Scammers in London posed as staff members at the Ritz Hotel to steal credit card data from customers staying at the hotel. The Ritz is currently investigating the data breach, which occurred earlier …
ISIS Allegedly Ran a Covid-19 PPE Scam Site
According to the US Department of Justice, ISIS created a fraudulent site claiming to sell PPE in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent protective equipment shortages. Today, the Justice …
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NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks
Two government agencies, the NSA and the FBI, have warned about a new malware variant called Drovorub that intentionally targets Linux systems and was constructed by the Russian military for use in …
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ReVoLTE Attack Allows Hackers to Listen in on Mobile Calls
An attack on the Voice over LTE (VoLTE) mobile communications protocol consisted of threat actors breaking encryption codes and listening in on phone calls. The rare attack on cellular protocol …
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Amazon Alexa ‘One-Click’ Attack Can Divulge Personal Data
A shocking new report by researchers at Check Point security exposes a critical vulnerability in Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant platform that could be leveraged by attackers to access banking data …
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Content farms develop and spread fake news about COVID-19 for profit
A new report published by security researchers at RiskIQ uncovers the operations of content farms that are creating false information about the COVID-19 pandemic and spreading it through fraudulent …
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TikTok Caught Breaking Google Rules To Secretly Track Android Users—Report
TikTok has allegedly been violating its own privacy policy and Google's privacy rules to secretly track Android users. A new report that was published in the Wall Street Journal states that the …
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SANS Institute Phishing Attack Leads to Theft of 28,000 Records
The SANS Institute was the victim of a phishing attack that lead to hundreds of emails from an internal account being forwarded to an unknown third party. The emails contained roughly 28,000 records …
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Critical Adobe Acrobat and Reader Bugs Allow RCE
On Tuesday, Adobe patched several critical and important flaws related to CVEs in Acrobat and Adobe Reader. The fixes were part of the company's regularly scheduled security updates. 11 holes in …
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Microsoft Patches 120 Vulnerabilities, Two Zero-Days
Microsoft's August Patch Tuesday saw fixes for 120 vulnerabilities, including two zero-days actively being exploited in the wild. The patches cover 13 different Microsft products and services, marking …
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