Extortion denial-of-service activity, also known as RDDoS (ransom distributed denial-of-service) attacks, have fallen significantly in the first quarter of 2022, according to statistics from Cloudflare.
During a RDDoS attack, t...
RaidForums, one of the world’s largest hacking forums, was taken down by police earlier this week. This hacking site, in operation since 2015, helped cybercriminals sell and purchase the hacked personal data of millions of innocen...
Meta (formerly Facebook) took some privacy measures last week to dissuade people from posting images that contain private residential information, while leaving room for some exceptions.
These measures were taken by Meta in an...
We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Michael Sonne, CIO of Software AG, and asked him how phishing attacks are concerning every industry.
Safety Detectives: What has your journey to your current job been?
Michael...
California-based respiratory care provider SuperCare Health has confirmed a data breach that led to the exposure of sensitive personal information for over 300,000 patients.
In a notice on its official webpage, SuperCare said i...
Google sued a scammer on Monday for allegedly running an online “puppy fraud scheme,” defrauding vulnerable people, including the elderly, out of thousands of dollars with false promises of purebred puppies.
The complaint from...
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) warned consumers on Tuesday of an increase in money recovery scams.
These scams target people who have already lost money to a previous scam by promising to help victi...
Germany’s Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) announced on Tuesday the shutdown of Hydra, one of the world’s most notorious Russian dark web marketplaces.
Since emerging in...
The SafetyDetetectives security team discovered a data breach affecting CashMama, a money lending platform based in India, which exposed a comprehensive array of customer data that was invasively collected and stored.
CashMama’...
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has spotted new phishing attempts attributed to the Russian threat group tracked as Armageddon (Gamaredon).
The malicious emails attempt to trick the recipients with dec...
