The Coronavirus crisis introduces critical operational challenges to business continuity, placing high stress on organizations’ management. As a result, CIOs and CISOs face a double challenge on the cyber risk front – apart from the new risks that the mass ...
If you own a Xiaomi smartphone or have installed the Mi browser app on any of your other brand Android device, you should enable a newly introduced privacy setting immediately to prevent the company from spying on your online activities. ...
Cybersecurity researcher Mordechai Guri from Israel’s Ben Gurion University of the Negev recently demonstrated a new kind of malware that could be used to covertly steal highly sensitive data from air-gapped and audio-gapped systems using a novel acoustic quirk in ...
For some time now, Google Calendar users have been vulnerable to a rather nasty type of spam that seems to have gained momentum lately. It works like this: an email containing an invitation to an event is sent by a ...
Facebook has introduced a new feature in its platform that has been designed to make it easier for bug bounty hunters to find security flaws in Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Android applications. Since almost all Facebook-owned apps by default use ...
Big changes on the IoT malware scene. Security researchers have spotted a version of the Mirai IoT malware that can run on a vast range of architectures, and even on Android devices. This Mirai malware strain is called Sora, a ...
Microsoft has released multiple microcode updates that mitigate additional variants of the speculative code execution vulnerabilities affecting Intel processors. The patches cover the recently disclosed CPU flaws generically referred to as Foreshadow or L1 Terminal Fault. All security gaps covered by ...
Users advised to stop using and/or uninstall plugins ASAP to stop Pretty Grievous Pwnage A professor of Computer Security at the Münster University of Applied Sciences has warned that popular email encryption tool Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) might actually allow ...
LG (Life’s Good) has patched two severe vulnerabilities that reside in the default keyboard on all mainstream LG smartphones, including its flagship handsets; the flaws could be used to remotely execute code with elevated privileges. LG’s update also includes a ...
The GandCrab ransomware continues to virulently spread and adapt to shifting cyber-conditions, most recently crawling back into relevance on the back of several large-scale spam campaigns. What’s interesting is that GandCrab payload was found hiding on legitimate but compromised websites. ...
Intel announced today that upcoming CPU models would include brand new hardware-level protections to prevent any future Meltdown and Spectre-like vulnerabilities. Intel processors featuring these hardware-level protections will start shipping out in the second half of 2018. The company said ...
Polish law enforcement announced on Friday the arrest of Tomasz T., a well-known cyber-criminal believed to be the author of the Polski, Vortex, and Flotera ransomware strains. The arrest took place on Wednesday, March 14, in the Polish town of ...
A new ransomware was discovered this week by MalwareHunterTeam called Zenis Ransomware. While it is currently unknown how Zenis is being distributed, multiple victims have already become infected with this ransomware. What is most disturbing about Zenis is that it not encrypts your files, ...
A critical remote code execution vulnerability in PHPMailer has been discovered by Polish researcher Dawid Golunski. The vulnerability was announced on legalhackers.com yesterday but proof of concept exploit details were not included. Unfortunately someone posted a proof of concept to exploit-db ...
Owners of WordPress-based websites should update the Jetpack plug-in as soon as possible because of a serious flaw that could expose their users to attacks. Jetpack is a popular plug-in that offers free website optimization, management and security features. It ...