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New Silver Sparrow Malware Infected Nearly 30,000 Apple Macs Days after the first malware targeting Apple M1 chips was discovered in the wild, researchers have disclosed yet another previously undetected piece of malicious software that was found in about 30,000 Macs running Intel x86_64 and the iPhone makers M1 processors. However, the ultimate goal of the operation remains something of a conundrum, what with the lack of a next-stage or final payload leaving researchers unsure of its distribut...

The number of cybercrime cases reported in the national capital spiked during last years lockdown period, from nearly 2,000 in March to over 4,000 in May, as fraudsters adopted new methods to cheat people, the Delhi Police said on Friday. According to data shared by the city police, 62 per cent of the cybercrimes reported in Delhi were related to online financial fraud, 24 per cent were related to social media and 14 per cent to other cybercrimes. The data showed that from March to May 2020,...

In nine states, some jurisdictions have allowed voting via computer or app.

Following malicious hacks and the subsequent publication of "The Mother of all Password Dumps" containing more than 226 million unique e-mail addresses...

The cybercrime wing of the Mumbai Police has saved the lives of two persons, who posted suicidal thoughts on social media, an official said on Wednesday. The cyber polices Twitter analysis cell examined a tweet by a Class 12 student, who posted about feeling depressed and suicidal over his studies on February 14, the official said. A probe revealed that the person was a resident of Amaravati city, and accordingly, the police there were informed about the tweet, he said. A team was formed to...

Security experts understand the desire of entrepreneurs and election officials to use new voting methods to reach voters who may be disenfranchised by in-person or mail-in voting, but the security risk might be too great, they say.

A flaw in Telegram messaging app could have exposed users' secret messages, photos, and videos

Hackers Exploit IT Monitoring Tool Centreon to Target Several French Entities Centreon. The intrusion campaign — which breached "several French entities" — is said to have started in late 2017 and lasted until 2020, with the attacks particularly impacting web-hosting providers, said the French information security agency ANSSI in an advisory. "On compromised systems, ANSSI discovered the presence of a backdoor in the form of a webshell dropped on several Centreon servers exposed to the inte...

Unpatched ShareIT Android App Flaw Could Let Hackers Inject Malware Multiple unpatched vulnerabilities have been discovered in SHAREit, a popular app with over one billion downloads, that could be abused to leak a users sensitive data, execute arbitrary code, and possibly lead to remote code execution. The findings come from cybersecurity firm Trend Micros analysis of the Android version of the app, which allows users to share or transfer files between devices. But in a worrisome twist, the fla...

As the U.S. continues to chart the damage from the sweeping “SolarWinds” hack, France has announced that it too has suffered a large supply chain cyberattack. The news comes via a recently released technical report published by the Agence Nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information—or simply ANSSI—the French government’s chief cybersecurity agency. Like the U.S., French authorities have implied that Russia is probably involved.