Ransomware

Five Mexican financial institutions have lost as much as $20 million in bogus money transfers that appear to be the work of cyber gangsters.

Cybersecurity services firm Proofpoint detects Vega Stealer malware that targets credentials & credit cards in Google Chrome & Firefox Web browsers & steals user documents.

Chili's Grill & Bar experiences a "data incident" that exposes some of its customers' credit & debit card numbers, names & other payment card information.

Equifax admits passport information belonging to 3,200 Americans was among the 150 million records it left exposed in a massive security breach last year.

Two-factor authentication (2FA) can be weaponized to launch a cyberattack against any website, according to white hat hacker Kevin Mitnick and security awareness training platform provider KnowBe4.

Access Group Education Lending, a student loan services company, has told some 16,500 borrowers that their personal data had been mistakenly sent by one of its vendors to an unrelated third-party business.

International law enforcement dismantles Webstresser.org, a website allegedly operating as a launch pad for up to six million distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks worldwide.