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minute read Share this article: The zero-day flaw research group has revised its disclosure of the technical details of vulnerabilities in the hopes of speeding up the release and adoption of fixes. Google Project Zero will now give organizations a 30-day grace period to patch zero-day flaws it discovers in a new disclosure policy revealed this week aimed at speeding up the time it takes for patches to be adopted. Known for discovering a number of high-profile zero days—in Googl...

A malicious ‘Jungle Run’ app tricked security protections to make it into the Apple App Store, scamming users out of money with a casino-like functionality.

minute read Share this article: Threat actors targeted compromised Exchange servers to host malicious Monero cryptominer in an “unusual attack,” Sophos researchers discovered. Cryptojacking can be added to the list of threats that face any unpatched Exchange servers that remain vulnerable to the now-infamous ProxyLogon exploit, new research has found. Researchers discovered the threat actors using Exchange servers compromised using the highly publicized exploit chain—which su...

minute read Share this article: The IoT-targeted malware has also added new exploits for initial compromise, for Huawei, Realtek and Dasan GPON devices. Several variants of the Gafgyt Linux-based botnet malware family have incorporated code from the infamous Mirai botnet, researchers have discovered. Gafgyt (a.k.a. Bashlite) is a botnet that was first uncovered in 2014. It targets vulnerable internet of things (IoT) devices like Huawei routers, Realtek routers and ASUS devices, wh...

Check Point Mobile Security Report 2021 Says Four Out of 10 Mobiles Are Vulnerable to Cyber-Attacks Check Point says that almost every organization experienced at least one mobile malware attack in 2020. By Tasneem Akolawala | Updated: 14 April 2021 14:29 IST Check Point says that 97 percent of organizations globally in 2020 faced mobile threats Highlights Research shows 40 percent mobiles are vulnerable to cyberattacks Check Point says there was a 15 percent in...

In a veritable cyber-SWAT action, the Feds remotely removed the infections without warning businesses beforehand.

Attackers are filling out and submitting web-based "contact us" forms, thus evading email spam filters.

Hank Schless, senior security solutions manager at Lookout, discusses how to secure remote working via mobile devices.

Clubhouse denies it was ‘breached’ and says the data is out there for anyone to grab. Clubhouse, the startup invitation-only chat app, is the latest social-media platform to see mammoth troves of user data collected and posted in underground forums. An SQL file containing the personal data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users has been posted in a hacker forum for free. Names, user IDs, photo URL, number of followers, Twitter and Instagram handles, dates that accounts were created and even the pro...

minute read Share this article: An estimated 32 million, of the half-billion of Facebook account details posted online, were tied to US-based accounts. More than 533 million Facebook users had their personal information posted to a public hacker forum, a move that is raising concerns about an uptick in cybercrime leveraging the credentials. The publicly released Facebook user data is believed to be part of a 2019 “Add Friend” Facebook security bug exploited by hackers at the t...