A nonprofit has launched the first open source platform aimed at delivering sophisticated anti-fraud capabilities to financial systems in Africa as well as parts of Asia and the Middle East. The Tazama open source project is real-time financial transaction monitoring software that can be deployed by digital financial services providers to detect and block fraudulent […]
Feb 09, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence An unnamed Islamic non-profit organization in Saudi Arabia has been targeted as part of a stealthy cyber espionage campaign designed to drop a previously undocumented backdoor called Zardoor. Cisco Talos, which discovered the activity in May 2023, said the campaign has likely persisted since at least March 2021, […]
Water for People, a nonprofit that aims to improve access to clean water for people whose health is threatened by a lack of it for drinking and sanitation, is the latest organization to have been hit by ransomware criminals. The ransomware-as-a-service gang Medusa listed Water for People on its darknet site Thursday night, threatening to […]
A nonprofit institution for developing communications standards said hackers have stolen a database identifying its users. The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) announced the incident last week. It is not yet clear whether the attack was financially motivated or if the hackers had intended to acquire the list of users for espionage purposes. Following the […]
Ransomware gang BianLian has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack against nonprofit Save The Children International. The ransomware gang has been active since June 2022, and primarily targets critical infrastructure and healthcare organizations. In previous attacks, BianLian has extorted these organziations for their data. While the charity was not directly named by the ransomware gang, […]
Freecycle, a nonprofit organization which sees members exchange reusable items to divert them from landfill, has recently suffered a data breach impacting 7 million of its members. According to Freecycle, data stolen in the cyber attack included “usernames, User IDs, email addresses and passwords” but “no other personal information was compromised and the breach has […]
Freecycle, a nonprofit organization which sees members exchange reusable items to divert them from landfill, has recently suffered a data breach impacting 7 million of its members. According to Freecycle, data stolen in the cyber attack included “usernames, User IDs, email addresses and passwords” but “no other personal information was compromised and the breach has […]