Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Security News

PCI DSS Version 3.2.1 Released – Changes that You Need to Know About PCI Data Security

PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) published PCI DSS Version 3.2.1 with minor revision to the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which businesses...

Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison For Launching DDoS Attacks on Companies Websites that Declined to Hire Him

A Man From New Mexico sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for DDoS Attacks on various victims including  business competitors , prior employers and public services.A DDoS attack is...

Android Gamers Beware of Fake Fortnite Game that Contains Spyware and Cryptocurrency Miner

Android malware posing as Fake Fortnite Game includes spyware, cryptocurrency miner and install unwanted apps that show ads to generate revenue for authors. Epic...

Mexican central bank Says that Hackers Stole Millions of Dollars from Mexico Banks

Mexican central bank confirms that hackers transferred more than $15 million from their domestic banks. The attack was detected in April and the central...

Google to Remove Green Secure Indicator for HTTPS Pages

Google made an announcement earlier today that they are to remove the security indicators for HTTPS pages starting from the Chrome version 69 that...

Law Enforcement Agencies Shutdown a Marketplace that Renting out servers for Hackers

MaxiDed the marketplace that provides servers for child pornography sites, Command-and-control servers, sending spam messages and for DOS attacks was takedown in conjunction with...

3 Million Facebook Users Highly Sensitive Data Leaked by Personality App, called myPersonality in Last 4 Years

Sensitive data that collected from Facebook by personality app, called myPersonality Exposed 3 million Facebook users data online that can be accessed by anyone...

Hackers Use Old UPnP Protocol Exploit to Launch Heavy Bandwidth DDoS Attacks

Attackers could use the UPnP protocol exploit to bypass the DDoS mitigation solutions and to perform a heavy DDoS amplification attack. Imperva published a...