Jodie Lauren Smith

There's a new phishing scam circulating in which the victim receives an email claiming that undelivered mail is being held for them on their Outlook Web Mail service. The email will have the subject line "Notifications | undelivered emails to your inbox". The email body contains a table of undelivered emails including the date of the…

An anonymous hacker going by the alias "SandboxEscaper" has published 3 Microsoft exploits in the last 24 hours. The bug hunter has published a total of 7 exploits in the last year. On Wednesday 22 May, SandboxEscaper published details of a Windows 10 zero-day exploit that allows for local privilege escalation (LPE).  LPE vulnerabilities can be…

Popular Chinese messaging and social media app, WeChat, is a hotspot for scammers looking to exploit victims out of money. There are different types of scams perpetrated on the WeChat platform such as romance scams, job scams, and even a scam that results in physical mugging. About WeChat WeChat is a Chinese messaging and social media app that…

Google is now granting users more control over their location data by introducing an auto-delete feature. This privacy feature, if enabled, allows users to automatically delete their location history as well as web and app activity data at regular time intervals. Although most of us use Google products and enjoy them, users have long been…

An unprotected Elasticsearch server was left exposed to the internet and has leaked the personal information of approximately 85% of Panama's citizens. The Elasticsearch server was connected to the internet, with no password or firewall and was hosted on Amazon AWS. The server was discovered by Security Discovery researcher Bob Diachenko who…

In a press release dated on Thursday 9  May, the US Department of Justice announced charges against 9 people for stealing approximately $2.5 million in cryptocurrency through sim swapping hacks. Of the nine individuals, six of them (five Americans and one Irish national) are members of a hacking group called "The Community". The other three…

The Israel Defense Force (IDF) says they have "thwarted an attempted Hamas cyber offensive against Israeli targets". The IDF claims they identified and stopped the attempted cyber attack by finding the hackers and responding with military force. This is believed to be the first time a military has taken physical action against an imminent cyber…

An ongoing attack is targeting Electrum bitcoin wallets and causing huge devastation. The number of infected Electrum bitcoin wallets has now reached a record 152,000 after an ongoing Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack on its servers. The anti-malware firm, Malwarebytes reported on the 152,000 infected wallets and $4.6 million stolen funds in their…

Emotet trojans are the most common trojan in the healthcare industry and trojans account for close to 80% of malware affecting healthcare computer systems. The Emotet banking trojan was first identified in 2014 by cybersecurity researchers. The malware is designed to steal sensitive information from computer systems and can often evade…

In another surprising turn of events in the Facebook privacy issues saga, Russia has fined Facebook 3,000 rubles, or around $47, for non-compliance with the country's Data Localization law. You were probably expecting to see a couple of zeros on the end of that $47, but no, bizarrely this is the amount Russia had decided to fine the social media…