Month: December 2024


  • Unmasking online threats – How a VPN ensures security and safety

    * ![Category](https://www.onlinethreatalerts.com/images/icon-225.png) [Useful – Informative](/categories/useful-informative/) Unmasking online threats — How a VPN ensures security and safety=================================================================* ![Comments](https://www.onlinethreatalerts.com/images/comment4.png) 0 0* ![OTA](https://www.onlinethreatalerts.com/images/eye.png)…


  • Is Foodaki a Scam? Wishing You a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

    * ![Category](https://www.onlinethreatalerts.com/images/icon-225.png) [Spamming – Adware](/categories/spamming-adware/) Is Foodaki a Scam? Wishing You a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year===================================================================* ![Comments](https://www.onlinethreatalerts.com/images/comment4.png) 0…


  • Graces Bags Scam Online Store

    * ![Category](https://www.onlinethreatalerts.com/images/icon-225.png) [Scamming – Fraud](/categories/phishing-scamming-fraud-identity-theft/) Graces Bags Scam Online Store=============================* ![Comments](https://www.onlinethreatalerts.com/images/comment4.png) 0 0* ![OTA](https://www.onlinethreatalerts.com/images/eye.png) 0* ![Like](https://www.onlinethreatalerts.com/images/thumbup.png) 0 * ![Date published](https://www.onlinethreatalerts.com/images/history.png)…


  • HIPAA to be updated with cybersecurity regulations, White House says

    ![HHS building, Washington, D.C.](https://cms.therecord.media/uploads/format_webp/small_Department_of_Health_and_Human_Services_Sarah_Stierch_5eb1bcc7a0.jpg?w=3840)Image: Sarah Stierch / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 4.0 [Jonathan Greig](/author/jonathan-greig)December 27th, 2024 HIPAA to be…


  • Biden administration finalizes rule to block sale of Americans’ bulk data to adversaries

    ![department of justice](https://cms.therecord.media/uploads/format_webp/small_doj_fce07455a8.jpg?w=3840)Image: Paul Campbell via Unsplash+/DOJ [Joe Warminsky](/author/joe-warminsky)December 27th, 2024 Biden administration finalizes rule to block sale of Americans’…


  • Ninth US Telecom Breached by Chinese Hackers – Texts & Calls Records Stolen

    The White House has confirmed that a [ninth](https://cybersecuritynews.com/chinese-salt-typhoon-hacked-8-telecoms/) U.S. telecommunications company has fallen victim to the ‘Salt Typhoon’ campaign, a…


  • Attacks by APTC60 Group Exploiting Legitimate Services

    The APT-C-60 group targeted organizations in Japan and East Asia with a sophisticated attack campaign. The attack begins with a…


  • Gaming Engines: An Undetected Playground for Malware Loaders

    Check Point Research uncovered a new technique exploiting the Godot Engine to execute malicious GDScript code, remaining undetected by most…


  • Brazilian Hacker Charged for Extorting $3.2M in Bitcoin After Breaching 300,000 Accounts

    ![Brazilian Hacker](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1vwRDVwMIVPzXK6J__e_rA7_1IXIoTuNz8XVEJqmWLj23PqFWfocs0OZux0juSX1p2HKJmbfglsp3P8bJzrKz2qTyX-pKkRL0ECG7YzSg1K01R8EJeRfLFMrmG6wwdYQTdlAwdXl4EBdLfMOSa_94yxOGOWesa7YTtgq7S976RQauoLUnnqcLCgsZ01pT/s728-rw-e365/brazil.png ‘Brazilian Hacker’)A Brazilian citizen has been charged in the United States for allegedly threatening to release data stolen…


  • A new Mirai botnet variant targets DigiEver DS-2105 Pro DVRs

    Akamai researchers discovered a new Mirai botnet variant targeting a vulnerability in DigiEver DS-2105 Pro DVRs.—————————————————————————————————————-Akamai researchers spotted a [Mirai](https://securityaffairs.com/50929/malware/linux-mirai-elf.html)-based…