WhatsApp now lets you lock chats with a password or fingerprint
Meta is now rolling out ‘Chat Lock,’ a new WhatsApp privacy feature allowing users to block others from accessing their most personal conversations. Chat Lock…
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Stealthy MerDoor malware uncovered after five years of attacks
A new APT hacking group dubbed Lancefly uses a custom ‘Merdoor’ backdoor malware to target government, aviation, and telecommunication organizations in South and Southeast Asia.…
Airline exposes passenger info to others due to a ‘technical error’
airBaltic, Latvia’s flag carrier has acknowledged that a ‘technical error’ exposed reservation details of some of its passengers to other airBaltic passengers. Passengers also reported receiving…
New RA Group ransomware targets U.S. orgs in double-extortion attacks
A new ransomware group named ‘RA Group’ is targeting pharmaceutical, insurance, wealth management, and manufacturing firms in the United States and South Korea. The new…
Capita warns customers they should assume data was stolen
Business process outsourcing firm Capita is warning customers to assume that their data was stolen in a cyberattack that affected its systems in early April.…
Brave unveils new “Forgetful Browsing” anti-tracking feature
The privacy-focused Brave Browser is introducing a new “Forgetful Browsing” feature that prevents sites from re-identifying you on subsequent visits. This new feature will clear…
Hackers target WordPress plugin flaw after PoC exploit released
Hackers are actively exploiting a recently fixed vulnerability in the WordPress Advanced Custom Fields plugin roughly 24 hours after a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit was made…
The Week in Ransomware – May 12th 2023
This week we have multiple reports of new ransomware families targeting the enterprise, named Cactus and Akira, both increasingly active as they target the enterprise.…
Discord discloses data breach after support agent got hacked
Discord is notifying users of a data breach that occurred after the account of a third-party support agent was compromised. The security breach exposed the…
CISA warns of critical Ruckus bug used to infect Wi-Fi access points
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned today of a critical remote code execution (RCE) flaw in the Ruckus Wireless Admin panel actively…
Bl00dy Ransomware targets education orgs in PaperCut attacks
The FBI and CISA issued a joint advisory to warn that the Bl00dy Ransomware gang is now also actively exploiting a PaperCut remote-code execution vulnerability…
Car location data of 2 million customers exposed for ten years
Toyota Motor Corporation disclosed a data breach on its cloud environment that exposed the car-location information of 2,150,000 customers for ten years, between November 6,…