Amazon says 175 million customer now use passkeys to log in
Amazon has seen massive adoption of passkeys since the company quietly rolled them out a year ago, announcing today that over 175 million customers use…
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Finland seizes servers of ‘Sipultie’ dark web drugs market
The Finnish Customs office took down the website and seized the servers for the darknet marketplace ‘Sipulitie’ where criminals sold illegal narcotics anonymously. The agency’s…
EDRSilencer red team tool used in attacks to bypass security
A tool for red-team operations called EDRSilencer has been observed in malicious incidents attempting to identify security tools and mute their alerts to management consoles.…
New FIDO proposal lets you securely move passkeys across platforms
The Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance has published a working draft of a new specification that aims to enable the secure transfer of passkeys between…
Over 200 malicious apps on Google Play downloaded millions of times
Google Play, the official store for Android, distributed over a period of one year more than 200 malicious applications, which cumulatively counted nearly eight million…
Cisco investigates breach after stolen data for sale on hacking forum
Cisco has confirmed to BleepingComputer that it is investigating recent claims that it suffered a breach after a threat actor began selling allegedly stolen data on…
New FASTCash malware Linux variant helps steal money from ATMs
North Korean hackers are using a new Linux variant of the FASTCash malware to infect the payment switch systems of financial institutions and perform unauthorized…
Jetpack fixes critical information disclosure flaw existing since 2016
WordPress plugin Jetpack released a critical security update earlier today, addressing a vulnerability that allowed a logged-in user to access forms submitted by other visitors…
TrickMo malware steals Android PINs using fake lock screen
Forty new variants of the TrickMo Android banking trojan have been identified in the wild, linked to 16 droppers and 22 distinct command and control…
Pokemon dev Game Freak confirms breach after stolen data leaks online
Japanese video game developer Game Freak has confirmed it suffered a cyberattack in August after source code and game designs for unpublished games were leaked…
Google warns uBlock Origin and other extensions may be disabled soon
Google’s Chrome Web Store is now warning that the uBlock Origin ad blocker and other extensions may soon be blocked as part of the company’s deprecation…
Iranian hackers now exploit Windows flaw to elevate privileges
The Iranian state-sponsored hacking group APT34, aka OilRig, has recently escalated its activities with new campaigns targeting government and critical infrastructure entities in the United Arab…