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More than 1,700 product listings have been removed over the last three months from e-commerce sites and retail shops in Singapore for making fraudulent COVID-19 claims. These include test kits, herbs, traditional medicines, health supplements, and hand sanitisers. The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) said it had intensified its monitoring of local e-commerce platforms and retail […] More
Image: Annie Spratt The details of 44 million Pakistani mobile subscribers have leaked online this week, ZDNet has learned. The leak comes after a hacker tried to sell a package containing 115 million Pakistani mobile user records last month for a price of $2.1 million in bitcoin. ZDNet has obtained copies of both data sets. […] More
German software group SAP announced on Monday plans to notify approximately 9% of its 440,000 customer base about security holes identified in some of its cloud-based products. According to SAP, the issues were discovered following an internal review of its platform, which found that some of its cloud products did not meet one or more […] More
A hacker group has attempted to hijack nearly one million WordPress sites in the last seven days, according to a security alert issued today by cyber-security firm Wordfence. The company says that since April 28, this particular hacker group has engaged in a hacking campaign of massive proportions that caused a 30x uptick in the […] More
Microsoft has launched the Azure Sphere Research Challenge, offering approved security researchers individual rewards of up to $100,000 for dangerous exploits that break the security of Azure Sphere, its Linux-based platform for internet-connected (IoT) devices. Azure Sphere consists of a custom Linux kernel and OS, a connected microcontroller, and a cloud-based security service that ensures […] More
State-backed hacking groups are targeting healthcare and other organisations involved in national and international responses to coronavirus pandemic, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the US Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have warned. Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups — sophisticated hacking groups generally linked to a nation-state […] More
Image via now-defunct Infinity Black website Europol announced today the arrest of five Polish hackers who were part of the Infinity Black hacking group. The group formed in late 2018 and was primarily known for operating the Infinity[.]black website, where they sold access to “collections” of user credentials. The collections were assembled together by gathering […] More
Mozilla has released today Firefox 76 to the Stable desktop channel for Windows, macOS, and Linux. This new release comes with with bug fixes, new features, and security patches. The highlight of the Firefox 76 release is a suite of new features added to Firefox’s built-in password manager, also known as Firefox Lockwise (available at […] More
