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#COVID19 Vaccine Phishing Scams Surge 26% in Three Months

Vaccine-related phishing and Business Email Compromise (BEC) attempts jumped 26% in a recent three-month period, as scammers ramped up their efforts against organizations, according to Barracuda Networks.


Nine-year Malaysia Airlines breach gave attackers lots of time to misuse data

Malaysia Airlines faces the daunting task of investigating over nine years’ worth of compromised data after learning of a “data security incident” at a third-party IT service provider that exposed Enrich frequent flyer program member data from March 2010 through June 2019.


Still more questions than answers on SolarWinds attack

According to information shared by Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.), about 77 individual email accounts were accessed in the hack -- quite a small number when compared to the total number of accounts across the thousands of organizations that installed compromised SolarWinds' code.


Extortion Gang Breaches Cybersecurity Firm Qualys Using Accellion Exploit

Enterprise cloud security firm Qualys has become the latest victim to join a long list of entities to have suffered a data breach after zero-day vulnerabilities in its Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) server were exploited to steal sensitive business documents.


Hackers are going after SBI users with a scam that offers credit points worth ₹9,870

Several users of the State Bank of India (SBI) have been targeted with a phishing scam where hackers have flooded them with suspicious text messages, requesting them to redeem their SBI credit points worth Rs 9,870. 


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