U.S. Banned Chinese Telecom & Surveillance Cameras That Pose National Security Threat

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The US has banned the import and sale of Chinese telecom equipment and security camera systems from Huawei, ZTE, Hytera Communications, Hikvision, Dahua, Pacific Network Corp, along with its subsidiary ComNet (USA) LLC, and China Unicom (Americas) Operations Limited. Reports …

U.S. Govt. Apps Bundled Russian Code With Ties to Mobile Malware Developer

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A recent scoop by Reuters revealed that mobile apps for the U.S. Army and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were integrating software that sends visitor data to a Russian company called Pushwoosh, which claims to be based in …

Massive Twitter Breach – Over 5.4 Million users’ Data Leaked Online

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It has been discovered recently that over 5.4 million personal records of Twitter users have been stolen by threat actors and publicly exposed on a hacker forum for free. While to accomplish this illicit activity threat actors exploited an API …

Chrome Zero-Day Bug Actively Exploited in the Wild – Google Emergency Update!!

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The Chrome web browser for desktops recently received an emergency security update to address a zero-day vulnerability that has been found to be actively exploited in the wild. As part of this emergency security update, Google has patched the eighth …

Whatsapp Data of Over 500 Million Users Phone Numbers around the Globe Up For Sale

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In a recent data security breach, a threat actor posted over 500 million active WhatsApp users’ phone numbers for sale on a well-known hacker platform. The database reportedly includes information from WhatsApp users in 84 different countries.  The Cybernews report …

Will Passwordless Solutions Become the Leading Approach to Secure Identities?

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Password issues are still a constant struggle for organizations. The amount of time IT teams spend managing user passwords and credentials is increasing every year. An Organization has released the findings of a new report that surveyed 750 IT and …

King Of Malware “Emotet” Launching Aggressive Attack Via XLS Doc & New Payloads

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Emotet, An infamous banking trojan-based malware family with a sophisticated attack background, returns with a new attack strain via XLS documents using targeted phishing emails and delivers the new IcedID and Bumblebee payloads. Emotet built its infrastructure over the year …

Why Website Captchas are Vulnerable to Cyber-Attacks?

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CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA are common on all websites that require user interaction and completion of online forms. Although they were a bit annoying in the beginning, as the technology driving CAPTCHAs evolved to the Google reCAPTCHA standard, they have become …

Microsoft Said that Hackers Use Google Ads to Deliver Royal Ransomware Payloads

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According to a recent analysis from Microsoft’s Security Threat Intelligence team, in one of its campaigns, hackers used Google Ads to spread several payloads, which resulted in the deployment of the Royal ransomware. Microsoft is tracking the group as ‘DEV-0569’ …

Chinese Hackers Abuse Google Drive to Drop Malware on Govt Networks

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Government, research, and academic institutions worldwide were targeted by a spearphishing campaign by state-funded Chinese hackers. As part of this campaign, hackers deliver custom malware that remains hidden in Google Drive. Researchers attribute the attacks to a group of cyber …