{"id":28505,"date":"2019-05-31T09:15:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T15:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/?p=28505"},"modified":"2020-05-01T14:03:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T20:03:57","slug":"cyber-news-rundown-popular-news-site-breached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/2019\/05\/31\/cyber-news-rundown-popular-news-site-breached\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber News Rundown: Popular News Site Breached"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>News Site Suffers Data Breach <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Flipboard, a news aggregation site, recently revealed that it\u2019s\nbeen the victim of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/flipboard-databases-hacked-and-user-information-exposed\/\">data\nbreach<\/a> that could affect many of their more than 100 million active users. Digital\ntokens were among the compromised data, which could give the attackers further\naccess to other sites, though Flipboard promptly removed or replaced them. At\nleast two separate breaches have been reported by Flipboard, with one occurring\nin the middle of 2018 and the other in April of this year. Both allowed the\nattackers nearly unlimited access to databases containing a wealth of user\ndata. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Keylogger Targets Multiple Industries<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At least two separate campaigns have been found to be sending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/malspam-campaigns-use-hawkeye-keylogger-to-target-businesses\/\">malicious emails<\/a> to industry-leading companies in several different areas of business. Hidden within these emails are two variants of the HawkEye keylogger that perform various malicious activities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webroot.com\/us\/en\/resources\/tips-articles\/keyloggers-explained\">beyond simply stealing keystrokes <\/a>from the infected device. By acting as a loader, HawkEye can install additional malware and even contains a script to relaunch itself in case of a system reboot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Australian Teen Hacks Apple<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A teen from Australia was recently in court to plead guilty\nto two separate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/aussie-teen-hacked-apple-for-a-job\/\">hacks\non Apple<\/a>, which he conducted in hopes of gaining a job with the company.\nWhile Apple has since confirmed that no internal or customer data was breached,\nthey have chosen leniency after his lawyer made a case for the perpetrator being\nremorseful and not understanding the full impact of his crimes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Fake Crypto-wallets Appear on App Store<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Several <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2019\/05\/fake-cryptocurrency-apps-on-google-play-try-to-profit-on-bitcoin-price-surge\/\">fake\ncryptocurrency wallets<\/a> have made their way into the Google Play store\nfollowing the latest rise in the value of Bitcoin. Both wallets use some form\nof address scam, by which the user transfers currency into a seemingly new\nwallet address that was actually designed to siphon off any transferred\ncurrency. The second of the two wallets operated under the guise of being the\n\u201cmobile\u201d version of a well-known crypto-wallet. It was quickly identified as fake\ndue to an inconsistent icon image. Both fake wallets were tied to the same\ndomain and have since been removed from the store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Ransomware Focuses on MySQL Servers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While the threat of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/gandcrab-campaign-attacks-mysql-1\/\">GandCrab<\/a>\nis not new, organizations discovered its persistent risk after researchers found\nit has been refocused on attacking MySQL servers. By specifically targeting the\nport used to connect to MySQL servers, port 3306, the attackers have had some success,\nsince many admins allow port 3306 to bypass their internal firewalls to ensure\nconnectivity. As GandCrab continues to narrow it\u2019s attack scope, its remaining viable\nvectors are likely to be even more lucrative given that most organizations are not\nable to secure everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Site Suffers Data Breach Flipboard, a news aggregation site, recently revealed that it\u2019s been the victim of a data breach that could affect many of their more than 100 million active users. Digital tokens were among the compromised data, which could give the attackers further access to other sites, though Flipboard promptly removed or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":28507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3005],"tags":[22457,21936,23945,21943],"yst_prominent_words":[24651,3959,11169,6425,4965,3769,4849,24645,24649,24639,4801,20199,24641,16743,24647,4417,4371,3773,4611,24643],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29933,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28505\/revisions\/29933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28505"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=28505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}