2021-06-22 15:39
The ongoing vaccination campaigns and easing of travel restrictions have encouraged millions of people to prepare for a relaxing vacation after months of lockdown and social distancing.
D… Read More
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2021-06-22 07:19
A bizarre bug has been discovered in iOS that can cause an iPhone to crash when it attempts to join a Wi-Fi network with a particular name.
What’s the offending name? Well, I don&rs&hell…Read More
2021-06-18 15:18
According to a report by Catalin Cimpanu at The Record, authorities in South Korea have filed charges against employees at a computer repair store.
What are the nine charged employees of… Read More
2021-06-18 11:24
A recent phishing campaign targeting Windows machines is attempting to infect users with one of the most recent versions of the Agent Tesla remote access Trojan (RAT).
The malicious campa… Read More
2021-06-18 10:41
Stop Cyberbullying Day has been promoting good digital citizenship practices for more than a decade to make the digital world a better and more welcoming place for everyone.
This year, we… Read More
2021-06-17 22:32
In December last year, we reported how the email and mailing addresses of some 270,000 Ledger customers had been published on a hacking forum following a data breach.
At the time we warne… Read More
2021-06-16 15:02
Microsoft will retire the Windows 10 operating system on October 10, 2025. It’s the first time the company puts an expiration date on its current operating system, paving the way for i… Read More
2021-06-16 14:19
Online scammers use the name of international shipping company UPS to dupe consumers into participating in a survey giveaway scam.
The scam, recently spotted by Bitdefender Antispam Lab… Read More
2021-06-15 15:38
Our mobile devices are not just a means to communicate with others. They’ve evolved into a data storage device, a video and sound recorder, as well as an easy way to access our bank ac… Read More
2021-06-14 12:58
Consumers are sometimes skeptical about warnings that smartphones face just as many security threats as regular computers. While some security experts might seem over-zealous shouting about… Read More
2021-06-10 08:13
Bitdefender researchers warn about a new wave of attacks that infect Android devices and steal personal details.
Several popular apps have been impersonated and packed with malware… Read More
2021-06-08 15:17
The most extensive data leak collection to date, dubbed ‘RockYou2021’, was dumped on popular hacking forums earlier this month.
According to a CyberNews report, a forum user p… Read More
2021-06-08 13:44
Following a public debate, GitHub changed its policies regarding exploits, malware and vulnerability research so that the company’s position is much clearer when it comes to action and… Read More
2021-06-08 11:40
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has revealed that it was able to decrypt and snoop on the private messages sent via a supposedly secure messaging app used by criminals… because th… Read More
2021-06-08 11:26
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has seized more than half of Colonial Pipeline’s $4.4 million ransom payment towards the infamous cybercriminal group known as Darkside.
According… Read More
2021-06-07 12:55
The HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has warned the British public to be vigilant against scams and fraud attempts, as the remaining annual renewal packs are due to arrive via post this week… Read More
2021-06-07 12:47
US authorities charged Alla Witte for helping build TrickBot, a type of malware that was active for many years in a worldwide campaign, defrauding numerous people.
Taking down much of Tri… Read More
2021-06-04 11:55
Google announced that it’s strengthening the security of its Chrome browser by extending the functionality of Enhanced Safe Browsing to let users filter out malicious extensions.
On… Read More
2021-06-04 10:54
Security researchers have identified a vulnerability in the Fancy Product Designer plugin for WordPress that attackers are using right now in the wild, allowing them to upload malware to web… Read More
2021-06-04 10:49
The Biden administration is calling on businesses to take measures against a growing ransomware threat across the United States, urging both private and public organizations to raise effecti… Read More
2021-06-04 09:15
As countries across the globe ease Covid-19 restrictions for travel, consumers are preparing for a much-anticipated summer vacation. However, as the hospitality sector is off to a steady reb… Read More
2021-06-03 14:25
Facebook announced that WhatsApp won’t limit the app’s functionality for users who don’t accept the company’s proposed policy changes, backtracking on an earlier anno… Read More
2021-06-03 13:54
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a set of best practices for mapping threat actor moves based on the MITRE ATT&CK framework. The objective is to… Read More
2021-06-02 13:21
TSA’s new directive mandating pipeline operators take cybersecurity seriously is being met with skepticism by experts. That includes rumors of a $7,000 penalty for each day that a brea… Read More
2021-06-02 12:56
In the early days of ransomware things were fairly simple: malware would infect your company’s infrastructure, encrypting your valuable data with a secret key that was only known to yo… Read More
2021-06-02 12:49
Russian citizen Kirill Victorovich Firsov will serve 30 months in prison for administrating an underground website that fueled the cybercriminal community for nearly seven years.
