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Monday, 31 May 2021

Don’t feed the trolls and other tips for avoiding online drama

You may not be able to escape internet trolls, but you have a choice about how you will deal with them – here’s how you can handle trolls without losing your cool

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Your Amazon Devices to Automatically Share Your Wi-Fi With Neighbors

Starting June 8, Amazon will automatically enable a feature on your Alexa, Echo, or other Amazon device that will share some of your Internet bandwidth with your neighbors—unless you choose to opt out. Amazon intends to register its family of hardware devices that are operational in the U.S.—including Echo speakers, Ring Video Doorbells, Ring Floodlight Cams, and Ring

Can Your Business Email Be Spoofed? Check Your Domain Security Now!

Are you aware of how secure your domain is? In most organizations, there is an assumption that their domains are secure and within a few months, but the truth soon dawns on them that it isn't. Spotting someone spoofing your domain name is one way to determine if your security is unsatisfactory - this means that someone is impersonating you (or confusing some of your recipients) and releasing

Half-Double Rowhammer Vulnerability Even Targets The Latest Chips

A new vulnerability has recently surfaced online that has revived the threat of the Rowhammer…

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Canada Post Disclosed Data Breach Due To Third-Party Ransomware Attack

Another major service has recently fallen prey to a third-party cybersecurity incident. The latest report…

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A New Bug in Siemens PLCs Could Let Hackers Run Malicious Code Remotely

Siemens on Friday shipped firmed updates to address a severe vulnerability in SIMATIC S7-1200 and S7-1500 programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that could be exploited by a malicious actor to remotely gain access to protected areas of the memory and achieve unrestricted and undetected code execution, in what the researchers describe as an attacker's "holy grail." The memory protection bypass

Saturday, 29 May 2021

Week in security with Tony Anscombe

You, too, may be vulnerable to SIM swap attacks – How to defend yourself against rom-cons – Zero day in macOS allowed malware to take secret screenshots

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Hackers Exploited Fujitsu SaaS Targeting Japanese Govt Agencies In New Supply-Chain Attack

A serious cyber attack has recently been brought to the attention of numerous Japanese government…

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VMware Urges Patching Critical RCE Vulnerability In vCenter Server

VMware has recently fixed a serious security flaw that may even lead to ransomware attacks.…

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Researchers Demonstrate 2 New Hacks to Modify Certified PDF Documents

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two new attack techniques on certified PDF documents that could potentially enable an attacker to alter a document's visible content by displaying malicious content over the certiļ¬ed content without invalidating its signature. "The attack idea exploits the flexibility of PDF certification, which allows signing or adding annotations to certified documents

Friday, 28 May 2021

How to hire right machine learning company

When it comes to machine learning, we believe outsourcing is your best bet. This business…

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Researchers Warn of Facefish Backdoor Spreading Linux Rootkits

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new backdoor program capable of stealing user login credentials, device information and executing arbitrary commands on Linux systems. The malware dropper has been dubbed "Facefish" by Qihoo 360 NETLAB team owing its capabilities to deliver different rootkits at different times and the use of Blowfish cipher to encrypt communications to the

What are the best wallets to secure your crypto? 

Since Bitcoin emerged in 2009, it has gained a lot in value, while its popularity…

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Kdan PDF Reader Review: A Convenient Alternative To The Leading PDF Editors

Today, PDF has become the most convenient document format for all users. From e-books to…

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SolarWinds Hackers Target Think Tanks With New Backdoor

Microsoft on Thursday disclosed that the threat actor behind the SolarWinds supply chain hack returned to the threat landscape to target government agencies, think tanks, consultants, and non-governmental organizations located across 24 countries, including the U.S. "This wave of attacks targeted approximately 3,000 email accounts at more than 150 different organizations," Tom Burt, Microsoft's

6 Tips To Choose The Best Bot Protection Solution

The increasing activities of malicious bots in recent years have been very concerning, since they…

