The Sydney Morning Herald |
Nearly 20000 Australians caught up in massive Bupa Global data breach
The Sydney Morning Herald "It is important to point out that this was not a cyber attack or external data breach. It was deliberate act by an employee in the UK who had no access to customer data for the Bupa Australia Health Insurance business, which is kept on separate … |
Techtree.com |
Nearly 36.5 Million Android Devices Affected By Judy Malware
Techtree.com Just when our systems suffered from a ransomware attack, it looks like the bad luck hit our smartphones as well. Nearly 36.5 million Android users may have been affected lately via Google Play, thanks to Judy Malware. According to researchers at … The Judy Malware: Possibly the largest malware campaign found on Google Play | Check Point Blog Google Just Killed What Might Be The Biggest Android Ad Fraud Ever PROTON – A New MAC OS RAT – Sixgill |
The Hajime botnet is nearly 300,000 strong, making it a latent threat nearly as powerful as the notorious Mirai botnet that devastated high-profile websites last fall, leading some to think the internet had been broken.
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab lured devices infected with the Hajime worm to announce themselves to a Kaspersky honeypot, checked out whether they were actually infected and added them up. They came up with the number 297,499, says Igor Soumenkov, principal researcher at Kaspersky Lab.
An earlier estimate by Symantec put the size at tens of thousands. Estimates of the number of infected devices in Mirai botnets have put it about 400,000, but the number of devices that might be infected with the Hajime worm is 1.5 million, says Dale Drew, the CSO of Level 3, which has been building a profile of behavioral classifiers to identify it so it can be blocked.
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KCCI Des Moines |
Iowa Veterans Home warns nearly 3000 of data breach
KCCI Des Moines The Iowa Veterans Home announced Friday that it is beginning to notify 2,969 people of a data breach that may have exposed their medical and financial information. Advertisement. According to a release from the IVH, Google and the state of Iowa were … |