Author: Ravie Lakshmanan
U.S Defense Warns of 3 New Malware Used by North Korean Hackers
Yesterday, on the 3rd anniversary of the infamous global WannaCry ransomware outbreak for which North Korea was blamed, the U.S. government released information about three new malware strains used by state-sponsored North Korean hackers.
Called COPPE…
Read MoreOver 4000 Android Apps Expose Users’ Data via Misconfigured Firebase Databases
More than 4,000 Android apps that use Google’s cloud-hosted Firebase databases are ‘unknowingly’ leaking sensitive information on their users, including their email addresses, usernames, passwords, phone numbers, full names, chat messages and location …
Read MoreThis Asia-Pacific Cyber Espionage Campaign Went Undetected for 5 Years
An advanced group of Chinese hackers has recently been spotted to be behind a sustained cyber espionage campaign targeting government entities in Australia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Brunei—which went undetected for at lea…
Read MoreFacebook Launches ‘Discover,’ A Secure Proxy to Browse the Internet for Free
More than six years after Facebook launched its ambitious Free Basics program to bring the Internet to the masses, the social network is back at it again with a new zero-rating initiative called Discover.
The service, available as a mobile web and And…
Read MoreChange This Browser Setting to Stop Xiaomi from Spying On Your Incognito Activities
If you own a Xiaomi smartphone or have installed the Mi browser app on any of your other brand Android device, you should enable a newly introduced privacy setting immediately to prevent the company from spying on your online activities.
The smartphon…
Read MoreNew Malware Jumps Air-Gapped Devices by Turning Power-Supplies into Speakers
A researcher from Israel’s Ben Gurion University of the Negev recently demonstrated a new kind of malware that could be used to covertly steal highly sensitive data from air-gapped and audio-gapped systems using a novel acoustic quirk in power supply u…
Read MoreNew Malware Jumps Air-Gapped Devices by Turning Power-Supplies into Speakers
Cybersecurity researcher Mordechai Guri from Israel’s Ben Gurion University of the Negev recently demonstrated a new kind of malware that could be used to covertly steal highly sensitive data from air-gapped and audio-gapped systems using a novel acous…
Read MoreHackers Breach LineageOS, Ghost, DigiCert Servers Using SaltStack Vulnerability
Days after cybersecurity researchers sounded the alarm over two critical vulnerabilities in the SaltStack configuration framework, a hacking campaign has already begun exploiting the flaws to breach servers of LineageOS, Ghost, and DigiCert.
Tracked a…
Read MoreCritical SaltStack RCE Bug (CVSS Score 10) Affects Thousands of Data Centers
Two severe security flaws have been discovered in the open-source SaltStack Salt configuration framework that could allow an adversary to execute arbitrary code on remote servers deployed in data centers and cloud environments.
The vulnerabilities wer…
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