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Android is vulnerable anew owing it to a new vulnerability which goes by the name of “StrandHogg 2.0” That is right. StrandHogg is back and now has affected numerous Android devices putting over a Billion Android devices in jeopardy. The vulnerability is a pretty typical way aids hackers disguise illegitimate applications as legitimate ones with […]
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Another notorious crypto-currency mining malware has surfaced which allegedly has been infecting the systems of countless organizations. The group with the control of operations goes by the code name of “Blue Mockingbird”. The researchers who discovered it have reasons to believe that the Blue Mockingbird has been active since 2019’s last month. Per them, it […]
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As per several reports, Facebook was imitated by an Israeli security company that is known as the “NSO Group” to get the targets to install their “phone-hacking software”. Per sources, a Facebook-like doppelganger domain was engineered to distribute the NSO’s “Pegasus” hacking contrivance. Allegedly, serves within the boundaries of the USA were employed for the […]
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Of late a phishing attack was found to be stealing confidential user data that was stored on the cloud. As per sources, this is the work of a new phishing campaign that dodges the Office 365 Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to acquire the target’s cloud-stored data and uses it as bait to extract a ransom in […]
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With there being no apparent end in view of the pandemic, everyone has been forced to live within a confined space and spend their days not doing anything that needs going out. Especially students all over the world are having a hard time managing things without the actual physical classes to dote on. Not that […]
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Per reports, Microsoft has hinted that the next main version of Windows 10 will come stacked with a fresh security feature that would allow the users to facilitate the Windows Defender’s secret feature that helps hunt and bar the installation of known PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications). PUA’s are also widely known as PUPs that stands […]
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Ever since this year began, the Maze ransomware has been hitting headlines. Recently researchers discovered more samples of Maze in numerous industries making it one of the major threats for the cyber-world. Another form of the “ChaCha” ransomware, Maze surfaced in mid-2019 and has been wreaking havoc ever since, across continents and any organization it […]
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Reportedly, Google was in the news about having removed 49 Chrome extensions from its browser’s store for robbing crypto-wallet credentials. What’s more, after that, there surfaced an additional set of password-swiping “extensions” aka “add-ons”, which are up for download even now. Per sources, the allegedly corrupt add-ons exist on the browser store disguised as authentic […]
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It has been crystal clear over these years with the increase in a number of cyber-attacks of an equally unique kind making it almost impossible for the out-dated or conventional security mechanisms to intercept and fight. As if a single one-of-a-kind cyber-attack tool wasn’t enough, the threat actors now are laden with polymorphic tactics up […]
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Sharing has become a thing with cyber-criminals and their malware mechanisms. Reportedly, LeetHozer botnet was found to have similar attack tactics as that of the Mootbot malware family. Researchers have reasons to think that the party that created the Moobot also could be the ones who created the LeetHozer. Per researchers, the LeetHozer botnet has […]
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