Popular Android apps with 142.5 million collective installs leak user data
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Android Trojan GriftHorse, the gift horse you definitely should look in the mouth
Researchers at Zimperium have discovered an aggressive mobile premium services campaign with over 10 million victims all over the world....
Telegram-powered bots circumvent 2FA
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Cybersecurity experts have discovered a new hacker group
Cybersecurity experts have discovered a new hacker group ChamelGang, which attacks institutions in ten countries around the world, including Russia....
Scammers are Using Twitter Bots for PayPal and Venmo Scams
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Nobelium APT Group Uses Custom Backdoor to Target Windows Domains
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Threat Actors from China Infiltrated a Major Afghan Telecom Provider
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Threat actors use recently discovered CVE-2021-26084 Atlassian Confluence
Threat actors are actively exploiting the recently disclosed CVE-2021-26084 RCE vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence deployments. Trend Micro researchers have spotted...
CISA releases Insider Risk Mitigation Self-Assessment Tool
The US CISA has released a new tool that allows to assess the level of exposure of organizations to insider...
Facebook released Mariana Trench tool to find flaws in Android and Java apps
Facebook released Mariana Trench, an internal open-source tool that can be used to identify vulnerabilities in Android and Java applications....
Expert discloses new iPhone lock screen vulnerability in iOS 15
The security researcher Jose Rodriguez discovered a new lock screen vulnerability for iOS 15 (& iOS 14.8) that has yet...
Vaccine passport app leaks users’ personal data
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Microsoft, CISA and NSA offer security tools and advice, but will you take it?
Microsoft offers to help you with patching Exchange servers, CISA offers an insider threat tool, and together with the NSA...
Instagram Kids put on hold
Instagram has announced it is pausing the development of its newest brainchild, Instagram Kids—a version of Instagram aimed at 10-12-year-olds,...
Japan mentioned Russia in its new cybersecurity strategy
The Japanese government on Tuesday officially approved a new three-year cybersecurity strategy, where Russia, China and North Korea are mentioned...
Kids Fairy Tale App Farfaria Exposed Data of 2.9 Million Users
Cybersecurity researcher at Comparitech has identified a misconfigured MongoDB database containing a treasure trove of data left uncovered to the...
Working Exploit Is Out for VMware vCenter CVE-2021-22005 Flaw
A fully working exploit for the remote code execution vulnerability in VMware vCenter labelled as CVE-2021-22005 is now publicly accessible,...
Latest Microsoft Exchange Server Feature Mitigates High-Risk Bugs
One of the prominent targets for hackers is Microsoft Exchange, and the attack vector typically involves a popular vulnerability which...
Spoofed Zix Encrypted Email is Used in Credential Spear-Phishing
Hackers have used a credential phishing attack to steal data from Office 365, Google Workspace, and Microsoft Exchange by spoofing...
DarkHalo after SolarWinds: the Tomiris connection
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GriftHorse malware infected more than 10 million Android phones from 70 countries
Security researchers uncovered a massive malware operation, dubbed GriftHorse, that has already infected more than 10 million Android devices worldwide....
NSA, CISA release guidance on hardening remote access via VPN solutions
The U.S. CISA and the NSA agencies have published guidance for securely using virtual private network (VPN) solutions. The U.S....
Group-IB CEO was put under arrest on treason charges
Russian media reported that the police made searches in the Moscow office of security firm Group-IB apparently linked to an...
