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Apple Issues Security Patch for Remote Code Execution Bug Affecting Billions of its iOS, iPadOS, macOS and watch devices.

Recent flaw in Microsoft Exchange servers believed to have infected tens of thousands of businesses, government entities.

Bug in Apples Find My Feature Couldve Exposed Users Location Histories Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday disclosed two distinct design and implementation flaws in Apples crowdsourced Bluetooth location tracking system that can lead to a location correlation attack and unauthorized access to the location history of the past seven days, thereby by deanonymizing users. The findings are a consequence of an exhaustive review undertaken by the Open Wireless Link (OWL) project, a team of researche...

SolarWinds Blames Intern for solarwinds123 Password Lapse As cybersecurity researchers continue to piece together the sprawling SolarWinds supply chain attack, top executives of the Texas-based software services firm blamed an intern for a critical password lapse that went unnoticed for several years. The said password "solarwinds123" was originally believed to have been publicly accessible via a GitHub repository since June 17, 2018, before the misconfiguration was addressed on November 22, 2...

Study Finds Malicious Amazon Alexa Skills Can Easily Bypass Vetting Process

North Korean Hackers Targeting Defense Firms with ThreatNeedle Malware

Ukraine Says Russian Hackers Launched Supply-Chain Malware Attack Against its Government Agencies

Chinese Hackers Using Firefox Extension to Spy On Tibetan Organizations Cybersecurity researchers today unwrapped a new campaign aimed at spying on vulnerable Tibetan communities globally by deploying a malicious Firefox extension on target systems. "Threat actors aligned with the Chinese Communist Partys state interests delivered a customized malicious Mozilla Firefox browser extension that facilitated access and control of users Gmail accounts," Proofpoint said in an analysis. The Sunnyvale-b...

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...

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