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Chinese Cyber Espionage Hackers Continue to Target Pulse Secure VPN Devices

Cybersecurity researchers from FireEye unmasked additional tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) adopted by Chinese threat actors who were recently found abusing Pulse Secure VPN devices to drop malicious web shells and exfiltrate sensitive information from enterprise networks. FireEye's Mandiant threat intelligence team, which is tracking the cyberespionage activity under two threat

Thursday, 27 May 2021

Dominos India Admits Data Breach After Hackers Upload Stolen Data For Sale

Another data breach has surfaced online targeting Indian citizens shortly after the Air India breach.…

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Malvertising Campaign On Google Distributed Trojanized AnyDesk Installer

Cybersecurity researchers on Wednesday publicized the disruption of a "clever" malvertising network targeting AnyDesk that delivered a weaponized installer of the remote desktop software via rogue Google ads that appeared in the search engine results pages. The campaign, which is believed to have begun as early as April 21, 2021, involves a malicious file that masquerades as a setup executable

I hacked my friend’s website after a SIM swap attack

Here’s how easily your phone number could be stolen, why a successful SIM swap scam is only the beginning of your problems, and how you can avoid becoming a victim of the attack

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Bluetooth bugs could allow attackers to impersonate devices

Patches to remedy the vulnerabilities should be released over the coming weeks

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Hackers Using Fake Foundations to Target Uyghur Minority in China

The Uyghur community located in China and Pakistan has been the subject of an ongoing espionage campaign aiming to trick the targets into downloading a Windows backdoor to amass sensitive information from their systems. "Considerable effort was put into disguising the payloads, whether by creating delivery documents that appear to be originating from the United Nations using up to date related

Belgium Interior Ministry Fell Prey To ‘Sophisticated’ Cyber Attack

While media reports had already reported a cyber attack, the Belgium officials have recently confirmed…

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Wednesday, 26 May 2021

Newly Discovered Bugs in VSCode Extensions Could Lead to Supply Chain Attacks

Severe security flaws uncovered in popular Visual Studio Code extensions could enable attackers to compromise local machines as well as build and deployment systems through a developer's integrated development environment (IDE). The vulnerable extensions could be exploited to run arbitrary code on a developer's system remotely, in what could ultimately pave the way for supply chain attacks. Some

Multiple Bluetooth Vulnerabilities Allowed Spoofing Legit Devices – Update Now

Researchers have found numerous vulnerabilities in Bluetooth technology allowing man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks. Exploiting these bugs…

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Audio Tech Giant Bose Disclosed Ransomware Attack

Another victim of a ransomware attack has surfaced online. The latest target is the audio…

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Alaska Health Department Site Went Offline After Malware Attack

Joining the trail of cybersecurity victims from the health sector, the latest victim comes from…

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Apple Patched Three Actively Exploited Zero-Day Bugs In macOS/tvOS

Apple has recently addressed three serious zero-day bugs in macOS and tvOS that were under…

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Data Wiper Malware Disguised As Ransomware Targets Israeli Entities

Researchers on Tuesday disclosed a new espionage campaign that resorts to destructive data-wiping attacks targeting Israeli entities at least since December 2020 that camouflage the malicious activity as ransomware extortions. Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne attributed the attacks to a nation-state actor affiliated with Iran it tracks under the moniker "Agrius." "An analysis of what at first

Security Risks That Ecommerce Businesses Face and How to Avoid Them

With the ecommerce business models gaining more and more traction, the industry is growing fast…

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The Benefits and Drawbacks of Geo-Restrictions

Today we will talk about “The Benefits and Drawbacks of Geo-Restrictions,” and for those who…

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Apple fixes macOS zero‑day bug that let malware take secret screenshots

You would do well to update to macOS Big Sur 11.4 post-haste

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WhatsApp Sues Indian Government Over New Privacy Threatening Internet Law

