A popular unofficial Android keyboard app that has been installed more than 40 million times, secretly engages in click-fraud and steals money from users by signing them up to paid subscriptions …
32,000+ WiFi Routers Potentially Exposed to New Gafgyt Variant
New research by Unit 42 warns that a new version of the Gafgyt Internet of Things (IoT) botnet is targeting vulnerabilities in home routers by Huawei, Realtek and Zyxel. Scan results show that the …
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Thousands of QNAP NAS devices have been infected with the QSnatch malware
Threat actors are targeting network-attached storage (NAS) devices produced by Taiwanese tech firm QNAP with QSnatch, a malware strain that has not been spotted before. The German Computer Emergency …
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How schools can better protect themselves against cyberattacks
A new report by Barracuda Networks indicates that US K-12 schools have suffered a total of 301 cyberattacks so far this year, which is already more than double the total number of attacks reported …
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Cybercriminals using custom phishing tools to target the world’s largest tech brands
A new report by Akamai shows that the most popular companies targeted in phishing campaigns are Microsoft, PayPal, DHL, and Dropbox, which together accounted for 42.63% of all observed phishing …
2020 is the Year Data Gets Weaponized
A new Forrester report projects how the cyber threat landscape is likely to evolve in the coming years. The picture it paints of the near future is grim, to say the least. The researchers project that …
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21 Million Logins for Top 500 Firms Offered on the Dark Web
Threat actors are distributing more than 21 million login details for Fortune 500 companies on the dark web, security researchers with ImmuniWeb have discovered by crawling underground market places, …
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An 82-Year-Old Is Suspected Of Decades-Long Scam Selling Dangerous Weapons Parts To US Military
The US Department of Justice is accusing an 82-year-old American citizen of having sold “blatantly defective replacement parts for US military weapon systems” to the US Department of Defense (DoD) …
Office 365 users targeted with fake voicemail alerts in suspected whaling campaign
McAfee researchers have uncovered a phishing campaign that targets major enterprises with fake voicemail messages. Since the targeted individuals include company executives, the researchers suggest …
Hackers who extorted Uber and LinkedIn plead guilty
In 2016, one American citizen and one Canadian national teamed up to compromise the systems of Uber and LinkedIn in order to steal user information, which they subsequently used in order to extort the …
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