What to do if an email account gets hacked
If your email account gets hacked, the first thing to do is to contact the email services provider and inform them about the compromise. One can use the security question that was used at the time of registration to regain control over the account via a recovery service/procedure. Since an email compromise can lead to […]
NHS Email Servers used for Phishing Attacks
Cybercriminals reportedly hacked UK’s National Health Service, shortly dubbed NHS to launch over 1000 phishing emails from the compromised servers. This incident was discovered by a research firm named Inky and it confirmed that the illegal access to the servers was carried out for a time frame of six months ending in March this year. […]
FBI Email Servers hacked
The so-called Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), America’s most prestigious law enforcement organization, is facing embarrassment as hackers somehow crept into its email servers and sent 100,000 fake emails to many recipients- mostly innocent civilians. In what is known to our Cybersecurity Insiders, the hack occurred because of a mis-configuration in the email server of […]
UK Ministers under probe for using personal emails for government projects
Acting on a complaint received from a Ministerial staff, the UK Information Commissioner’s office has started an investigation that deals with the fact on whether some or all the UK ministers are using personal email accounts while conducting government businesses. Elizabeth Denham, the data protection commissioner of Britain, has confirmed the news and assured that […]
Ransomware attackers are now emailing customers of victimized companies
All these days, we have seen ransomware gangs striking companies and stealing & locking up their data from access until a ransom is paid. Now, a research carried out by KrebsOnSecurity says that the gangs are emailing customers of the victimized businesses to put an extra pressure on them. The conformation was given when Krebs […]
China email hack on Microsoft Exchange victimizes 50 companies
China cyber attack on Microsoft Business email Exchange server has resulted in claiming over 60,000 victims on a global note, says an update provided by the tech giant led by Mr. Satya Nadella. A US Cybersecurity firm has confirmed that its researchers are busy in investigating the incident that resulted in the disruption of over […]
UK MPS face 3 million email cyber attacks every month
In one of the astonishing surveys conducted by Parliament Street; it was revealed that the Member of Parliaments in UK were been targeted by 3 million email cyber attacks on a monthly note- a 60% increase in cyber attacks witnessed on a year on year scale. Last year, the same survey revealed that the MPs […]
Italy Email service provider data breach leaks info of its 600000 users
Italy’s Email service provider named Email.it is in the news headlines for all wrong reasons these days. As news is out that the data of more than 600,000 users are being sold on the dark web. The mail service provider has also confirmed the news and admitted that an infiltration did take place on its […]
Over Two Million Email Cyber Attacks on The National Gallery London
According to a study and data released by Absolute Software, The National Gallery London was hit by over 2 million email cyberattacks in the year 2019. The endpoint security offering company clarified that it obtained the data via Freedom of Information act and then verified the info with its sources before disclosing the facts to […]
Phishing email attack on Australian National University
A phishing email sent to a senior staff member is said to lead to the data leak of sensitive details from the database of Australian National University(ANU). Authorities confirm that Chinese hackers or a state-funded actor could be behind the cyber attack and the motive was to steal the rich trove of critical data related […]
