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South Korea Fines Meta
06
Nov
2024

South Korea Fines Meta $15.67M for Illegally Sharing Sensitive User Data with Advertisers

Nov 06, 2024Ravie LakshmananData Privacy / Tech Regulation Meta has been fined 21.62 billion won ($15.67 million) by South Korea’s…

Multi-Factor Authentication
06
Nov
2024

Google Cloud to Enforce Multi-Factor Authentication by 2025 for All Users

Nov 06, 2024Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Phishing Protection Google’s cloud division has announced that it will enforce mandatory multi-factor authentication…

Chinese Hackers
05
Nov
2024

FBI Seeks Public Help to Identify Chinese Hackers Behind Global Cyber Intrusions

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has sought assistance from the public in connection with an investigation involving the…

Android Banking Malware
05
Nov
2024

New Android Banking Malware ‘ToxicPanda’ Targets Users with Fraudulent Money Transfers

Nov 05, 2024Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Cyber Attack Over 1,500 Android devices have been infected by a new strain of…

Zero Trust security
05
Nov
2024

Leveraging Wazuh for Zero Trust security

Zero Trust security changes how organizations handle security by doing away with implicit trust while continuously analyzing and validating access…

NAS Devices
05
Nov
2024

Synology Urges Patch for Critical Zero-Click RCE Flaw Affecting Millions of NAS Devices

Nov 05, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Data Security Taiwanese network-attached storage (NAS) appliance maker Synology has addressed a critical security flaw…

Snowflake
05
Nov
2024

Canadian Suspect Arrested Over Snowflake Data Breach and Extortion Attacks

Nov 05, 2024Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Cybercrime Canadian law enforcement authorities have arrested an individual who is suspected to have…

Ethereum Smart Contracts
05
Nov
2024

Malware Campaign Uses Ethereum Smart Contracts to Control npm Typosquat Packages

Nov 05, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Blockchain An ongoing campaign is targeting npm developers with hundreds of typosquat versions of their…

Vulnerability in Android System
05
Nov
2024

Google Warns of Actively Exploited CVE-2024-43093 Vulnerability in Android System

Nov 05, 2024Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Vulnerability Google has warned that a security flaw impacting its Android operating system has…

Ollama AI Framework
04
Nov
2024

Critical Flaws in Ollama AI Framework Could Enable DoS, Model Theft, and Poisoning

Nov 04, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Cyber Threat Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed six security flaws in the Ollama artificial intelligence (AI)…

DDoS-for-Hire Platform
04
Nov
2024

German Police Disrupt DDoS-for-Hire Platform dstat[.]cc; Suspects Arrested

Nov 04, 2024Mohit KumarDDoS Attack / Cybercrime German law enforcement authorities have announced the disruption of a criminal service called…

Cyber Threats
04
Nov
2024

Cyber Threats That Could Impact the Retail Industry This Holiday Season (and What to Do About It)

As the holiday season approaches, retail businesses are gearing up for their annual surge in online (and in-store) traffic. Unfortunately,…