August 11, 2021 Microsoft released security updates for 44 vulnerabilities in the August issue of Microsoft Patch Tuesday, seven of which were classified as critical and 37 as important. 13 of the published patches target a vulnerability in more...
August 10, 2021 Apple has defended its new technology, which searches user's phones for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) after it was heavily criticized by customers and privacy campaigners because the technology could be a "backdoor" to spy more...
August 10, 2021 Microsoft reveals a ransomware detection system for its Azure customers which uses machine learning to find possible ransomware attacks and alert security teams. According to Microsoft's Sylvie Liu, Azure worked with the Microsoft Threat Intelligence more...
August 10, 2021 A new Android threat called FlyTrap by researchers has been victimizing Facebook accounts in more than 140 countries by stealing session cookies. FlyTrap activities rely on simple social engineering tactics to trick victims into using more...
August 10, 2021 Cybercriminals are fuelling a new criminal carding marketplace by posting one million credit cards stolen between 2018 and 2019 on hacking forums. Carding refers to the trade and use of stolen credit cards by point-of-sale more...
August 10, 2021 The average ransom payment in the first half of 2021 reached a record $570,000, an 82% increase from 2020, according to Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42. A report by the threat team of Palo Alto more...
August 9, 2021 Tenable discovered a vulnerability on April 26 that is actively exploited by threat actors and is tracked as CVE-2021-20090. The vulnerability affects home routers running Arcadyan firmware, which in turn paves the way for attackers more...
August 6, 2021 An angry Conti affiliate publicly leaked information about the ransomware gang on a popular Russian-speaking hacking forum. This affiliate accused the gang of paying him a paltry sum of $1,500, while the rest of the more...
August 6, 2021 The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security System announced the launch of the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC), a partnership between the agency and other private and public sector participants in an attempt to crack more...
August 6, 2021 A new class of DNS affecting important DNS-as-a-Service (DNSaaS) has been discovered that could allow an attacker to gain access to sensitive information from a corporate network. This is made possible by a simple domain more...
