Image credit: https://www.gettyimages.ca/photos/ezra-shaw-49ers After falling short in the NFL Conference Championship, the San Francisco 49ers football franchise was recently hit with another blow; but this time off the field. On February 13, 2022, the organization was reportedly a victim of a ransomware attack by BlackByte [1]. What is ransomware? Ransomware is a type of malware …
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Recently, the IRS issued an update on its partnership with ID.me. Id.me, which has been providing third-party authentication services to dozens of government agencies, received a request from the Internal Revenue Service to stop all facial recognition support for those agencies. The move is aimed at protecting users’ privacy. Facial recognition system is a kind of use …
What Happened? On Thursday, February 10th, the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) of France, declared that using Google Analytics is in violation of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This came about after the non-profit privacy advocacy organisation, None Of Your Business (NOYB) brought up privacy concerns of using this …
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What is Maze ransomware team? For ransomware Maze ransomware can be considered a trendsetter. Most of the ransomware currently available on the Internet encrypts files on the victim’s computer after infection, and then will require the victim to pay money to a designated account within a certain period of time, or the files will be …
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Recently, installers claiming to offer users an upgrade to Windows 11 have been appearing, mimicking the appearance of the official Microsoft website, but hidden behind their download buttons is a zip archive of malicious files containing a malware called RedLine. These websites appeared after the recent Microsoft announcement that they were advancing the pace of …
Stealing another person’s identity – harassment When it comes to the internet and social media, it is really easy to take someone’s identity and use it as your own. There is a chance that the victim might not even find out about the occurrence of such an event. This is really common on platforms such …
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A recent decision in France ruled that Google Analytics are in breach of section 44 of the GDPR due to international transfers in data, particularly those to the US. The commission which issued the ruling, the CNIL, expressed concerns over what would happen to the data once it entered the United States, saying that French …
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Ransomware is a type of malware that will keep an individual’s computer system hostage in exchange for something-usually money. They do this by encrypting an individual’s system such as their files and applications to deny their access until the ransom is paid. So What is The Sugar Ransomware? Sugar ransom note(Source: BleepingComputer) The Sugar ransomware …
The increase of companies transitioning to online/remote work over the past few years have led to a massive increase of companies online presence. This fast expansion has made it hard for companies to ensure there are no exploits or blind spots in their systems which has given cyber attackers a much larger area to find …
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The Roaming Mantis Android malware campaign has buzzed into Europe, quickly infesting France in particular, where there have been 66,789 downloads of the group’s specific remote access trojan (RAT) as of January. Roaming Mantis has been spreading since 2018, mostly observed in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Now, its arrival in France has resulted in …
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