Americans lost $8.8 billion to fraud in 2022 after 30% surge
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) revealed today that Americans lost almost $8.8 billion to various types of scams in...
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New S1deload Malware Hijacking Users’ Social Media Accounts and Mining Cryptocurrency
Feb 23, 2023Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Malware An active malware campaign has set its sights on Facebook and YouTube users by...
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Australia’s top content moderator has given Twitter, Google, TikTok, Twitch and Discord 35 days to outline how they’re detecting child...
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Valve “honeypot” used to ban 40,000 Dota 2 players using cheat
Game developer Valve has announced that it permanently banned more than 40,000 accounts for using cheating software to gain an unfair...
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Malwarebytes Application Block restricts access to outdated and unsafe apps
Malwarebytes has added Malwarebytes Application Block to its Nebula and OneView endpoint protection platforms. The new threat prevention module helps...
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Hackers Using Trojanized macOS Apps to Deploy Evasive Cryptocurrency Mining Malware
Feb 23, 2023Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Cryptocurrency Trojanized versions of legitimate applications are being used to deploy evasive cryptocurrency mining...
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Russian malware dev behind NLBrute hacking tool extradited to US
A Russian malware developer accused of creating and selling the NLBrute password-cracking tool was extradited to the United States after...
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Google Paid Over $12 Million As Bug Bounty Rewards In 2022
In 2022, Google distributed $12 million as a reward through its bug bounty program. This includes a payout of $605,000,...
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You Can’t Trust App Developers’ Privacy Claims on Google Play
It’s basically impossible to keep track of what all your mobile apps are doing and what data they share with...
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Russian Radio Stations Hacked with Fake Missile Alerts
According to local media, a female voice rendered the fake alerts from several radio stations, including Yumor FM, Relax FM,...
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Stories from the SOC – The case for human response actions
[ This article was originally published here ] Stories from the SOC is a blog series that describes recent real-world...
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Users looking for ChatGPT apps get malware instead
The massive popularity of OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT has not gone unnoticed by cyber criminals: they are exploiting the public’s eagerness...
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