WhatsApp on Wednesday fired a legal salvo against the Indian government to block new regulations that would require messaging apps to trace the "first originator" of messages shared on the platform, thus effectively breaking encryption protections. "Requiring messaging apps to 'trace' chats is the equivalent of asking us to keep a fingerprint of every single message sent on WhatsApp, which would

Google Researchers Discover A New Variant of Rowhammer Attack

A team of security researchers from Google has demonstrated yet another variant of the Rowhammer attack that bypasses all current defenses to tamper with data stored in memory. Dubbed "Half-Double," the new hammering technique hinges on the weak coupling between two memory rows that are not immediately adjacent to each other but one row removed.  "Unlike TRRespass, which exploits the blind spots

Tuesday, 25 May 2021

Russian Hydra DarkNet Market Made Over $1.3 Billion in 2020

Russian-language dark web marketplace Hydra has emerged as a hotspot for illicit activities, pulling in a whopping $1.37 billion worth of cryptocurrencies in 2020, up from $9.4 million in 2016. The "blistering growth" in annual transaction volumes marks a staggering 624% year-over-year jump over a three-year period from 2018 to 2020. "Further buoying Hydra's growth is its ability—or its good

Critical RCE Vulnerability Found in VMware vCenter Server — Patch Now!

VMware has rolled out patches to address a critical security vulnerability in vCenter Server that could be leveraged by an adversary to execute arbitrary code on the server. Tracked as CVE-2021-21985 (CVSS score 9.8), the issue stems from a lack of input validation in the Virtual SAN (vSAN) Health Check plug-in, which is enabled by default in the vCenter Server. "A malicious actor with network

Download Ultimate 'Security for Management' Presentation Template

There is a person in every organization that is the direct owner of breach protection. His or her task is to oversee and govern the process of design, build, maintain, and continuously enhance the security level of the organization. Title-wise, this person is most often either the CIO, CISO, or Directory of IT. For convenience, we'll refer to this individual as the CISO. This person is the

New High-Severity Vulnerability Reported in Pulse Connect Secure VPN

Ivanti, the company behind Pulse Secure VPN appliances, has published a security advisory for a high severity vulnerability that may allow an authenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. "Buffer Overflow in Windows File Resource Profiles in 9.X allows a remote authenticated user with privileges to browse SMB shares to execute arbitrary code as the root user,"

Monday, 24 May 2021

New Bluetooth Flaws Let Attackers Impersonate Legitimate Devices

Adversaries could exploit newly discovered security weaknesses in Bluetooth Core and Mesh Profile Specifications to masquerade as legitimate devices and carry out man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks. "Devices supporting the Bluetooth Core and Mesh Specifications are vulnerable to impersonation attacks and AuthValue disclosure that could allow an attacker to impersonate a legitimate device during

Apple‌ Issues Patches to Combat Ongoing 0-Day Attacks on macOS, tvOS

Apple on Monday rolled out security updates for iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and Safari web browser to fix multiple vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited zero-day flaw in macOS Big Sur and expand patches for two previously disclosed zero-day flaws.  Tracked as CVE-2021-30713, the zero-day concerns a permissions issue in Apple's Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) framework in macOS

Air India Disclosed Data Breach Affecting 4.5M Customers In The Wake Of SITA Breach

Around two months after the SITA cyber attack, Air India has disclosed a data breach…

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Bizarro Banking Trojan Targets Dozens Of Banks Across Europe, South America

Another threat for the online banking sector has surfaced online. Identified as Bizarro – a…

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Researchers Link CryptoCore Attacks On Cryptocurrency Exchanges to North Korea

State-sponsored hackers affiliated with North Korea have been behind a slew of attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges over the past three years, new evidence has revealed. Attributing the attack with "medium-high" likelihood to the Lazarus Group (aka APT38 or Hidden Cobra), researchers from Israeli cybersecurity firm ClearSky said the campaign, dubbed "CryptoCore," targeted crypto exchanges in

