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Australian airline company, Qantas, has revealed that it suffered a sophisticated cyberattack that affected over 5.7 million of its customers' data. In an update on the incident, the company revealed that of the 5.7 million unique customer...
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A group of security researchers has developed an alarming tapjacking attack called TapTrap, which allows zero-permission apps to carry out actions that are not displayed on the screen. With TapTrap, an app can escape Android's security...
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Since last year, Atomic Stealer has been on the rampage, gaining notoriety as a formidable weapon for exfiltrating sensitive data from MacBook users. A recent report has revealed that this info stealer has evolved into an even more...
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DigitalMint, a well-known financial cybersecurity firm, has revealed that one of its former employees is being investigated by the US Department of Justice. The probe centers on allegations that this individual colluded with ransomware...
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A few weeks ago, we warned about the security dangers posed by stalkerware apps. We specifically mentioned that they are not only dangerous for victims, but also for stalkers, and a newly published report only reinforces those claims...
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You should always be suspicious of unsolicited communications via email, text, and phone calls, especially if you are being asked to provide any kind of personal information. That falls under the category of Safe Computing 101. Lest anyone...
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If you use Microsoft Authenticator or know people who do, here's a good heads-up. Keeping with the plan to discontinue Authenticator's password functionality in a bid to transition to passkeys, the software's autofill functionality will...
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Google Threat Analysis has uncovered a zero-day vulnerability that impacts Chrome, and Google is aware that it has been exploited in the wild. Google has now patched this vulnerability, and Chrome users should update their browsers...
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It is not a good time to be a network administrator, especially for businesses with Brother printers. Security researchers published a laundry list of vulnerabilities affecting a total of 748 printer models, most of them (and the worst of...
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Food retail giant Ahold Delhaize, parent company of well-known American brands like Food Lion, Stop & Shop, Giant Food, and Hannaford, has confirmed a significant data breach impacting over 2.24 million individuals. The incident, stemming...
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If you follow Microsoft news, you may have heard about the Windows Resiliency Initiative that started last year. While at first glance this may appear to be just another marketing-driven campaign to fill a row of buzzword bingo, it appears...
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Earlier this month, Microsoft children's account users complained that non-Microsoft browsers (including Google Chrome) were either crashing or unable to launch. Microsoft has clarified the situation and is actively working to resolve the...
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It might be high time to rotate your least-changed passwords, if not all of them. The research team at Cybernews has been quietly tracking stolen credential datasets released this year, and the figures aren't good: a total of 16 billion...
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The long-held belief that MacBooks are impervious to malware has been overwhelmingly debunked, and that's probably stale by now. We've published several stories on malware infestations targeting macOS. The new story here, sedulously baked...
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Linux server administrators, it's time to get your patch on. The boffins at Qualys, a security firm well known for its excellent SSL configuration tester, found a pair of security vulnerabilities that combined can grant any unprivileged...
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Security researchers have revealed that the ASUS Armoury Crate software has a serious vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2025-3464) that could allow hackers to gain admin access to computers.
The ASUS Armoury Crate software was designed to...
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A few months ago, a group of cybercriminals, Scattered Spider, launched sophisticated cyber attacks that bypassed key security infrastructures of several retail companies in the UK. The group has become even more notorious and has...
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If you're like me, you spend part of your morning sifting through your inbox to separate the important stuff from the deluge of junk mail that fills it up each and every day (including Gmail accounts, despite Google's best efforts). Even...
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A newly disclosed Secure Boot vulnerability is putting a large number of PCs at risk of bootkit attacks, with security researchers urging immediate patching. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-3052, was uncovered by Binarly Research and...
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A few weeks ago, we reported on Google adding a privacy feature that helps users remove personal information from search engines. To further protect users' personal information, Google has patched a vulnerability that allows attackers to...
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A new variant of the BADBOX malware campaign has taken root in over a million Android-based devices worldwide, and if you’ve picked up a cheap smart TV box or projector off Amazon or AliExpress lately, you might be part of the problem...
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The FBI has announced that the Play ransomware gang has masterminded several sophisticated cyberattacks, which have compromised key security infrastructures in about 900 organizations in Europe, North America, and South America.
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