Accordin… Read More
2021-05-31 16:31
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and FBI announced that a spearphishing campaign targeting government organizations, intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), and no… Read More
2021-05-31 14:20
Amid increasing cyber-enabled financial crimes, Interpol announced its latest successful operation, which intercepted a whopping $83 million in illicit funds.
According to a press release… Read More
2021-05-28 13:56
The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) this week announced a directive that seeks to thwart cyber-attacks aimed at the oil & gas industry.
Two weeks after the resounding… Read More
2021-05-27 14:30
City of London and Metropolitan Police arrested eight men for allegedly sending fake messages and trying to trick people into paying a fee to retrieve a parcel, stealing their login credenti… Read More
2021-05-27 08:10
A day before the Black Lives Matter movement marked the first anniversary of George Floyd’s death, online scammers set the bait to lure supporters from across the globe with a new cryp… Read More
2021-05-26 13:09
E-commerce reached new heights during the pandemic as consumers interacted more with digital platforms and web apps. Then, cybercriminals stepped up their game, capitalizing on changes in di… Read More
2021-05-26 08:44
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has said in a flash announcement that the Conti ransomware group is responsible for at least 16 attacks targeting US healthcare and first responder networ… Read More
2021-05-25 14:25
Microsoft is preparing to retire the Internet Explorer 11 browser on June 15, 2022, but there are a few important caveats. If we consider those exceptions, it looks like IE will be around in… Read More
2021-05-25 13:59
Apple Mac users are being advised to update their operating system as a matter of priority, after malicious hackers have discovered a way of bypassing the privacy protections built into Appl… Read More
2021-05-25 10:58
We’re 15 months into the pandemic, and although many have learned to embrace work-from-home and social distancing measures, the struggles of isolation and lack of social contact have c… Read More
2021-05-25 10:46
As travel restrictions begin to ease, the UK’s national reporting center for fraud and cybercrime is warning the British public to watch out for holiday fraud.
According to the… Read More
2021-05-24 16:14
A federal grand jury indicted an employee of the FBI’s Kansas City Division for taking classified documents at home, for years on end, related to counterterrorism procedures, counterin… Read More
2021-05-24 08:00
Threat actors are relentless when it comes to recycling old ruses to fool internet users and steal their money. While the ongoing pandemic and vaccination campaigns ushered in a new wave of… Read More
2021-05-21 14:38
Security researchers have discovered a new massive spam email campaign designed to push the latest version of STRRAT malware, according to data shared by Microsoft.
Ransomware attacks are… Read More
2021-05-21 12:47
Despite many enforcement challenges seen throughout the years, European Union Data Protection Authorities, operating under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), have issued a whoppi… Read More
2021-05-21 10:41
A group of hackers targeting vulnerable network attached storage (NAS) devices sold by QNAP Systems Inc. has shut down operations after extorting regular users and small businesses of almost… Read More
2021-05-20 10:43
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has been providing the public with reliable cybercrime reporting systems for 20 years. In that time, the IC3 has developed into a go-to… Read More
2021-05-19 15:54
I hope you’re being cautious if you’re installing extensions from the Chrome Web Store for your browser and care about your online security.
Because it’s reported that a… Read More
2021-05-18 09:01
Apple is talking up the efforts it makes to police the iOS App Store, revealing that during 2020 it rejected more than 215,000 iPhone apps for violating its privacy policies.
In a news re… Read More
2021-05-17 15:08
Threat actors are again targeting taxpayers as they prepare their returns in a new phishing campaign that seeks to infect recipients’ machines with Remote Access Trojans.
Bitdefende… Read More
2021-05-14 14:41
A leading manufacturer of gaming hardware has warned internet users to be wary of downloading fake versions of free software it distributes to overclock GPUs.
According to a blog post by… Read More
2021-05-14 12:41
Blackmailers are having a field day capitalizing on victims of the Ledger data leak from July 2020. Nearly a year after cybercriminals gained access to the e-commerce database of the France… Read More
2021-05-12 15:28
Facebook announced a few months ago that the upcoming policy changes would require non-European users to accept new terms and conditions or be forced to stop using the service. From the look… Read More
2021-05-12 13:39
The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (HmbBfDI) has imposed a three-month ban prohibiting Facebook from gathering and processing German WhatsApp users&rsquo&hell…Read More
2021-05-12 07:15
Scammers continue to piggyback on the pandemic and vaccination campaigns in a new giveaway vaccine survey scam purportedly from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
According to Bitdefender Antis… Read More
2021-05-11 15:56
Unknown actors took control over a quarter of all Tor network relays to launch man-in-the-middle attacks, target bitcoin addresses and much more.
