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…
Clients of the company WizzAir were asked in a massively sent e-mail to immediately change their passwords because of a “technical irregularity”. WizzAir has sent emails to all its clients to change passwords. One of the biggest Hungarian budged flight…
A malicious app that advertised itself as an unofficial version of Telegram was downloaded more than 100,000 times, reported Symantec security researchers. The app is called MobonoGram 2019, and it claimed to provide more features than the official and other…
Have you heard of media file jacking attacks? This is the type of attack where malicious actors become capable of manipulating media files. Unfortunately, the media file jacking attack is not hypothetical. Symantec’s Modern OS Security team just reported that…
Security researcher Laxman Muthiyah discovered a critical vulnerability that could have allowed remote attackers to reset the password of Instagram accounts, thus obtaining full access to the compromised accounts. The vulnerability resided in the password recovery mechanism in the mobile…
It’s been some time since we last talked about Windows-related telemetry. However, this is now changing with the latest Patch Tuesday for July 2019, which includes a bonus for Windows 7 users. According to “hawk-eyed” users, a “security-only” Windows 7…
Security researchers just came across a new type of mobile malware “that has quietly infected around 25 million devices” without users being aware of the infection. The malware is targeting Android users and is called Agent Smith after the Matrix…
Several security reports indicate that a new dangerous virus called the eCh0raix ransomware is being used against QNAP Nas device owners. It appears that it is being sent in a worldwide campaigns using preset hacking configuration options and automated toolkits.…
RIG exploit kit has been detected to spread ERIS ransomware. This means that the infection vector is based simply on visiting a compromised website which downloads the malicious payload on victims’ computers. It is curious to mention that the same…
Jonathan Leitschuh just reported “a vulnerability in the Mac Zoom Client” that allows “any malicious website to enable your camera without your permission”. The issue known under CVE-2019-13450 potentially puts at risk up to 750,000 companies around the world that…
Security researcher Aleksejs Kuprins of CSIS Security Group recently discovered an Android app that allegedly provides firmware updates for Samsung users. The app is known as Updates for Samsung – Android Update Versions, and it has more than 10 million…
Security researcher Barak Tawily recently came across a 17-year-old security vulnerability Mozilla Firefox’s latest version. It turns out that the widely popular browser is vulnerable to local files theft attack on any operating system. Vulnerability in Firefox Allows Local Files…
There’s a new piece of advanced backdoor malware that can target both Linux and Windows systems in a secure, previously unseen communication. The backdoor has been dubbed Godlua, as it is Lua-based and “the Lua byte-code file loaded by this…
