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Gmail blocks 100 mn phishing attempts daily: Google Adv. New Delhi, June 9 (IANS) Google has said that every day, Gmail blocks more than 100 million phishing attempts and Google Play Protect scans over 100 billion apps for malware and other issues, as cyber attacks by nation-states and criminals are increasingly becoming brazen and effective. The past six months have seen some of the most widespread and alarming cyber attacks against the digital infrastructure in history — against public util...

Google has said that every day, Gmail blocks more than 100 million phishing attempts and Google Play Protect scans over 100 billion apps for malware and other issues, as cyber attacks by nation-states and criminals are increasingly becoming brazen and effective. The past six months have seen some of the most widespread and alarming cyber attacks against the digital infrastructure in history -- against public utilities, private sector companies, government entities and people living in democrac...

The past six months have seen some of the most widespread and alarming cyber attacks against the digital infrastructure in history — against publi...

Kaspersky trio spots Vista-era zero-days exploited through Chrome Wednesday, 09 June 2021 10:43 Kaspersky trio spots Vista-era zero-days exploited through Chrome Featured Pixabay Global security firm Kaspersky has revealed that targeted attacks against a number of companies, which it noticed in April, initially used a vulnerability in Googles Chrome browser and then linked this to two zero-days in the Microsoft Windows 10 kernel. Researchers Costin Raiu, Boris Larin and Alexey Ku...

While Google Play Protect scans over 100 billion apps for malware and other issues

Researchers at Google have identified a new Rowhammer exploit, dubbed Half-Double, which targets design flaws in some of the newer DRAM chips to alter their memory

Rowhammer attack rears its head once again; thanks mostly due to the improvement in modern memory chips.

Apple has not yet patched a WebKit vulnerability present in iOS and macOS despite a fix for the flaw being available for weeks.

Apple has not yet patched a WebKit vulnerability present in iOS and macOS despite a fix for the flaw being available for weeks. Credit: WebKit

Failure to check the object type provides an opportunity for an attacker to create a type confusion error capable of crashing Safari. Developing a more serious exploit that enables arbitrary code execution would require additional work to create exploit primitives that bypass WebKit defenses like Pointer Authentication Codes (cryptographic signatures for pointers on Arm-compatible devices). Becker nonetheless suggests this malware defense can be overcome by attackers, pointing to recent Project...