The Bluetooth SIG group has issued a security notice giving details about a major bug in the technology’s protocols. It is known as the KNOB Bluetooth vulnerability and it affects the security and privacy of millions devices, especially IOT ones.…
Popular threesome and gay dating apps have been breached by unknown hackers. According to the security releases this includes 3fun, Grindr, Recon and Romeo among others, but what’s particularly worrying is that the data of UK Politicians has been leaked…
Adobe has released its Patch Tuesday’s set of updates for August 2019. It includes fixes for 118 vulnerabilities in a list of Adobe’s products such as After Effects, Character Animator, Premiere Pro, Prelude, Creative Cloud, Acrobat and Reader, Experience Manager,…
Microsoft Windows users should be well aware that there are a number of dangerous vulnerabilities which have recently been detected. They are four and appear to be very similar to the BlueKeep Flaw on which we reported earlier. These bugs…
Security researchers have detected a new phishing attack that uses WhatsApp to hack into victims’ Instagram accounts. New Phishing Campaign Leveraging WhatsApp to Gain Access to Instagram More specifically, an “unnamed Turkish hacker group” is exploiting WhatsApp to initiate large…
There’s a new potential threat endangering our physical security, and it’s known as HVACking. The term was coined by McAfee Labs researchers who discovered a zero-day security flaw in a widely used building controller designed to manage various systems. These…
The latest security research regarding virus infections shows some very alarming insight: popular DSLR cameras are prone to ransomware infections. This is made possible by inherent weaknesses in the main protocol called PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol) which can easily be…
Apple users are not entirely immune against cyber threats and vulnerabilities. Thus, it is not that surprising that Apple has decided to expand its bug bounty program to more researchers by increasing the maximum payout to $1 million. The announcement…
Probably the world’s largest coin exchanges has begun an investigation after an anonymous user leaked portions of the personal user information on Telegram. Binance have stated that the user leaking the information asked for a ransom to be paid in…
The Clipsa WordPress malware is a new global attack which is set against blogs that are powered by this content management system. At the moment there is no information about the perpetrators however we can conclude that they are very…
The company AT&T has been hacked resulting in over 2 million devices to be susceptible to being unlocked on demand. A man from Pakistan was charged with corrupting AT&T staff with a lot of money so that they can install…
A new report by TU Darmstadt and Northeastern University researchers titled “A Billion Open Interfaces for Eve and Mallory: MitM, DoS, and Tracking Attacks on iOS and macOS Through Apple Wireless Direct Link” reveals that vulnerabilities in AWDL (Apple Wireless…
Have you heard of motion detection on Android devices? There’s evidence that Netflix has been running a quiet test to track the movement of some subscribers via its Android app. Netflix Android App Requesting Access to Physical Activity Users recently…
History has witnessed that whenever we rush in to expand the computing and power or interconnect these two, we expose ourselves to the new levels of cybersecurity risks. There are only two words that differentiate this generation from the upcoming…
A brand new cybersecurity report points that “in 2018, global malware volume hit a record-breaking 10.52 billion attacks, the most ever recorded by SonicWall Capture Labs threat researchers”. Of all these attacks, scanning of non-standard ports and the deployment of…
Security researchers came across a malicious campaign that is using quite convincing, fake Google domains to trick website visitors into trusting the pages to perform online transactions. More specifically, the campaign was reported by Sucuri researchers who were contacted by…
The situation with the largest data breach that has been conducted in Bulgaria just got more complicated. EUROFISC, the European Union’s anti-fraud network has been partially breached in a massive leak of information that includes files from it. What has…
A new malicious attack against Jira and Exim servers has been launched. The purpose of the attack is to infect the targeted servers with the so-called Watchbog Linux Trojan. Infected hosts become part of a botnet which is mining for…
Fake versions of the currently popular FaceApp are delivering the MobiDash adware, report cybersecurity researchers. The number of affected users seeing unwanted and intrusive ads has been increasing in the last 48 hours. Fake FaceApp Campaign Delivers MobiDash Adware According…
Rumor has it that Apple may be closing on a big deal to acquire Intel’s 5G modem business for $1 billion. Apple initially had discussions with Qualcomm but the negotiations didn’t get anywhere, and now the company appears to be…
