Articles tagged with Coronavirus

Indian government sites leaking patient COVID-19 test results

Multiple Indian government department websites are leaking COVID-19 lab test results for patients online. These reports uploaded by testing labs across the country as part of the national 'test, trace, isolate' efforts, expose patient's details, test site location, COVID-19 test results, dates, and the healthcare provider's info.
- Ax Sharma
- January 05, 2021
- 04:45 AM
- 0
Emotet malware strikes U.S. businesses with COVID-19 spam

The Emotet malware has begun to spam COVID-19 related emails to U.S. businesses after not being active for most of the USA pandemic.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 14, 2020
- 12:39 PM
- 0
Expired certificate led to an undercount of COVID-19 results

An expired certificate and outage led to an undercounting of COVID-19 cases reported in California after 250,00-300,000 lab results were prevented from being uploaded to California's CalREDIE reporting system.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 13, 2020
- 04:36 PM
- 1
Microsoft to resume Windows optional cumulative updates in July

Microsoft announced today that they are resuming the optional cumulative updates for Windows 10 and Windows Server version 1809 and later, in July.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 17, 2020
- 02:55 PM
- 1
New [F]Unicorn ransomware hits Italy via fake COVID-19 infection map

A new ransomware threat called [F]Unicorn has been encrypting computers in Italy by tricking victims into downloading a fake contact tracing app that promises to bring real-time updates for COVID-19 infections.
- Ionut Ilascu
- May 26, 2020
- 12:23 PM
- 0
Microsoft warns of COVID-19 phishing spreading info-stealing malware

Microsoft has discovered a new COVID-19 themed phishing campaign using economic concerns to target businesses with the LokiBot information-stealing Trojan.
- Lawrence Abrams
- May 13, 2020
- 12:00 PM
- 0
Black Hat and DEF CON security conferences go virtual due to pandemic

DEF CON and Black Hat announced today that their upcoming security conferences in Las Vegas this summer will no longer be in-person and are instead moving to an all-virtual event.
- Lawrence Abrams
- May 09, 2020
- 12:10 AM
- 0
Cyber volunteers release blocklists for 26,000 COVID-19 threats

The COVID-19 Cyber Threat Coalition has released a block list of known URLs and domain names associated with Coronavirus-themed scams, phishing attacks, and malware threats.
- Lawrence Abrams
- May 05, 2020
- 04:38 PM
- 1
Windows 10 Search now gives easy access to COVID-19 info

Windows 10 is now making it easier to access the latest Coronavirus information via new buttons show in Windows Search.
- Lawrence Abrams
- April 29, 2020
- 03:09 PM
- 0
Microsoft warns of malware surprise pushed via pirated movies

Microsoft warns that malicious actors are taking advantage of the boost in traffic seen by movie piracy sites to infect victims with malware delivered via fake movie torrents.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 28, 2020
- 05:00 PM
- 3
Researchers: 30,000% increase in pandemic-related threats

An increase of 30,000% in pandemic-related malicious attacks and malware was seen in March by security researchers at cloud security firm Zscaler when compared to the beginning of 2020 when the first threats started using COVID-19-related lures and themes.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 24, 2020
- 03:18 PM
- 0
New Coronavirus screenlocker malware is extremely annoying

A fake WiFi hacking program is being used to distribute a new Coronavirus-themed malware that tries to lock you out of Windows while making some very annoying sounds.
- Lawrence Abrams
- April 21, 2020
- 08:30 AM
- 0
FBI: Extortion scammers more active due to stay-at-home orders

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned today of an increasing number of online extortion scam reports because a lot more people are being targeted due to the "stay-at-home" orders issued during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 20, 2020
- 12:47 PM
- 0
Coronavirus Dark Web Scams: From infected blood to ventilators

The dark web has always been a cesspool of black markets and conspiracy theories, but now with the Coronavirus outbreak, scammers have a new and more desperate audience to target their scams.
- Lawrence Abrams
- April 19, 2020
- 10:15 AM
- 0
Microsoft: Trickbot in hundreds of unique COVID-19 lures per week

TrickBot is, at the moment, the malware showing up in the highest number of unique COVID-19 related malicious emails and attachments delivered to potential victims' inboxes based on Microsoft's Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) data.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 17, 2020
- 04:31 PM
- 0
Gmail blocked 18M COVID-19-themed phishing emails in a week

Google says that the malware scanners built within the Gmail free email service blocked around 18 million phishing and malware emails using COVID-19 lures within the last week.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 16, 2020
- 03:00 PM
- 1
FBI warns of ongoing COVID-19 scams targeting govt, health care

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned government agencies and health care organizations of ongoing BEC schemes exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as an overall increase in cryptocurrency and health care fraud scam activity targeting consumers.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 14, 2020
- 10:49 AM
- 0
Google reenables FTP support in Chrome due to pandemic

After disabling FTP support in Google Chrome 81, Google has decided to reenable it again to prevent outages and difficulties in accessing information during the Coronavirus pandemic.
- Lawrence Abrams
- April 13, 2020
- 05:10 PM
- 0
US consumers report $12M in COVID-19 scam losses since January

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission says that approximately $12 million were lost to Coronavirus-related scams according to consumer reports received since January 2020.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 13, 2020
- 04:50 PM
- 0
Phishing emails impersonate the White House and VP Mike Pence

Phishing scammers have started to impersonate President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in emails that distribute malware or perform extortion scams.
- Lawrence Abrams
- April 09, 2020
- 06:00 AM
- 3