Tor is a software that lets users obfusca… Read More
2021-05-11 12:01
In 2020, The National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC) Active Cyber Defense (ACD) program managed to curb the online scam economy in a record-breaking takedown of 700,595 scams.
The a… Read More
2021-05-10 13:12
Tulsa, Oklahoma, is reportedly the latest in a long line of American cities to have fallen victim to a ransomware attack.
The attack, which occurred on Friday evening, caused the city&rsq&hell…Read More
2021-05-07 13:34
Insurance giant AXA has said that it is no longer writing cyberinsurance policies in France that cover ransom payments to extortionists.
AXA’s decision, which appears to be a first… Read More
2021-05-07 12:15
A study from the Department of Computer Science and Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University draws attention to security and privacy risks that stem from recycling mo… Read More
2021-05-07 10:00
Computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, is worried about the privacy of future internet generations.
In an interview with BBC… Read More
2021-05-06 16:52
A yet-unknown threat actor launched a DDoS attack against the internet network used by the public administration and other official institutions in Belgium, briefly bringing the system down… Read More
2021-05-06 12:41
As the British public prepares for a long-awaited summer of festivals and holidays, scammers are several steps ahead in their endless effort to profit off consumers’ behavior.
With… Read More
2021-05-06 10:00
Cybersecurity teams have historically been hampered by lax IT budgets, a shortage of skills and alert fatigue, which leaves security analysts overwhelmed by the sheer amount of alerts to par… Read More
2021-05-06 07:00
The Annual World Password Day painfully reminds us that the concept of people choosing their own passwords seems flawed. Thankfully, things are getting better, and password security is evolv… Read More
2021-05-05 12:39
Web scraping, or data scraping, is the process of extracting and collecting data from websites. Today, data harvesting is mostly automated, relying on specific tools. On a much smaller scale… Read More
2021-05-04 13:17
The latest revised draft of Australia’s primary school curriculum proposes to teach students about cybersecurity from the age of five.
The newly proposed curriculum for children age… Read More
2021-05-04 11:00
Apple this week issued out-of-band updates for mobile customers to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities that let attackers execute remote code on their iDevices. The Cupertino-based tech giant… Read More
2021-04-30 07:18
DigitalOcean, the popular cloud-hosting provider, has told some of its customers that their billing details were exposed due to what it described as a “flaw.”
In an email sent… Read More
2021-04-29 09:39
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) this week released an overview of supply chain threats. Its purpos… Read More
2021-04-28 17:33
The online musical instrument marketplace Reverb has suffered a data breach which has exposed the personal details of 5.6 million users.
Security researcher Bob Diachenko, who has a long… Read More
2021-04-28 12:08
The FBI has offered millions of passwords obtained from seized Emotet malware domains to HIBP (Have I Been Pwned) to make it easier to alert impacted users and companies.
Law enforcement… Read More
2021-04-28 10:17
A threat actor named Pompompurin has posted a treasure trove of 250 million personal records belonging to US residents.
The database containing 263 GB of personally identifiable informati… Read More
2021-04-27 10:46
The Metropolitan Police Department (DC Police) has confirmed a cyberattack after ransomware operators allegedly breached their systems, leaking screenshots of stolen data.
The threat act… Read More
2021-04-27 07:57
Spammers have laid down seemingly harmless traps for users in search of adult-themed fun over the Internet.
In the last month, attackers bombarded thousands of inboxes with explicit spam… Read More
2021-04-26 09:53
Phishing attacks masquerading as QuickBooks invoices are targeting users of the popular accounting software in an attempt to infect victim’s devices with the infamous Dridex banking Tr… Read More
2021-04-23 12:44
Users of Apple products have long loved the ability to wirelessly share files with each other, using AirDrop to transmit files between their iPhones and Macbooks.
