Thomson Reuters reveals breach that exposed U.S. and Canadian court records
Thomson Reuters has disclosed a data breach affecting C-Track, a court case management platform operated by its subsidiaries, exposing court records and sensitive personal …
Canada’s first SMS blaster case leads to three arrests
Canadian law enforcement arrested three men who face 44 charges for operating an SMS blaster device that mimicked a legitimate cellular tower. The device was operated from …
Poisoned “Office 365” search results lead to stolen paychecks
A financially motivated hacking group is targeting Canadian employees with a sophisticated campaign designed to covertly redirect their salary payments into …
North Korea’s IT workers are targeting firms beyond tech, crypto, and the U.S.
North Korea’s clandestine IT Worker (ITW) program, which is long known for targeting U.S. technology firms and crypto firms, has broadened its scope to attempt to infiltrate a …
WinRAR zero-day was exploited by two threat actors (CVE-2025-8088)
The RomCom attackers aren’t the only ones that have been leveraging the newly unveiled WinRAR vulnerability (CVE-2025-8088) in zero-day attacks: according to Russian …
Hertz data breach: Customers in US, EU, UK, Australia and Canada affected
American car rental company Hertz has suffered a data breach linked to last year’s exploitation of Cleo zero-day vulnerabilities by a ransomware gang. The breach …
Canada launches breach risk self-assessment online tool
Privacy Commissioner of Canada Philippe Dufresne has launched a new online tool that will help businesses and federal institutions that experience a privacy breach to assess …
Thousands of unpatched VMware ESXi servers hit by ransomware via old bug (CVE-2021-21974)
Late last week, unknown attackers launched a widespread ransomware attack hitting VMware ESXi hypervisors via CVE-2021-21974, an easily exploitable vulnerability that allows …
As trust in online spaces degrades, Canada bolsters resilience against cyber attacks
In this Help Net Security interview, Sami Khoury, Head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, talks about how Canada is addressing today’s top threats, touches upon …
Mars Stealer malware pushed via Google Ads and phishing emails
Cybercriminals trying to foist the Mars Stealer malware onto users seemingly have a penchant for one particulat tactic: disguising it as legitimate, benign software to trick …
With data volumes and velocity multiplying, how do you choose the right data security solution?
There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused radical changes in our personal and working lives. The sudden and massive surge of employees working from home and the …
Criminals boost their schemes with COVID-19 themed phishing templates
Phishers are incessantly pumping out COVID-19 themed phishing campaigns and refining the malicious pages the targets are directed to. “Credential phishing attackers …
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