Security News
Geek Squad Vishing Attack Bypasses Email Security to Hit 25K Mailboxes
An email campaign asking victims to call a bogus number to suspend supposedly fraudulent subscriptions got right past Microsoft's native email controls.
Threatpost
18 Jun 2021 774 Views
Macquarie Uni researchers find an oversharing of personal data in health apps
88% of the free health-related apps on Google Play probed by researchers could access and potentially share personal data.
ZDnet
17 Jun 2021 551 Views
Ransomware Poll: 80% of Victims Don’t Pay Up
Meanwhile, in a separate survey, 80 percent of organizations that paid the ransom said they were hit by a second attack.
Threatpost
17 Jun 2021 559 Views
Millions of Connected Cameras Open to Eavesdropping
A supply-chain component lays open camera feeds to remote attackers thanks to a critical security vulnerability.
Threatpost
16 Jun 2021 590 Views
G7 nations call out Russia for harbouring ransomware crims ahead of Biden-Putin powwow
Hopes raised in West of an extradition or law enforcement agreement to stem the tide The G7 summit of western countries has called upon Russia to "identify, disrupt, and hold to account those within its borders who conduct ransomware attacks, abuse virtual currency to launder ransoms...
The Register
15 Jun 2021 11868 Views
Microsoft Teams: Very Bad Tabs Could Have Led to BEC
Attackers could have used the bug to get read/write privileges for a victim user’s email, Teams chats, OneDrive, Sharepoint and loads of other services.
Threatpost
15 Jun 2021 626 Views
Volkswagen, Audi Disclose Data Breach Impacting Over 3.3 Million Customers, Interested Buyers
Packet Storm
14 Jun 2021 17516 Views
Update Your Windows Computers to Patch 6 New In-the-Wild Zero-Day Bugs
Microsoft on Tuesday released another round of security updates for Windows operating system and other supported software, squashing 50 vulnerabilities, including six zero-days that are said to be under active attack.
The flaws were identified and resolved in Microsoft Windows, .NET Core...
The Hacker News
10 Jun 2021 12927 Views
FBI paid renegade developer $180k for backdoored AN0M chat app that brought down drug underworld
From hidden master keys to pineapples stuffed with Bolivian marching powder — this story has it all The FBI has revealed how it managed to hoodwink the criminal underworld with its secretly backdoored AN0M encrypted chat app, leading to hundreds of arrests, the seizure of 32 tons of...
The Register
9 Jun 2021 13566 Views
Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fixes 6 In-The-Wild Exploits, 50 Flaws
Researchers discovered a highly targeted malware campaign launched in April, in which a new, unknown threat actor used two of the vulnerabilities that Microsoft said are under active attack.
Threatpost
9 Jun 2021 487 Views
