Recent Security News
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ICO fines spam slinging financial services biz
January 22, 2024 at 06:09AM LADH Limited, a financial services company, was fined £50,000 by the UK’s data regulator for illegally sending over 31,000 spam text messages without consent. The company failed to offer recipients the chance to opt out, and claimed to have received consent from a third party without written confirmation. The ICO…
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Safeguarding against the global ransomware threat
January 22, 2024 at 04:57AM Ransomware poses a severe threat to businesses, governments, and organizations worldwide, with potentially irreversible data loss and devastating economic and operational consequences. Data Resilience Strategist at Object First, Sterling Wilson, emphasizes the need for proactive cybersecurity measures, advocating for immutable backup storage solutions like Ootbi to protect valuable data from…
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FTC Bans InMarket for Selling Precise User Location Without Consent
January 22, 2024 at 03:03AM The U.S. FTC has banned InMarket Media from selling precise location data without consumer consent and ordered it to destroy collected data subject to user approval. InMarket and Outlogic faced bans for allegations of improper location data use. InMarket allegedly harvested location data from various apps, while a study revealed…
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Apache ActiveMQ Flaw Exploited in New Godzilla Web Shell Attacks
January 21, 2024 at 11:03PM Cybersecurity researchers have observed an increase in threat actor activity exploiting a vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ by delivering the Godzilla web shell. The web shells are concealed within an unknown binary format to evade security measures. This vulnerability has been actively exploited to deploy ransomware, rootkits, cryptocurrency miners, and DDoS…