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Phishing attack on Augusta University Health leads to breach exposing info on 400K persons
Posted by SGCS admin, 19-08-2018A phishing attack aimed at the email accounts of 24 university faculty and administrators at Augusta University Health led to the exposure of medical and personal information on about 417,000 individu...
Phishing campaign reveals new Marap downloader malware, possibly distributed by Necurs botnet
Posted by SGCS admin, 19-08-2018Researchers have linked a newly discovered downloader malware to the Necurs botnet, after it was observed in a large Aug. 10 email-based phishing campaign, targeting mostly financial organiz...
Fortnite login credentials sold on the dark web for cheap
Posted by SGCS admin, 18-08-2018Researchers at Top10 VPN have uncovered a thriving marketplace for selling U.K. gamer logins and passwords on the popular Battle Royal-esque game “Fortnite” on the dark web. While...
Black Hat USA 2018: SamSam has yielded $6M for creators
Posted by SGCS admin, 17-08-2018SamSam creators to date have raked in $6 million and the ransomware continues to be a thorn in the sides of organizations in both the public and private sectors. Peter MacKenzie, globa...
HP OfficeJet Printers bug puts entire network at risk coupled with EternalBlue
Posted by SGCS admin, 17-08-2018Critical flaws in millions of HP OfficeJet Printers will allow attackers to gain control of the printers potentially using it as a springboard into the network it's connected to. Check Point ...
Security updates issued for VMware, Samba, Internet Key Exchange, and Linux
Posted by SGCS admin, 17-08-2018US-Cert announced updates and patches for VMware, Samba, Internet Key Exchange, and Linux kernel, respectively, to address a host of vulnerabilities. The VMware security updates fixed vulnera...