The TikTok Android application has been found to exploit the Play Store services in order to bundle personalized advertising without the users consent. This practice is officially banned by Google for all applications uploaded on their repository. TikTok Collects Private…
Samsung’s Find My Mobile feature which is part of the Galaxy series of smartphones has been found to include several security vulnerabilities. According to the available report by taking advantage of them hackers can manipulate the devices into running malicious…
Hacking group have found a way to steal Bitcoin assets by redirecting transactions, this is done by taking advantage of Tor network vulnerabilities. More and more hacking groups are actively taking advantage of this opportunity, the Bitcoin cryptocurrency is detected…
A new dangerous Android vulnerability has been identified by security experts and named Achilles. The reports indicate that devices powered by Qualcomm chipsets are affected: more than 400 bugs have been discovered. The Achilles Android Vulnerability Found in Qualcomm Devices…
A very large hacking campaign has penetrated government and college sites in the US in the end delivering dangerous malware. The criminal groups are defacing the uploaded by uploading hacking tutorials for popular online services. When the visitors open them…
The well-known Have I been Pwned project is going open source. The data breach search engine with hundreds of thousands of exposed records has been developed and maintained by Troy Hunt, a well-respected security and privacy expert. Who Is Troy…
TeamViewer has been found to feature a dangerous security vulnerability tracked in the CVE-2020-13699 advisory. It allows malicious users to exploit the installed running instances. At the moment the Windows version of the application is affected. TeamViewer Windows Version Found…
Anonymous hackers have apparently breached Intel in a security intrusion in the past, as sensitive documents files totaling 20 GB which are to be leaked on the Internet. The news of this incident was was received after a developer received…
Security experts published findings on how modern facial recognition technologies can be fooled by malicious users using a discovered weakness in the machine learning algorithms used. Successful exploit of this technique will make the system think it’s seeing the target…
Computer security experts warn of a dangerous and ongoing attack against macOS users by using a flaw described in the CVE-2019-1457 advisory. Hacking groups are abusing this flaw in order to plan and execute complex infections. This is seen as…
Cybersecurity researchers recently discovered an advanced threat with a set of malicious capabilities, including ransomware. Dubbed Ensiko, the malware is a PHP web shell with ransowmare capabilities, which is capable of targeting Linux, Windows, and macOS machines. However, it can…
The Twitter development team announced that they have recently discovered and fixed a serious security issue in their Android client. They have found out that attackers could have used a malicious app in order to lookup private Twitter data using…
Mozilla is adding a new protection feature to its Firefox browser that is designed to impede redirect tracking. In other words, Firefox 79 has added protection against redirect tracking. Redirect tracking is a new user tracking technique utilized by online…
Security researchers reported a list of 295 Chrome extensions that hijack Google and Bing search results, and inject ads. The extensions have been installed by more than 80 million users of Google’s browser. AdGuard security researchers recently came across the…
Computer criminals have been found to abuse expired domain names by registering them once again and pointing the visitors to malware. This was a commonly used tactic for marketers and SEO specialists who used just names to point to landing…
Another set of critical vulnerabilities in Cisco products was just addressed; more specifically, in Cisco’s data center manager (DCNM) and SD-WAN. The data center vulnerability (CVE-2020-3382) has scored 9.8 out of 10, making it a highly critical security issue. The…
The Mirai Botnet is now targeting a flaw in the BIG-IP implementation, leading to the production of the CVE-2020-5902 advisory. This security vulnerability was identified in the first week of July 2020 and has been identified to be a critical…
BootHole is a new vulnerability in the GRUB2 bootloader used by most Linux distributions. The vulnerability, CVE-2020-10713, can be exploited for arbitrary code execution during the boot process, even with Secure Boot enabled. If exploited successfully, the vulnerability could give…
The Vatican has suffered from a hacker attack, the state’s networks have been infiltrated and it is suspected that the culprits are Chinese hackers. This information was revealed from a private security monitoring group that has revealed the intrusion. Following…
Security researchers recently discovered an unsecured database that belongs to Avon. The server didn’t have any basic security measures in place, and could be easily accessed. Thanks to this security weakness, researchers at SafetyDetectives unveiled 19 million records of individuals…
