Deeba Ahmed
1843 posts
Deeba is a veteran cybersecurity reporter at Hackread.com with over a decade of experience covering cybercrime, vulnerabilities, and security events. Her expertise and in-depth analysis make her a key contributor to the platform’s trusted coverage.
Telecom giant behind routing SMS discloses 5-year-long data breach
The target of the data breach Syniverse works with carriers like T-Mobile, Verizon, Twilio, and AT&T in routing SMS text messages.
October 8, 2021
Medtronic recalls insulin pump controllers over life-threatening flaws
Medtronic has recalled the remote controllers used with some of the company’s insulin pumps because of inherent vulnerabilities that could lead to injury or death.
October 7, 2021
The Telegraph newspaper exposed 10TB of subscriber data
The data was exposed due to an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster and remained open to public access without any security authentication.
October 6, 2021
ATM bombing suspect blew himself up while filming tutorial
Europol revealed that the gang was involved in at least fifteen ATM bombings in Germany, causing financial losses of around €2.15 million.
October 4, 2021
Ex-army admin jailed for 12 years over US military health data theft
Frederick Brown, a medical data technician & admin associated with the 65th Medical Brigade of the US Army caused millions of dollars in losses.
October 4, 2021
Android flubot malware installs itself by faking security update
The warning is obviously phony but looks authentic that can deceive users into installing Flubot malware on their devices.
October 2, 2021
GriftHorse Android malware hit 10 million devices in 70 countries
Dubbed GriftHorse by researchers; the malware has stolen millions of dollars from its victims across 70 countries around the world.
September 30, 2021
NSA, CISA Release Guidelines to Secure VPNs
The NSA and CISA have published guidelines to secure virtual private networks (VPNs) as threat actors have been exploiting VPN vulnerabilities.
September 29, 2021
Bandwidth.com is latest victim of nonstop DDoS attacks against VoIP
Bandwidth.com has been suffering DDoS attacks for the past 3 days nonstop and at the time of publishing this article, its service was still down.
September 28, 2021
Urgent Chrome security update released to patch widely exploited 0-day
The vulnerability impacts 2 Billion Chrome users worldwide therefore Google is asking users to update their browsers right now.
September 27, 2021