CyberSec Roundup – 24th March, 2025
CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News Ransomware in Converters The FBI confirmed that fake file converter tools are being used by cybercriminals to distribute ransomware. Threat actors are disguising malware as legitimate document and image conversion tools, tricking users into installing these harmful programs. There are also online converters that scrape[…]
CyberSec Roundup – 17th February, 2025
CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News Dangerous Games Gamers use official launchers like Steam to ensure they download games that are virus free, however the PirateFi game on Steam has been caught installing password-stealing malware onto users’ computers. The game was up for a week before Steam detected the game contained[…]
CyberSec Roundup – 20th January, 2025
CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News Path of Exile 2 Accounts Hacked Threat actors exploited a compromised Path of Exile 2 admin account to hijack over 66 player accounts. Developers confirmed that this breach allowed attackers to reset passwords, gain access to sensitive player information, and disrupt the gaming community. Grinding[…]
CyberSec Roundup – 10th September, 2024
CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News Transport for London Hacked London’s transportation authority confirmed it suffered a cyberattack that has prevented its staff from performing some customer service duties. Despite these issues, the transport network remains fully operational. The incident is being investigated, but so far, it does not appear that[…]
July 22, 2024
CyberSec Roundup – 22nd July, 2024
CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News Y2K in 2024 Fears at the turn of the century of a major computer outage due to the Y2K bug were realized for many last Friday when Windows computers worldwide suddenly got stuck at a “Blue Screen of Death” and were unable to boot up. […]
June 3, 2024
CyberSec Roundup – 3rd June, 2024
CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News Ticketmaster Breach Affects 560m Ticketmaster confirmed the company suffered a breach via a 3rd party cloud storage provider (Snowflake) in late May. The threat actor, known as Shiny Hunters, stole 1.3TB of information including personal information for 560 million customers, by hacking a Snowflake’s employee[…]
May 13, 2024
CyberSec Roundup – 13th May, 2024
CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News 49m Dell Customers Exposed Dell suffered a cyberattack that led to information for 49 million customers being stolen. The threat actor known as Menelik took credit for the attack and posted the stolen information on the dark web, which included names and addresses of customers[…]
April 7, 2024
CyberSec Roundup – 11th April, 2024
CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News US Government Contractor Breached Acuity, a contractor that provides DevSecOps services to the U.S. Department of State, appeared to have recently suffered a cyber-attack. Investigations are underway as a threat actor claims to have stolen data from Acuity that contains the personal information of government,[…]
March 27, 2024
CyberSec Roundup – 27th March, 2024
CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News Cayman Avoids Breach In February the Cayman Islands Government was hit with a cyber-attack but none of its systems were compromised nor data exposed, according to the Cyber Security Office. This claim was backed up by an independent review conducted by Deloitte. The company is[…]
March 12, 2024
CyberSec Roundup – 12th March, 2024
CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News Roku Confirms Breach Roku confirmed it suffered a cyberattack that exposed the accounts of over 15,000 customers. This was a credential stuffing attack, where customers used the same passwords for multiple services, and credentials from another breach were used to access the Roku accounts. Roku’s[…]