Glass, Metal Products Producer Ardagh Group Suffered Cyber Attack

Another corporate entity has disclosed a cybersecurity incident. The recent victim is the European packaging…

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Vulnerabilities In Rocket.chat App Could Allow Remote Code Execution Attacks

Serious security vulnerabilities in the open-source app Rocket.Chat could allow an adversary to take over…

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Rom‑con: How romance fraud targets older people and how to avoid it

Online dating scams often follow the same script – here’s what senior citizens should watch out for and how their younger relatives can help them avoid falling victim

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What To Do When Your Business Is Hacked

As businesses move to a remote workforce, hackers have increased their activity to capitalize on new security holes. Cybercriminals often use unsophisticated methods that continue to be extremely successful. These include phishing emails to harvest credentials and gain easy access to business-critical environments. Hackers are also using ransomware to hold your data hostage, demanding a ransom

Suing Your Employer for a Data Breach

The modern world is dependent on the digital database for information storage. Most people and…

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Microsoft Introduced SimuLand – An Open-Source Lab Testing Real-Time Attacks

Microsoft recently released a useful tool for the cybersecurity community. Named as ‘SimuLand’, the tool…

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Android Apps Leaked 100+ Million Users’ Data Due To Misconfigured Cloud Services

Misconfigured databases have long been a reason for exposing sensitive data. This time, however, the…

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WP Statistics Plugin Flaw Time-Based Blind SQL Injection

Heads up, WordPress admins! The popular plugin WP Statistics had a serious security flaw that…

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Microsoft Warns Of Fake Ransomware StrRAT That Is Actually A Potent Malware

A new threat is in the wild targeting users with false ransomware campaigns. Identified as…

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Details Disclosed On Critical Flaws Affecting Nagios IT Monitoring Software

Cybersecurity researchers disclosed details about 13 vulnerabilities in the Nagios network monitoring application that could be abused by an adversary to hijack the infrastructure without any operator intervention. "In a telco setting, where a telco is monitoring thousands of sites, if a customer site is fully compromised, an attacker can use the vulnerabilities to compromise the telco, and then

Saturday, 22 May 2021

Week in security with Tony Anscombe

How stalkerware puts the stalkers' own data at risk – Watch out for FluBot – Building security into critical infrastructure

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FBI Analyst Charged With Stealing Counterterrorism and Cyber Threats Info

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) indicted an employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for illegally removing numerous national security documents and willfully retaining them at her personal residence during a 13-year period from June 2004 to December 2017.  The federal indictment charged Kendra Kingsbury, 48, with two counts of having unauthorized possession of documents

FBI Warns Conti Ransomware Hit 16 U.S. Health and Emergency Services

The adversary behind Conti ransomware targeted no fewer than 16 healthcare and first responder networks in the U.S. within the past year, totally victimizing over 400 organizations worldwide, 290 of which are situated in the country. That's according to a new flash alert issued by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday. "The FBI identified at least 16 Conti ransomware attacks

Friday, 21 May 2021

Air India Hack Exposes Credit Card and Passport Info of 4.5 Million Passengers

India's flag carrier airline, Air India, has disclosed a data breach affecting 4.5 million of its customers over a period stretching nearly 10 years after its Passenger Service System (PSS) provider SITA fell victim to a cyber attack earlier this year. The breach involves personal data registered between Aug. 26, 2011 and Feb. 3, 2021, including details such as names, dates of birth, contact

Insurance Firm CNA Financial Reportedly Paid Hackers $40 Million in Ransom

U.S. insurance giant CNA Financial reportedly paid $40 million to a ransomware gang to recover access to its systems following an attack in March, making it one the most expensive ransoms paid to date. The development was first reported by Bloomberg, citing "people with knowledge of the attack." The adversary that staged the intrusion is said to have allegedly demanded $60 million a week after

Android 12 will give you more control over how much data you share with apps

An all-new privacy dashboard and better location, microphone and camera controls are all aimed at curbing apps’ data-slurping habits

