It’s always satisfying to see scammers failing dozens of times, trying to reach you but constantly getting their calls blocked. However, many people still haven’t enabled the filtering feature on their phones. Voice scammers are getting smarter: how to set up your phone’s defenses Social engineering is a numbers game, […]
A US-led alliance of forty countries has committed to signing a pledge to never pay ransoms, leaving cybercriminals without one of their main funding mechanisms, according to a senior White House official. The International Counter Ransomware Initiative comes as the number of ransomware attacks grows worldwide, vowing to work toward […]
The Enter the Puma phishing link shortening gang caught threat group believed to be from Ukraine went undetected for years, selling URL link-shortening services to other cybercriminals to help facilitate their malicious activities. Prolific Enter the Puma phishing link-shortening gang caught-Puma is believed to have registered 35,000-75,000 fake domain names […]
Google Play Store Introduces Independent Security Review badge in the Play Store’s Data safety section for Android apps that have undergone a Mobile Application Security Assessment (MASA) audit. “We’ve launched this banner beginning with VPN apps due to the sensitive and significant amount of user data these apps handle,” Nataliya Stanetsky […]
New findings have shed light on what’s said to be a lawful attempt to covertly intercept traffic originating from jabber[.]ru (aka xmpp[.]ru), an XMPP-based instant messaging service, via servers hosted on Hetzner and Linode (a subsidiary of Akamai) in Germany. “The attacker has issued several new TLS certificates using Let’s Encrypt […]
An alarming surge in fraudulent Chrome update websites has raised concerns as they could grant unauthorized access to users’ devices through remote access trojans. Researchers at the cybersecurity company Sucuri noticed an influx in websites infected with fake Google Chrome update malware, nicknamed “FakeUpdateRU.” The bogus websites trick users into […]
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