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From pranks to APTs: How remote access Trojans became a major security threat

09

Nov

2020

What is a RAT? In the late 1990s, when the internet was still young, it was common for tech-savvy kids to scare their friends by controlling their PCs remotely. They would eject the CD tray, swap the mouse buttons, or change the desktop colors. To the unwitting user, it looked like a ghost was taking […]

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Hackers breach psychotherapy center, use stolen health data to blackmail patients

26

Oct

2020

News of an unusual data breach at a psychotherapy center in Finland broke over the weekend, after affected patients began receiving emails telling them to pay up or risk their personal and health data being publicly released. Therapist session notes of some 300 patients have already been published on a Tor-accessible site on the dark […]

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Cybercriminals Steal Nearly 1TB of Data from Miami-Based International Tech Firm

14

Oct

2020

Hackers have stolen nearly a terabyte of data from a Miami-based tech firm, leaking a number of the pilfered files (including full credit-card information, scans of sensitive documents such as passports, bank statements and financial documents, and even customer databases) on a Russian hacker forum. An investigation uncovered leaked data belonging to Intcomex, a very […]

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