Widespread Instagram Hack Locking Users Out of Their Accounts

The Hacker News Daily Updates Best Practices for Protecting Against Phishing, Ransomware and Email Fraud Osterman Research conducted a survey among corporate decisions makers in early 2018 and found that nearly 28% of those organizations had experienced a phishing attack that was successful in infecting their networks with malware. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Aug 16, 2018 Widespread Instagram Hack Locking Users Out of Their Accounts Instagram has been hit by a widespread hacking campaign that appears to stem from Russia and have affected hundreds of users over the past week, leaving them locked out of their accounts. A growing number of Instagram users are taking to social media, including Twitter and Reddit, to report a ... Read More Email Phishers Using New Way to Bypass Microsoft Office 365 Protections Phishing works no matter how hard a company tries to protect its customers or employees. Security researchers have been warning of a new phishing attack that cybercriminals and email scammers are using in the wild to bypass the Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) mechanism implemented by widely used ... Read More Former Microsoft Engineer Gets Prison for Role in Reveton Ransomware A former Microsoft network engineer who was charged in April this year has now been sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to money laundering in connection with the Reveton ransomware. Reveton malware is old ransomware, also known as scareware or police ransomware that instead of ... Read More Foreshadow Attacks — 3 New Intel CPU Side-Channel Flaws Discovered 2018 has been quite a tough year for Intel. While the chip-maker giant is still dealing with Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities, yet another major speculative execution flaw has been revealed in Intel's Core and Xeon lines of processors that may leave users vulnerable to cyber-attacks. ... Read More Microsoft Releases Patches for 60 Flaws—Two Under Active Attack Get your update caps on. Just a few minutes ago Microsoft released its latest monthly Patch Tuesday update for August 2018, patching a total of 60 vulnerabilities, of which 19 are rated as critical. The updates patch flaws in Microsoft Windows, Edge Browser, Internet Explorer, Office, ChakraCore, ... Read More Best Practices for Protecting Against Phishing, Ransomware and Email Fraud Osterman Research conducted a survey among corporate decisions makers in early 2018 and found that nearly 28% of those organizations had experienced a phishing attack that was successful in infecting their networks with malware. Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to balvistudio4.raaj@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India