Warrior Trading forced to pay $3 million for ‘misleading’ day trading scheme
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has fined Warrior Trading $3 million for operating day trading programs considered “misleading” to consumers. On April 19,...
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‘Everyone loses’: This new ransomware threatens to wipe Windows PCs if its victims don’t pay up
LokiLocker, a relatively new form of ransomware, uses the standard extortion-through-encryption racket but also incorporates disk-wiper functionality. Double extortion became a hit...
Facebook Agrees to Pay $90 Million to Settle Decade-Old Privacy Violation Case
Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a lawsuit over the company’s use of cookies to allegedly track Facebook users’ internet...
Pay to play PrivateLoader spreads Smokeloader, Redline, Vidar malware
An examination of a pay-per-install loader has highlighted its place in the deployment of popular malware strains including Smokeloader and Vidar. On Tuesday, Intel...
This company was hit with ransomware, but didn’t have to pay up. Here’s how they did it
There’s never a good time for an organisation to fall victim to a ransomware attack, but for Matthew Day, CIO of Langs Building Supplies,...
Facebook to Pay Hackers for Reporting Data Scraping Bugs and Scraped Datasets
Meta Platforms, the company formerly known as Facebook, has announced that it’s expanding its bug bounty program to start rewarding valid reports of scraping...
Google to Pay Hackers $31,337 for Exploiting Patched Linux Kernel Flaws
Google on Monday announced that it will pay security researchers to find exploits using vulnerabilities, previously remediated or otherwise, over the next three months...
Apple Pay Can be Abused to Make Contactless Payments From Locked iPhones
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed an unpatched flaw in Apple Pay that attackers could abuse to make an unauthorized Visa payment with a locked iPhone...
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Contactless Payment Card Hack Affects Apple Pay, Visa
A team of researchers has demonstrated a new attack method that affects iPhone owners who use Apple Pay and Visa payment cards. The vulnerabilities...
City of Yonkers Refuses to Pay Ransom After Attackers Demand $10 million – E Hacking News
The City of Yonkers has refused to pay the ransom after ransomware attackers demanded a ransom of $10 million to revive the disparate modules...