct response to digital transformation efforts that are expanding the attack surface. Cybercriminals are all too eager to exploit new attack vectors and take advantage of new limitations in our visibility andRead More…

An international cybercrime group has attacked the networks of three unnamed US-based antivirus firms and stolen approximately 30 terabytes of data. The group is offering to sell the data, as well as access to the company networks for a sum of $300,000. As first reported by Ars Technica, the “boutique cybersecurityRead More…

A massive fraud let scammers steal money from Amazon merchants for a six-month period in 2018, the online retailer revealed. Almost a 100 accounts of merchants who sell their products via Amazon were affected, a report from Bloomberg said. The report added that the scammers changed bank details on AmazonRead More…

A VPN software named ”Pirate Chick” is being installed by Adware bundles, which connects to a remote server to download and install malicious payloads such the AZORult password-stealing Trojan. Since adware bundles need to look as legitimate as possible, they require offers that they promote to have legitimate web sites with privacyRead More…

Officials at Qihoo 360, a leading Chinese cybersecurity firm, have revealed an ongoing credit card scam that steals the card payment information of thousands of customers visiting leading e-commerce websites. Researchers discovered that attackers have been injecting malicious JS scripts hosted on a malicious domain, www.magento-analytics [.] com, onto onlineRead More…