Category Security

January 5, 2023Rabbi LakshmananPrivacy / Data protection Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta Platforms €390 million (approximately $414 million) for handling user data to serve personalized ads. To that end, the privacy regulator has ordered Meta Ireland to…

According to the National Cyber ​​Security Center (NCSC), the National Health Service (NHS) topped the list of UK government agencies most frequently impersonated in suspected email scams last year. The NCSC claimed that its highly popular Suspicious Email Reporting Service…

December 28, 2022Rabbi LakshmananBlockchain / Android Malware On Wednesday, decentralized multi-chain crypto wallet BitKeep confirmed a cyberattack that allowed attackers to distribute unauthorized versions of its Android apps with the aim of stealing users’ digital currency. “Maliciously embedded code allowed…

The car’s mobile app could have allowed the hackers to remotely unlock the car, turn the engine on and off, and honk the horn. These are the findings of security researcher and bug bounty hunter Sam Curry, who has investigated…

The developer behind a major open-source machine learning framework warned that a malicious dependency mimicking one of its own was available in a major code repository over the Christmas period. The malicious package “torchtriton” had the same name as the…

January 4, 2023Rabbi LakshmananVPN / Server Security Synology has released a security update to address a critical flaw affecting VPN Plus Server that can be exploited to hijack affected systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-43931, has a severity rating of…

According to local media reports, Russian courts and government agencies were hit by a previously undocumented data-wiping malware known as CryWiper. The malware was first discovered in August, when hundreds of PCs belonging to the Russian Supreme Court, Ministry of…

Several social media accounts and fake websites pretended to be selling the popular hacking tool Flipper Zero in an attempt to lure cybersecurity experts into trading cryptocurrencies. This new campaign of angler phishing, a type of social media phishing that…

Ransomware: Modern Threats, How to Prevent Them, and How the FBI Can Help In April 2021, Dutch supermarkets faced food shortages. It wasn’t the drought, nor the surge in demand for avocados. Rather, the reason was a ransomware attack. Over…

A security researcher has won a $107,500 bug bounty after discovering how hackers installed a backdoor on Google Home devices to take control of the microphone and covertly spy on the owner’s conversations. Vulnerability hunter Matt Kunze first reported the…