Blog PonyFinal Is Another New Ransomware To Watch Out For June 8, 2020 by Vertical Axion Microsoft recently issued a security advisory about a new strain of ransomware that’s been cropping up with increasing frequency in India, Iran and the US. Called PonyFinal, one of the things that differentiates this strain from the pack is that it’s deployed in what the company describes as human-operated ransomware attacks. Most of the ransomware […] Read more » General Interest Ransomware Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Old LiveJournal Database Breach Is Now Being Leaked Online June 6, 2020 by Vertical Axion Do you have an account on LiveJournal? If so, you may have heard the persistent rumors that have been circulating since 2014 that the company was breached and some 33 million user records were stolen. To this day, LiveJournal denies that they were breached. Unfortunately, this month (May, 2020), a database containing 33,717,787 records, each […] Read more » Data Breach General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Monetary Demands Are Skyrocketing For Ransomware Decryptions June 5, 2020 by Vertical Axion Ransomware attacks have evolved quite a lot over the course of the past year, and have become one of the most visible threats organizations of all sizes face. That is, based on recently published research conducted by Group-IB, which analyzed the rapidly changing threat landscape. Their findings should disturb every business owner. Here’s a quick […] Read more » Ransomware Recent News Security
Blog Hackers Set Their Sights On Cloud Services June 3, 2020 by Vertical Axion Thanks to the pandemic, tens of millions of people are working from home. Even before then, the Cloud was experiencing a tremendous amount of growth, but since shelter in place orders were issued by many governments around the world, growth has absolutely skyrocketed. This has drawn the attention of a number of hacking groups, which […] Read more » Data Breach General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Wishbone App Database Leaked To Public By Hacker June 1, 2020 by Vertical Axion The hacking group calling themselves ‘The Shiny Hunters’ has been busy. Recently, they put databases containing user records from eleven different companies up for sale on the Dark Web, including a massive database containing some 40 million records belonging to the popular Wishbone app. Wishbone is a social media platform that’s especially popular among children. […] Read more » Data Breach General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog New Data Breach Affected Some Bank Of America Loan Applicants May 30, 2020 by Vertical Axion If you’re like many business owners, you may have recently applied for a loan through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) which was one of the COVID-19 relief funds established by the Federal government in response to the global pandemic. If you applied for that loan through Bank of America, be advised that the company recently […] Read more » Business & Finance Data Breach General Interest Recent News Security
Blog Home Chef Company Data Breach Affected 8 Million Customers May 28, 2020 by Vertical Axion Are you a Home Chef customer? If so, be advised that the company recently announced a data breach. It was discovered after the hackers who broke in sold more than 8 million user records on the Dark Web. The group, calling themselves “The Shiny Hunters” has been busy of late. They’ve been selling databases containing […] Read more » Data Breach General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Update WordPress Pagebuilder Plugin To Avoid Potential Hack May 25, 2020 by Vertical Axion Do you use SiteOrigin’s Pagebuilder plugin for WordPress? If so, you’ve got plenty of company. The intuitive, widget-based plugin has been installed more than a million times and is used by webmasters all over the world to create responsive grid pages for websites. Unfortunately, a pair of security flaws in the plugin’s code recently came […] Read more » General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Preview Now Available For Microsoft’s New Family Safety App May 22, 2020 by Vertical Axion Family safety features have been a part of the Windows 10 experience since its release, and those tools were made available on the Xbox in tandem with the release of Windows 10. You may, in fact, already be using them on your home computer and your Xbox. Unfortunately, similar protections were simply unavailable from Microsoft […] Read more » General Interest Microsoft Recent News Security
Blog Hackers Are Demanding Extra Ransomware Payments From Victims May 21, 2020 by Vertical Axion Hackers who use ransomware to conduct their attacks have a new trick up their sleeves. A ransomware family has begun employing the tactic of not only demanding payment to unlock infected systems, but also demanding an additional payment. They’re demanding an extra payment to keep them from publishing copies of the files they stole before […] Read more » Data Breach General Interest Ransomware Recent News Security Technology News
