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A Walmart phishing campaign is underway that attempts to steal your personal information and verifies your email for further phishing attacks.

The INTERPOL (short for International Criminal Police Organisation) has intercepted $83 million belonging to victims of online financial crime from being transferred to the accounts of their attackers.

Access to Mexicos Lotería Nacional and Pronósticos lottery websites are now blocked to IP addresses outside of Mexico after a ransomware gang threatened to perform denial of service attacks.

Microsoft states that a Russian hacking group used four new malware families in recent phishing attacks impersonating the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Recently, two highly publicized ransomware victims received a decryptor that was too slow to make it effective in quickly restoring the victims network.

Justin Sean Johnson, a 30-year-old from Detroit, Michigan, has pleaded guilty to stealing the personally identifiable information (PII) of 65,000 employees of health care provider and insurer University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and selling it on the dark web.

The new group policies coming to Windows 10 21H2 By 05:08 PM As Microsoft continues to develop the Windows 10 21H2 feature update, we can use the preview builds to get a glimpse of the upcoming features, changes, and new group policies coming to the operating system this fall. Microsoft just released Windows 10 21H1 last week, but it was not met with much fanfare as it is not a very exciting release. Windows 10 21H2, also known as the Sun Valley update, is poised to be a much more feature-ri...

Iranian hacking group targets Israel with wiper disguised as ransomware By 11:00 AM An Iranian hacking group has been observed camouflaging destructive attacks against Israeli targets as ransomware attacks while maintaining access to victims networks for months in what looks like an extensive espionage campaign. The threat actor, tracked as  Agrius by SentinelLabs researchers, has targeted Israel starting with December 2020. "Initially engaged in espionage activity, Agrius deployed a set of ...

Microsoft has officially confirmed that it has paused the development of Windows 10X, its Chrome OS competitor for single-screen and dual-screen devices.

North Korean hackers behind CryptoCore multi-million dollar heists By 10:02 AM Security researchers piecing together evidence from multiple attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges, attributed to a threat actor they named CryptoCore have established a strong connection to the North Korean state-sponsored group Lazarus. The group is believed to have stolen hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars by breaching cryptocurrency exchanges in the U.S., Israel, Europe, and Japan over the past three years. Long...