RCMP warns of an ongoing phishing campaign using emails claiming Canada post has a parcel held in your name. A new email scam has been making its way around the country, trying to trick people into entering their financial information by purporting they have a package to claim. On November 30th, a concerned citizen reached […]

Google has warned millions of its Gmail users about a phishing campaign spearheaded by hackers based in Russia. In a report published on Monday, the search engine giant said that the attack is aimed to steal users’ account credentials using fake emails sent to their email addresses. The campaign targeted over 12,000 Gmail accounts, but […]

Apple is suing Israel’s NSO Group, the world’s most notorious hacker-for-hire company, for developing and distributing malware to hack devices. In a complaint registered in federal Court in California, the tech giant said that NSO employees “are amoral 21st-century mercenaries who have created highly sophisticated cyber-surveillance machinery that invites routine and flagrant abuse.” Craig Federighi, […]

Police describe this as the biggest crypto heist in history! It’s not usual to see an Ontario-based teenager arrested for shoplifting, let alone stealing millions of dollars through a complicated cryptocurrency hack. That’s right! Hamilton law-enforcement agency reported on Wednesday that they have arrested and charged a local teenager for robbing a whopping CAD 46 […]

Health institutions in Canada have been hit by a massive Cyberattack! On Wednesday, the Newfoundland and Labrador government revealed that more data breaches have occurred in the aftermath of a cyberattack that has damaged the healthcare operations in the province for almost two weeks. This upward trend of cyberattacks on hospitals is believed to be […]

The RCMP and Calgary police contributed to the investigation leading to the arrest of two people last week in Romania. The arrested individuals are suspected to be linked with Sodinokibi/REvil ransomware operations. The arrest is lauded as the second major strike against the members of the notorious cybercriminal network, REvil, this week. Just recently, the […]

A Calgary-based real estate and property management company has been hit with a ransomware attack, losing some of its confidential data. Ronmor Holdings confirmed that they had suffered the malware attack in late September. “I can confirm that in late September, we learned that Ronmor was the victim of a ransomware attack on our systems […]

Connie Hamilton, a resident of Alberta, is hit hard by a cyber-attack – one concerning the ransom demand. “I pleaded with (the hacker),” she told the news agency. “I told him, ‘This account has no value to you. I don’t have any money.” On 26th Oct, Hamilton got an email notification, alerting her about a […]

Security experts say that the recent cyberattacks on Newfoundland and Labrador’s healthcare system, which resulted in the cancellation of hundreds of medical procedures & appointments and forced authorities to switch back to paper, isn’t just a single incident. But, in fact, hackers have been increasingly targeting healthcare institutions since the start of the pandemic because […]

Beware! You could be next… One cybersecurity professional says a series of attacks in the Ottawa-Gatineau region, including Thursday’s attack on the city of Clarence-Rockland, should be a warning sign for others to take prompt actions of strengthening their security and data privacy systems. Cyberattacks are on the rise these days. A week earlier, the […]