Author: Avast Security News Team

Wearable fitness trackers have widened their scope of health readings and seem to be heading in a direction where they can offer more personalized, substantial health data to users. Along with measuring steps and heart rate, fitness trackers today can measure blood oxygen saturation, sleep patterns, and even mental wellness (one Fitbit product measures changes […]

Natalie Silvanovich of Google’s Project Zero bug-hunting team found and reported two zero-click vulnerabilities in video conferencing platform Zoom. Both flaws opened the door to attackers taking control of a victim’s devices and servers without the victim having to do anything. “Many people believe they are protected simply because they are cautious in the use […]

Uber has finally fixed a vulnerability that allowed bad actors to send emails from Uber’s official email account, but the fix comes seven years after the bug was first reported. Over the years, several researchers have reported the easy-to-exploit vulnerability to Uber – one as early as 2015 – but the rideshare company did not […]

“We informed a very small number of customers that the SIM card assigned to a mobile number on their account may have been illegally reassigned or limited account information was viewed,” a T-Mobile spokesperson told BleepingComputer last week in response to questions about a new T-Mobile data breach. “This issue was quickly corrected by our […]

Anonymity service Tor has been blocked by the Russian government and impersonated by an unknown bad actor. Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media, known as Roskomnadzor, blocked the main Tor site last week, cutting off the service from about 300,000 active Tor users in the country. Roskomnadzor claimed the […]

A crypto support bot scam discovered in May has now increased and widened its breadth of targeted cryptocurrency users. The way it works is that scammers monitor every tweet on Twitter for specific keywords, such as the crypto platform names “MetaMask,” “Phantom,” “Yoroi,” and “Trust Wallet,” as well as other words like “support,” “help,” and […]

A new poll commissioned by e-commerce search specialist Empathy.co revealed that most shoppers distrust online stores and choose not to share personal data with them. In the survey conducted by Censuswide, 4,000 British consumers were asked about their online shopping preferences. About 22% claimed to always use guest checkouts so they would not have to […]

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance released a series of advertisements that push for more regulation in the crypto world and the establishment of 10 fundamental rights for all crypto users. “Crypto belongs to all of us,” Binance posted. “But there’s still work to be done if we want this breakthrough innovation to become part of our daily […]

Commission-free stock trading company Robinhood published a blog post announcing it was the victim of a data security incident where hackers obtained 500 million email addresses, 200 million full names, and more specific personal information including names, birthdates, and zip codes of about 310 people. “Based on our investigation, the attack has been contained and […]

“In the coming weeks, Meta will shut down the Face Recognition system on Facebook as part of a company-wide move to limit the use of facial recognition in our products,” wrote Meta VP of Artificial Intelligence Jerome Pesenti in a blog post this week. Meta, the new name for Mark Zuckerberg’s company as of late […]