During the tax filing season, scammers become particularly active, and with the deadline coming closer and closer, you need to be careful. Crooks come up with all kinds of methods to lure out money out of taxpayers, but awareness for these scams is also rising. The IRS (Internal Revenue Service) even has an annual ‘Dirty Dozen’ list with the worst…
A well-known software download website for Mac devices, MacUpdate, was revealed to have been a victim of a cyber attack that resulted in them distributing cryptocurrency miners to their users. “The malware was spread via hack of the MacUpdate site, which was distributing maliciously-modified copies of the Firefox, OnyX, and Deeper applications. According to a statement posted in the comments…
There are many things to consider when labeling a browser as secure, such as whether it prevents you from entering a malicious site, blocks automatic malware downloads, is easily exploitable, etc. But how much it respects users’ privacy should also be high on the list. If you are using a browser with top features for protecting you from malicious threats…
In case you did not keep up with the world of cybersecurity in the past few weeks, we have compiled the biggest news headlines between January 20th and February 5th. There were multiple thefts carried out, we saw the biggest cryptocurrency hack in history and a fitness app revealed the locations of military bases all over the world. Without further…
In case you did not keep up with the world of cybersecurity in the past few weeks, we have compiled the biggest news headlines between January 5th and 20th. You’ll find a couple of major headlines, such as the US Senate voting in favor of a bill that could allow NSA to spy on citizens without needing a warrant, and…
An Austrian cyber security auditor, Florian Bogner, recently discovered a flaw that allows a local attacker to abuse the ‘restore from quarantine’ feature in antivirus software. The flaw, named AVGater, allows to move malware from an AV’s quarantine folder to a sensitive locations on the victim’s system, allowing the malware to run with full privileges.…
The past couple of weeks have been pretty mundane when it comes to cybersecurity (not counting the news about ‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre’), we have seen worse times, but there have been better weeks. Between December 15 2017 and January 5 2018, arrest in connection to spreading ransomware were made, US officially blamed North Korea for WannaCry, Forever 21’s customer card…
It has been an eventful two weeks, and while there were no worldwide ransomware attacks, we did see one major data breach, one huge data leak, more than a billion of credentials exposed, hackers stealing money from banks and $80 million worth of Bitcoin stolen. These are only the few incidents that took place over the last 14 days. Below…
Seven vulnerabilities have been discovered in the LibXL C library by a security researcher. An attacker could exploit the flaws and perform remote code execution attack via specially crafted XLS files, Cisco’s Talos researcher, Marcin Noga, reports. Libxls is a C library which is used to read Microsoft Excel File Formats, raging from current versions XLS files to Excel 97…
November 1-8 has been a pretty slow week. We did not witness major breaches involving millions of people, and no worldwide ransomware attack took place. However, some more notable incidents did occur, from popular anime site being hacked to a fake app being downloaded a million times from Google Chrome.…