TTEC hit with ransomware attack, hampering work for major clients
US customer experience technology giant TTEC has announced a "cybersecurity incident" but confirmed to employees that it was hit with ransomware. TTEC sent a message to employees warning them not to click on a link titled "!RA!G!N!A!R!" The company, with nearly 61,000 employees and billions in annual revenue, sent a warning to employees this week. The Ragnar Locker ransomware group has been in the news as of late for their comments about victims who contact the police or professional negotiators.
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California Man Hacked iCloud Accounts to Steal Nude Photos
Hao Kou Chi pleaded guilty to four felonies in a hacker-for-hire scam that used socially engineered emails to trick people out of their credentials.
A California man impersonated an Apple customer support technician in a socially engineered email campaign that stole people’s iCloud passwords to break into accounts and collected upwards of 620,000 private photos and videos.
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Google and Microsoft promise billions to help bolster US cybersecurity
Tech companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft promised to help bolster US cybersecurity after a meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday. The pledges vary by company but range from spending billions on cyber infrastructure to offering supply-chain aid and education.
Wednesday’s high-profile meeting with tech CEOs comes on the heels of major cyberattacks against US government agencies and energy infrastructure like the Colonial Pipeline.
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Top 15 Vulnerabilities Attackers Exploited Millions of Times to Hack Linux Systems
Close to 14 million Linux-based systems are directly exposed to the Internet, making them a lucrative target for an array of real-world attacks that could result in the deployment of malicious web shells, coin miners, ransomware, and other trojans.
That's according to an in-depth look at the Linux threat landscape published by U.S.-Japanese cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, detailing the top threats and vulnerabilities affecting the operating system in the first half of 2021, based on data amassed from honeypots, sensors, and anonymized telemetry.
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Ransomware: These four rising gangs could be your next major cybersecurity threat
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of four emerging families of ransomware that could pose a significant cybersecurity threat to businesses.
Ransomware remains one of the key cybersecurity threats facing businesses around the world as cyber criminals try to compromise networks and encrypt them to demand ransom payments, which can amount to millions.
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38M Records Were Exposed Online —Including Contact-Tracing Info
More than a thousand web apps mistakenly exposed 38 million records on the open internet, including data from a number of Covid-19 contact tracing platforms, vaccination sign-ups, job application portals, and employee databases. The data included a range of sensitive information, from people’s phone numbers and home addresses to social security numbers and Covid-19 vaccination status.
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