Hacker Ordered to Pay Back Nearly £1 Million to Phishing Victims
A prolific hacker who carried out phishing scams against hundreds of companies worldwide has been ordered to pay back more than $1.1 million (over £922,000)...
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iOS 12.4 jailbreak released after Apple ‘accidentally un-patches’ an old flaw
A fully functional jailbreak has been released for the latest iOS 12.4 on the Internet, making it the first public jailbreak in a long time—thanks...
A New Android ‘Banking Malware For Rent’ Emerges
After a few popular Android Trojans like Anubis, Red Alert 2.0, GM bot, and Exobot, quit their malware-as-a-service businesses, a new player has emerged on the Internet with similar...
Google Discloses 20-Year-Old Unpatched Flaw Affecting All Versions of Windows
Update — With this month’s patch Tuesday updates, Microsoft has finally addressed this vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1162, by correcting how the Windows operating system handles...
New Bluetooth Vulnerability Lets Attackers Spy On Encrypted Connections
Over a billion Bluetooth-enabled devices, including smartphones, laptops, smart IoT devices, and industrial devices, have been found vulnerable to a high severity vulnerability that could...
Bluetana App Quickly Detects Hidden Bluetooth Card Skimmers at Gas Pumps
In recent years, gas stations have become one of the favorite targets for thieves who are stealing customers’ credit and debit card information by installing...
Patches for 2 Severe LibreOffice Flaws Bypassed — Update to Patch Again
If you are using LibreOffice, you need to update it once again. LibreOffice has released the latest version 6.2.6/6.3.0 of its open-source office software to...
KDE Linux Desktops Could Get Hacked Without Even Opening Malicious Files
If you are running a KDE desktop environment on your Linux operating system, you need to be extra careful and avoid downloading any “.desktop” or...
Binance KYC Data Leak — Crypto Exchange Sets $290,000 Bounty On Blackmailer
Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange Binance has become a victim of a ransom demand from a scammer who claimed to have hacked the KYC (Know Your Customer)...
Pakistani Man Bribed AT&T Insiders to Plant Malware and Unlock 2 Million Phones
United States federal government has charged a Pakistani national for bribing employees at AT&T telecommunication company over a period of five years to help unlock...
New Flaws in Qualcomm Chips Expose Millions of Android Devices to Hacking
A series of critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in Qualcomm chipsets that could allow hackers to compromise Android devices remotely just by sending malicious packets...
Researchers Discover New Ways to Hack WPA3 Protected WiFi Passwords
The same team of cybersecurity researchers who discovered several severe vulnerabilities, collectively dubbed as Dragonblood, in the newly launched WPA3 WiFi security standard few months...
Cisco ‘Knowingly’ Sold Hackable Video Surveillance System to U.S. Government
Cisco Systems has agreed to pay $8.6 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of knowingly selling video surveillance system containing severe security...
Critical Flaws in ‘OXID eShop’ Software Expose eCommerce Sites to Hacking
If your e-commerce website runs on the OXID eShop platform, you need to update it immediately to prevent your site from becoming compromised. Cybersecurity researchers...
Capital One Data Breach Affects 106 Million Customers; Hacker Arrested
Another week, another massive data breach. Capital One, the fifth-largest U.S. credit-card issuer and banking institution, has recently suffered a data breach exposing the personal...