Items tagged with security
Like technology and life at large, even familiar malware continues to evolve—to wit, Microsoft warns that MacOS malware XCSSET has undergone another major evolution since earlier this year, bringing key changes to its "browser targeting...
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A company called Flock Safety is pitching a new turnkey aviation program for private enterprises to lease security drones formerly used by police departments. Part of the pitch is that these drones can track shoplifters as they flee the...
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Hackers are keeping Cloudflare busy these days with increasingly bigger distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks at an alarmingly frenetic pace. In a post on X, Cloudflare said its cybersecurity mechanisms autonomously blocked a...
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The Satori Threat Intelligence and Research Team at Human Security have discovered an ad and click fraud campaign dubbed SlopAds. The operation resulted in over 224 apps that have been downloaded 38 million times in 228 countries. It was a...
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While AMD is keeping its nine-year-old socket AM4 kicking with yet another Ryzen 5000 series processor launch, Microsoft is getting ready to send its decade-old operating system, Windows 10, into retirement. It's not a total retirement...
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UEFI secure boot was designed to block malicious code from sneaking into your PC's BIOS boot-up process. However, a newly discovered ransomware dubbed HybridPetya somehow found a way to circumvent this. Cybersecurity firm ESET discovered...
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Oxford University Computer Science Alumni and Artificial Intelligence researcher, Eito Miyamura, revealed that his team was able to trick ChatGPT into divulging sensitive email data, using some relatively simple methods. They were able to...
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Plex, the popular tool that enables users to stream their own media, has suffered another data breach and is urging users to change their passwords. This isn’t the first time the company has suffered a data breach of this kind, as it...
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If your system is throwing more UAC prompts asking for admin privileges and some application installs or repairs are failing, it may be due to a recent security update for Windows and Windows Server. Thankfully, Microsoft has posted a very...
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We have reported several malware campaigns where hackers buy expensive malware programs from various sources across the web. Recently, a cybersecurity firm, Proofpoint, has revealed that hackers are now using a free, open-source malware...
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Armis Lab, an intelligence division at cybersecurity firm Armis, has identified 10 security flaws in Copeland software that could allow hackers to gain unauthorized access to critical systems within supermarkets and cold storage...
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Cloudflare just announced on X that it blocked the highest DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack in history, which was an 11.5 Terabits per second DDoS attack that came as a UDP (User Datagram Protocol) flood. It was brief, about 35...
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Android users are currently at risk of a scarily advanced malware that reportedly uses Meta's advertising platforms (like Facebook and Instagram) to hunt for users' PINs, messages, and other sensitive data. The malware which has been...
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Apple device owners that also use WhatsApp have cause for concern. The instant messaging app is affected by zero-day vulnerabilities that are actively being exploited in the wild.
MacBook, iPhones, and other Apple products are...
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Updated: 9/1/2025 - 4:58PM ET
Google reached out to HotHardware to make our team aware that reports of a Gmail security threat were false, though several reputable news outlets were reporting otherwise. It is difficult to determine where...
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We are not expecting a decline in the number of data breaches and ransomware campaigns anytime soon. At least not at a time when AI is becoming an enabler for the malicious activities of black hat hackers. We’ve published a lot of reports...
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From the onset of the AI race, many have expressed fear about the potential abuse of AI, and many instances have proved that this fear is well-founded. A few months ago, a report revealed how hackers crack passwords with AI. Recently, the...
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Google’s Android operating system has historically offered a more open approach compared to Apple’s iOS, giving users more freedom when it comes to customization and apps. However, the company has laid out some new policy changes coming to...
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The cruelty of black hat hackers seems to know no bounds as they operate with complete disregard for ethical considerations. Just a few days ago, we reported on a vicious ransomware attack on a kidney dialysis organization, and prior to...
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Windows 10's imminent sunset on October 14th has been the subject of much ink lately. Windows 11 is a free upgrade, but some users wish to stick with the older version due to device or app incompatibility, fear of a botched upgrade, or...
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As was shown in a recent report about a vicious cyber attack that targeted kidney failure patients, cyber criminals show no mercy. Now a new report from Microsoft has revealed a growing deployment of ClickFix social engineering tactics by...
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Black hat hackers are often greedy, and their desperation to amass ill-gotten wealth can drive them to do virtually anything. This was evident in a recent data breach, which exposed the sensitive information of over 2.7 million patients at...
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