All posts tagged "malware"
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4.5KFutureSorry, But Your Smart Toothbrush Is Too Stupid to Be Hacked for Malware Attacks
This week, one of the biggest stories in cybersecurity was the existence of a huge botnet built out of toothbrushes, one that...
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5.0KSecurityLG Washing Machine Caught Sending Gigabytes of Data Per Day
s your smart home appliance phoning home too much? One owner of a smart LG machine analyzed his Internet traffic and was...
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3.7KSecurityPopular Android App Found To Start Audio Recording and Send Data to Hackers Every 15 Minutes
Security researchers are warning that a popular Android app has turned malicious and started sending audio recordings to the attackers every 15...
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3.4KSecurityWorse Than Malware: 5 Ecuadorian Journalists Were Attacked with Exploding USB Sticks
Security experts have warned time and time again never to connect USB sticks from sources you don’t know but what they were...
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1.3KSocialRussian Hackers Targeted Ukraine’s Energy Provider
Russia’s ground attacks were just joined by cyberattacks, as Russian hackers targeted one of Ukraine’s energy providers. The Computer Emergency Response Team...
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3.2KSecurityPSA: Update Your Apple Devices Now to Avoid the Pegasus Spyware
If you didn’t check your mail today you might have missed the latest PSA from apple: update your Apple devices now! Apple...
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2.1KSmart LifeStrange macOS Malware Targets Only Apple Silicon M1 Chips But Has No Payload
Earlier in February, researchers from the security firm Red Canary have published information about a new strain of macOS malware. The malware,...
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1.6KPhonesPopular Barcode Scanner On Google Play Infects Over 10 Million Users
A Google Play barcode scanner app with more than 10 million downloads has turned out to be adware. Barcode Scanner, a popular third-party...
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3.8KFutureA German University Rolls out Credential Refresh With Printed ID Requirement
Recently, Justus Liebig University in Giessen, near Frankfurt, was hit by a malware attack and 38,000 students were required to physically stand...
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12.7KSecurityGoogle Play App Delivers Malware To Android Users
The CamScanner app was published by CC Intelligence, a company based in Shanghai which specializes in optical character recognition – aside from...
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6.5KSecurityChina Is Allegedly Installing Malware On Tourist’s Phones
China is well-known for not putting much trust in either its residents or the tourists who come to visit – the country’s...
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2.6KSecurityRansomware Strikes Again: Georgia Courts Get Hit With Ryuk Malware
Ransomware attacks have been spreading across the United States in the past few weeks at a pretty steady rate: back in June,...
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2.6KSecurityAnother Florida City Pays Ransomware Attack
On Monday, June 10th, Florida’s Lake City was hit with a malware attack known as a ‘Triple Threat’. This type of ransomware...
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5.4KSecurityThe Persistence Of Chaos: The World’s Most Dangerous Laptop
As a collector, unless you own a piece of allegedly haunted memorabilia or artwork of some kind, you are not generally...
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2.5KSecurityMajor WhatsApp Security Flaw Lets Hackers Install Spyware, Update Your App Now!
Security engineers from Facebook discovered a major security flaw in WhatsApp and are now recommending that everyone updates their app to get...