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Microsoft Warns of Data Stealing Malware That Pretends to Be Ransomware

Microsoft on Thursday warned of a "massive email campaign" that's pushing a Java-based STRRAT malware to steal confidential data from infected systems while disguising itself as a ransomware infection. "This RAT is infamous for its ransomware-like behavior of appending the file name extension .crimson to files without actually encrypting them," the Microsoft Security Intelligence team said in a

Thursday, 20 May 2021

Magecart Now Hides Malicious PHP Web Shells In Website Favicons

Once again, the Magecart gang has made it to the news owing to a unique…

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Vulnerabilities In Mercedes-Benz System Could Allow Hacking of The Vehicle

Researchers have found how tech advancements can pose a threat to car security. Recently, they…

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French Firms AXA And Acer Finance Suffered Ransomware Attack

Insurance giant AXA has recently announced they have dropped ransomware attack coverage. It seems the…

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Rapid7 Admit Suffering An Impact Due To Codecov Breach

Codecov reported a devastating supply-chain attack in April. Yet, after almost a month, the victims…

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Cross-Browser Tracking Bug Affects Numerous Browsers Including Tor

A cross-browser tracking bug has surfaced online targeting browsers. This vulnerability allows apps to identify…

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These 23 Android Apps Expose Over 100,000,000 Users' Personal Data

Misconfigurations in multiple Android apps leaked sensitive data of more than 100 million users, potentially making them a lucrative target for malicious actors. "By not following best-practices when configuring and integrating third-party cloud-services into applications, millions of users' private data was exposed," Check Point researchers said in an analysis published today and shared with

Is Single Sign-On Enough to Secure Your SaaS Applications?

If there's one thing all great SaaS platforms share in common, it's their focus on simplifying the lives of their end-users. Removing friction for users in a safe way is the mission of single sign-on (SSO) providers. With SSO at the helm, users don't have to remember separate passwords for each app or hide the digital copies of the credentials in plain sight. SSO also frees up the IT's bandwidth

Watering Hole Attack Was Used to Target Florida Water Utilities

An investigation undertaken in the aftermath of the Oldsmar water plant hack earlier this year has revealed that an infrastructure contractor in the U.S. state of Florida hosted malicious code on its website in what's known as a watering hole attack. "This malicious code seemingly targeted water utilities, particularly in Florida, and more importantly, was visited by a browser from the city of

Wednesday, 19 May 2021

Android Issues Patches for 4 New Zero-Day Bugs Exploited in the Wild

Google on Wednesday updated its May 2021 Android Security Bulletin to disclose that four of the security vulnerabilities that were patched earlier this month by Arm and Qualcomm may have been exploited in the wild as zero-days. "There are indications that CVE-2021-1905, CVE-2021-1906, CVE-2021-28663 and CVE-2021-28664 may be under limited, targeted exploitation," the search giant said in an

Boosty Labs: How To Protect Yourself From Fraudsters During A Crisis?

In this article, fintech software development company Boosty Labs’ team discusses security issues and shares…

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Building More Secure Software For Windows, Mac OSX And Linux

Leveraging the top tools and frameworks, modern developers have been able to build more secure…

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DarkSide Ransomware Gang Extorted $90 Million from Several Victims in 9 Months

DarkSide, the hacker group behind the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack earlier this month, received $90 million in bitcoin payments following a nine-month ransomware spree, making it one of the most profitable cybercrime groups. "In total, just over $90 million in bitcoin ransom payments were made to DarkSide, originating from 47 distinct wallets," blockchain analytics firm Elliptic said. "

Mozilla Begins Rolling Out 'Site Isolation' Security Feature to Firefox Browser

Mozilla has begun rolling out a new security feature for its Firefox browser in nightly and beta channels that aims to protect users against a new class of side-channel attacks from malicious sites. Called "Site Isolation," the implementation loads each website separately in its own operating system process and, as a result, prevents untrusted code from a rogue website from accessing

