Credit card fraud and email scams aren’t the only thing you have to worry about this holiday season. Criminals in the UK are stepping up their game by using radio frequencies to steal cars.
Ransomware Uses Credit Card Emails with Infected Attachments
A new ransomware variant of Cerber is using fake credit card reports to entice users into opening infected email attachments. By tricking users with fake fraudulent charges for items they never purchased, the malware authors hope the victim will open the malicious document to review and cancel the charge. Fortunately, the emails are poorly-worded and contain several spelling mistakes to make them easier to spot.
Another Yahoo Hack…
Many of you have heard of the fairly large hack that affected Yahoo users in the last few years, and have (hopefully) taken steps to protect yourselves from fraudulent activity. But Yahoo recently came forward to reveal a much larger hack that could affect over 1 billion users and their account information. Although Yahoo was able to identify the infiltration point, the information—both encrypted and unencrypted—had been compromised for at least a year before they discovered the breach.
Enterprising Car Thieves Use Radio Waves to Keep Doors From Locking
Criminals are jamming the radio signals that lock and unlock vehicles, leaving unattended cars open and ready to steal. While the majority of recent thefts have taken place in the UK, this could easily become a global concern. As vehicle technology continues to advance, it’s no surprise that car thieves are keeping up with the times.
Health Service Providers Stuck on Old OS
A recent study on UK National Health Service trusts found that over 90% of healthcare providers were running their networks on Windows XP. Microsoft themselves stopped supporting this outdated operating system over a year ago and, as such, it’s full of vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, many providers around the world use outdated software with known security issues, which can put sensitive patient information at risk.
Evernote Changes Tune After Privacy Concerns
In the past few days, Evernote, the popular note-taking app, announced they would begin allowing select employees to view snippets of user data to better enhance their machine learning algorithms. The program was launched as an opt-out, but the issue of privacy erupted almost immediately. After just one day’s worth of outcry, the company changed the policy to opt-in and sent an apology to their 200 million users.
