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The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) and the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) were involved in an operation to crack down on stolen credit card numbers. Contained in an opening statement that was accepted into Hansard rather than read out by newly installed director-general of ASD, Rachel Noble, on Wednesday evening last week, ASD said the […] More
For the past years, a mysterious group has been churning out trojanized hacking tools on an almost daily basis, tools that are meant to infect fellow hackers and gain access to their computers. According to a report published today by cyber-security firm Cybereason, the trojanized tools were infected with a version of the njRAT malware […] More
Google has removed today an Android app from the official Play Store that was developed by the Iranian government to test and keep track of COVID-19 (coronavirus) infections. Before being removed from the Play Store, controversy surrounded the app, and several users accused the Iranian government of using the COVID-19 scare to trick citizens into […] More
Image: Brave The Brave browser is working on a feature that will randomize its “fingerprint” every time a user visits a website in an attempt to preserve the user’s privacy. Brave’s decision comes as online advertisers and analytics firms are moving away from tracking users via cookies to using fingerprints. This shift began last year, […] More
It’s no secret that credential theft remains a primary attack vector for cybercriminals. According to the FBI’s 2019 Internet Crime Report, phishing was the most widely reported cybercrime last year. Recently, we’ve seen a sharp uptick in the number of phishing attempts that leveraged the paranoia surrounding COVID-19 (coronavirus). The bitter truth is that legacy authentication via passwords […] More
The more things change, the more they stay the same. The vanity award scam is one such thing. You may have heard of Who’s Who. The original Who’s Who was published back in 1849 and is still being published. It’s currently in its 172nd edition. As it was created, and as the official publication still […] More
Google has rolled out an update for its two-factor physical security keys for protecting Google Accounts that makes it easier to enroll the keys on Android and macOS devices. Google users can register the security keys on Android devices running Android 7.0 “N” and newer using Chrome version 70 and up. The keys can also […] More
NordVPN has plugged a hole in the company’s payment platform which leaked sensitive customer data. As reported by The Register, the vulnerability was made public on HackerOne in February, a bug bounty platform in which researchers can privately disclose security issues to vendors in return for credit and financial rewards. Disclosed by a researcher under […] More
