“…nation-state actors have demonstrated intent and capability to leverage VPN services and vulnerable users for malicious purposes.”
Tag Archives: Security threats
The cryptominer that kept coming back
A Monero cryptominer made a home on an Apache Tomcat server and just wouldn’t stay away.
New Zealand’s “hacked” budget was found on a website
Police close their investigation, concluding that New Zealand’s “wellbeing” budget wasn’t hacked.
A million devices still vulnerable to ‘wormable’ RDP hole
An internet-wide scan has revealed almost one million devices vulnerable to CVE-2019-0708.
What a teen grade hacker’s confession can teach us
“We had access to the grade book. Now we could change the grades.”
Three tech-support scammers charged with ripping off the elderly
The defendants allegedly pulled in over $1.3 million over the course of about six years for unnecessary and undelivered tech support.
Researchers uncover smart padlock’s dumb security
Pen Test Partners has found some major security flaws in the Bluetooth Nokelock that consumers might like to know about.
Hackers breach US license plate scanning company
One of the US’s most widely used vehicle license plate reader (LPR) companies, Perceptics, is reportedly investigating a data breach.
Any advance on $1.2m for this virus-infested netbook?
Can you ever call malware art? That question is now up for debate as a Chinese internet artist puts a laptop full of viruses up for auction.
Cache of 49 million Instagram records found online
A security researcher has discovered a massive cache of data on millions of Instagram influencers, publicly accessible for everyone to see.