Tag: COVID
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US Claims to Have Recovered $1.4bn in COVID Fraud
A US initiative designed to crack down on COVID fraud has resulted in the seizure of $1.4bn and thousands of criminal charges in the past …
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CoWIN Data Leak – Personal Data of COVID Vaccine Recipients Leaked on Telegram
The information of hundreds of thousands of Indians who received the COVID vaccination was exposed in a significant data breach and posted …
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Trio Arrested in COVID PPE Fraud Probe
Three individuals including a married couple have been arrested in connection with a fraud scheme that may have cost several companies …
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New Yorker Gets Four Years for $9m COVID Fraud Scheme
A New York woman has been jailed for nearly four years after pleading guilty to offenses related to a fraud scheme which stole millions in …
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Chinese government-linked hacking group allegedly stole $20M in COVID relief funds
A hacking group linked to the Chinese government is alleged to have stolen over $20 million in COVID relief benefits, including U.S. Small …
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Punisher Ransomware Uses a COVID Lure to Spread
A new variant of Punisher ransomware was discovered recently. The malware spreads through a fake COVID tracking application and its victims …
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Jailed crooks told to cough up $600k for COVID fraud
Two Florida residents will spend years behind bars and pay more than half a million dollars for wire fraud and identity theft, among other …
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UK health privacy watchdog still in talks over who is accessing country’s COVID data store
More than two years after England launched a COVID data store, keeping details of National Health Service (NHS) patients, the country’s …
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WA Health: No breaches of unencrypted COVID data means well managed and secure system
The Auditor-General of Western Australia has once again given state authorities a whack for security weaknesses in IT systems used in the …
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Novel Nerbian RAT Lurks Behind Faked COVID Safety Emails
Malicious emails with macro-enabled Word documents are spreading a never-before-seen remote-access Trojan, researchers …
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Ransomware attack and COVID woes force this 150-year-old college to shut down
Lincoln College in Illinois will shut down permanently this week after financial woes caused by the pandemic were magnified by a ransomware …
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2021 COVID bounce: Malware has returned with a vengeance
At a particularly perilous moment for privacy and security, Malwarebytes’ research uncovered a COVID bounce, a massive 2021 resurgence of …
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