Cybercrime & Digital Threats

The ThemeGrill Demo Importer plugin was found to leave nearly 100,000 WordPress websites vulnerable to threats.

The fake cards, looking like club membership cards from major retail stores, have barcodes that hide credit card details.

The hacked email account of a finance employee was exploited to steal millions of dollars from the Puerto Rico government.

Fake dating apps were cited as one of the most notable sources of #malware in Africa, with 7,000 attacks detected in 2019.

Before, the Emotet malware mostly spread through spam campaigns. Now, it can also propagate via Wi-Fi.

Over 30K records of US inmates were inadvertently exposed through a leaky AWS S3 cloud storage bucket.

In a quest to clamp down on synthetic and manipulated media, Youtube and Twitter ban deepfakes.

Trend Micro researchers detect a spam campaign targeting South Korea. Cybercriminals send out emails written as a notice from the Korean Fair Trade Commission.

Trickbot and Emotet were concealed by using text from articles about #Trump and placing them in the file metadata.