Hacks

     2019 is now almost over. Let's have a go through to the biggest data breaches of 2019.  SBI QUICK: India’s largest bank, the State Bank of India (SBI), left one of its servers unprotected which exposed the data of its 422 million customers. The server, situated in Mumbai, contained partial bank account numbers, bank balances and phones of individuals using the bank’s SBI Quick service. Techcrunch’s investigation revealed that the back-end text message system was left unprotected allowing anyone to track text messages coming in and going out in real-time. On a single day, SBI Quick sends out nearly three million text messages — and database archives had messages dating back to December 2018. The bank has denied all reports of a data breach and has since secured the server. Indian HealthCare Website FireEye spotted that a hacker by the name of ‘fallensky519’ stole the data of 6.8 million users from an Indian healthcare website in February. ...

Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a new variant of the Snatch ransomware that first reboots infected Windows computers into Safe Mode and only then encrypts victims' files to avoid antivirus detection. Unlike traditional malware, the new Snatch ransomware chooses to run in Safe Mode because in the diagnostic mode Windows operating system starts with a minimal set of drivers and services without loading most of the third-party startup programs, including antivirus software. Snatch has been active since at least the summer of 2018, but SophosLabs researchers spotted the Safe Mode enhancement to this ransomware strain only in recent cyber attacks against various entities they investigated. "SophosLabs researchers have been investigating an ongoing series of ransomware attacks in which the ransomware executable forces the Windows machine to reboot into Safe Mode before beginning the encryption process," the  researchers say . "The ransomware, which calls itsel...