But researchers at the T… Read More
2021-04-22 14:59
The bad news
Attackers are exploiting the COVID-19 vaccine apps to deploy malware to Android devices. Since the outburst of the pandemic, they haven’t missed any opportunity to… Read More
2021-04-22 14:59
The bad news
Attackers are exploiting the COVID-19 vaccine apps to deploy malware to Android devices. Since the outburst of the pandemic, they haven’t missed any opportunity to… Read More
2021-04-22 11:34
Facebook has announced that it managed to take down two significant groups of hackers based in Palestine that were working to compromise Windows, Android, and Apple devices by using all kind… Read More
2021-04-22 09:39
An infamous group of ransomware operators is pressuring Apple supplier Quanta Computer to pay $50 million to keep stolen MacBook designs under wraps, following a successful breach of its ser… Read More
2021-04-21 13:55
A security researcher has found a front-end vulnerability in Facebook that allows him to link emails to the user’s account correctly. Facebook initially dismissed the bug report, which… Read More
2021-04-20 08:13
The UK’s National Fraud & Cyber Crime Reporting Center (Action Fraud) has launched a national awareness campaign to warn citizens about the importance of protecting their pens… Read More
2021-04-19 14:25
Google’s Project Zero is making essential changes to its disclosure policies to allow developers more time to fix the problems while still being able to enforce strict policies if the… Read More
2021-04-19 12:57
Notorious FIN7 gang stole payment card details from retailers around the worldCybercrime gang posed as penetration testing firm to recruit hackersA key member of the FIN7 cybercrime gang &nd&hell…Read More
2021-04-19 10:27
A recent study analyzing the most effective social media phishing scams shows that LinkedIn-related emails were among the most successful entry points in the first quarter of 2021.
Accord… Read More
2021-04-19 07:57
Installing protection on all the devices covered by your subscription is the next best thing you can do after choosing Bitdefender for protection. It’s about staying safe in an unsafe… Read More
2021-04-16 17:02
Security researchers have identified several vulnerabilities in how apps open and handle URLs, leading to 1-click code execution actions that don’t require user input.
It’s ea… Read More
2021-04-16 16:02
The Swedish authorities have decided to halt an investigation into a data breach supposedly perpetrated by the Russian military intelligence, GRU, over the course of a few months in 2017 and… Read More
2021-04-16 09:27
The Biden administration this week has issued a statement blaming the Russian government for the SolarWinds supply chain attack, imposing costs on the rival nation for its actions.
A leng… Read More
2021-04-15 08:21
Users of the employment-oriented online service are being targeted with an assortment of phishing emails and scams in an attempt to hijack their LinkedIn accounts or promote fake LinkedIn em… Read More
2021-04-14 16:59
Collaboration platforms used by employees have become a prime target for attackers seeking to take advantage of telework and the security risks this new paradigm entails, according to new re… Read More
2021-04-13 18:13
Company hit with ransomware was unable to deliver food to supermarketsFirm’s director says he suspects hackers exploited Microsoft Exchange Server flawShoppers at Dutch supermarkets ma… Read More
2021-04-13 11:34
Last Thursday, a Wichita Falls resident was arrested for allegedly attempting to bomb an AWS data center in Virginia.
According to the US Department of Justice (DOJ), 28-year Seth Aaron P… Read More
2021-04-12 16:48
A couple of security researchers have identified a critical, zero-day vulnerability in Zoom that allowed them to take control of the remote devices without user interaction.
Taking over a… Read More
2021-04-12 12:29
Online habits have changed dramatically over the past year, and adults are not the only ones spending more time online. Since the pandemic hit, limits on screen time for kids were tossed out… Read More
2021-04-09 14:45
Fact: Half a billion LinkedIn users are in for an unpleasant surprise, as scraped datasets of their profile information are up for sale right now on an underground forum.
The database was… Read More
2021-04-09 11:14
Police specialists in Belgium managed to crack an encrypted messaging service, revealing detailed information about cocaine shipments into Antwerp, Belgium.
Belgian police issued a statem… Read More
2021-04-08 13:08
Several COVID-19-related scams continue to tease internet users into believing they are about to receive a large sum on behalf of non-existent United Nations programs, Bitdefender Antispam L… Read More
2021-04-07 15:38
A group of United States senators from both sides of the aisle sent a strongly worded letter to a few major tech companies and advertisers, warning them about the dangers of collecting user… Read More
2021-04-06 16:24
Tassilo Heinrich, a California resident arrested a few months ago by the FBI for alleged involvement in a Shopify data breach, has been indicted by a grand jury.
When we hear of data brea… Read More
2021-04-06 14:59
Video game publisher Activision has warned the gaming community of hidden RAT Trojans masquerading as Call of Duty cheat tools.
The company behind Call of Duty: Warzone and the popular Gu… Read More
2021-04-05 21:00
Cybersecurity can often seem like a topic for the business sector. But regular consumers are equally affected by cybercrime, directly or indirectly. Bitdefender this week has published its a… Read More
2021-04-05 14:46
Threat actors working on behalf of North Korea posed as security researchers on social media in a campaign to compromise employees of security companies, according to a Google report.
The… Read More
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