Deeba Ahmed
1927 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.
Lamphone attack recovers secretive conversations via hanging light bulb
Lamphone attack allowed researchers to recover conversations from a distance of 25 meters.
June 15, 2020
Black Lives Matter movement exploited to spread Trickbot malware
This shows there’s certainly no limit to the meanness and notoriety of cybercriminals.
June 11, 2020
YouTube scammers impersonated Elon Musk, SpaceX; stole $150k in BTC
Scammers successfully tricked viewers in to sending a small amount of Bitcoin and get double in return.
June 10, 2020
Barcode Reader Apps on Play Store Infected with Adware
The adware has the capability to disappear every 15 minutes to avoid detection.
June 9, 2020
Top US aerospace services provider suffers breach, loses 1.5 TB of data
The hackers behind this breach are Maze ransomware operators.
June 6, 2020
Hackers using malicious CV files to infect PCs with banking trojan
Here's why one should never open unknown files sent by anonymous users.
June 5, 2020
8Belts exposes personal data of 100,000 e-learners globally
8Belts database was hosted on a misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket.
June 2, 2020
Joomla suffers security breach exposing user records
It total, 2,700 Joomla user records were exposed, Hackread.com has learned.
June 1, 2020
Minted confirms data breach as Shiny Hunters sell its database
The group of hackers ShinyHunters is behind Minted breach.
May 29, 2020
The Bank of America is the latest victim of a data breach
The Data Breach Impacts Paycheck Protection Program Applications Processing.
May 28, 2020