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Iranian hackers charged with hacking Trump campaign to ‘stoke discord’
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The U.S. Department of Justice announced criminal charges against three hackers working for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), accusing the trio of a four-year-long hacking campaign that included this year’s hack of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. On Friday, U.S. prosecutors published an indictment accusing Masoud Jalili, Seyyed Ali Aghamiri, and Yasar (Yaser) Balaghi of targeting the…
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Faulty CrowdStrike update causes major global IT outage, taking out banks, airlines and businesses globally
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Image Credits: oxygen / Getty ImagesBusinesses across the world are reporting IT outages, including Windows “blue screen of death” errors on their computers, in what has already become one of the most widespread IT disruptions in recent years. The outage — linked to a software update from popular cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike — has affected computers…
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AT&T says criminals stole phone records of ‘nearly all’ customers in new data breach
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Stolen data includes millions of AT&T customer phone numbers, calling and text records, and location-related data. Image Credits: Mark Makela / Getty Images U.S. phone giant AT&T confirmed Friday it will begin notifying millions of consumers about a fresh data breach that allowed cybercriminals to steal the phone records of “nearly all” of its customers, a…
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SCAM OF THE WEEK: Watch Out for Phishy Facebook Messages
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SCAM OF THE WEEK: Watch Out for Phishy Facebook Messages In a new scam, cybercriminals have been using compromised Facebook accounts to send links to fake login pages. This scam is gaining popularity, with over eight million people viewing just one of the phishing pages so far this year. In this scam, cybercriminals hack users’…
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SCAM OF THE WEEK: Your Next Notification Could Be a “Smishal” Delivery!
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SCAM OF THE WEEK: Your Next Notification Could Be a “Smishal” Delivery! UK residents are targets of a recent smishing (SMS Phishing) scam. In this scam, cybercriminals impersonate the home delivery company, Evri through fake failed delivery text messages that include a link to reschedule the delivery. The link included in these fake delivery notifications…