Colonial Pipeline attack: Hacking the physical world

The attack is a reminder of growing cyberthreats to critical infrastructure while also showing why providers of essential services are ripe targets for cybercriminals

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Scams target families of missing persons, FBI warns

Con artists use social media to find and target victims for various nefarious ends, including to extort relatives of missing persons

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Cybersixgill: Next Generation Threat Intelligence

Intro Dark web intelligence in times of uncertainty The pandemic forced a lot of organizations…

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Irish Health Sector Under Attack By Conti Ransomware Gang

Conti ransomware has waged back-to-back attacks on the Irish health sector. At first, they successfully…

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A Simple 1-Click Compromised Password Reset Feature Coming to Chrome Browser

Google on Tuesday announced a new feature to its password manager that could be used to change a stolen password automatically with a single tap. Automated password changes build on the tool's ability to check the safety of saved passwords. Thus when Chrome finds a password that may have been compromised as part of a data breach, it will prompt users with an alert containing a "Change Password"

Tuesday, 18 May 2021

How Apple Gave Chinese Government Access to iCloud Data and Censored Apps

In July 2018, when Guizhou-Cloud Big Data (GCBD) agreed to a deal with state-owned telco China Telecom to move users' iCloud data belonging to Apple's China-based users to the latter's servers, the shift raised concerns that it could make user data vulnerable to state surveillance. Now, according to a deep-dive report from The New York Times, Apple's privacy and security concessions have "made

Free "vCISO Clinic" offers Resource-Constrained InfoSec Leaders a Helping Hand

Leaders in the InfoSec field face a strange dilemma. On the one hand, there are hundreds of thousands of resources available to find online to read (or watch) if they have questions – that's a benefit of a digital-first field. On the other hand, most leaders face challenges that – while not entirely unique each time – tend to require a specific touch or solution. For most, it would be great to

Experts Reveal Over 150 Ways to Steal Control of 58 Android Stalkerware Apps

A total of 158 privacy and security issues have been identified in 58 Android stalkware apps from various vendors that could enable a malicious actor to take control of a victim's device, hijack a stalker's account, intercept data, achieve remote code execution, and even frame the victim by uploading fabricated evidence. The new findings, which come from an analysis of 86 stalkerware apps for

70 European and South American Banks Under Attack By Bizarro Banking Malware

A financially motivated cybercrime gang has unleashed a previously undocumented banking trojan, which can steal credentials from customers of 70 banks located in various European and South American countries. Dubbed "Bizarro" by Kaspersky researchers, the Windows malware is "using affiliates or recruiting money mules to operationalize their attacks, cashing out or simply to helping [sic] with

Why is it crucial to have top-notch UI/UX for a web app in 2020?

Thinking about what a website or an app should be in 2020, people rarely come…

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Monday, 17 May 2021

Microsoft Warns Of RevengeRAT Under Distribution Via Spearphishing Emails

Microsoft have recently shared details of a new threat in the wild aiming to steal…

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Chemical Giant Brentagg Silently Managed Ransomware Attack By Paying $4.4 Million

While paying ransom to cybercriminals is never encouraged, victims continue to do that seemingly to…

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CNA Confirmed Complete Service Restoration A Month After The Ransomware Attack

Insurance giant CNA has assured they have achieved full restoration following a devastating ransomware attack.…

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Apple's Find My Network Can be Abused to Exfiltrate Data From Nearby Devices

Latest research has demonstrated a new exploit that enables arbitrary data to be uploaded from devices that are not connected to the Internet by simply sending "Find My Bluetooth" broadcasts to nearby Apple devices. "It's possible to upload arbitrary data from non-internet-connected devices by sending Find My [Bluetooth Low Energy] broadcasts to nearby Apple devices that then upload the data for

Take action now – FluBot malware may be on its way

Why FluBot is a major threat for Android users, how to avoid falling victim, and how to get rid of the malware if your device has already been compromised

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