Facebook Ads Push Android Adware with 7 million Installs on Google Play Several adware apps promoted aggressively on Facebook as system cleaners and optimizers for Android devices are counting millions of installations on Google Play store. The apps lack all of the promised functionality and push advertisements while trying to last as Read more…
Meta, US Hospitals Sued for Using Healthcare Data to Target Ads A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Northern District of California against Meta (Facebook), the UCSF Medical Center, and the Dignity Health Medical Foundation, alleging that the organizations are unlawfully collecting sensitive healthcare data about patients for targeted Read more…
CISA Warns of Critical Confluence Bug Exploited in Attacks CISA has added a critical Confluence vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-26138 to its list of bugs abused in the wild, a flaw that can provide remote attackers with hardcoded credentials following successful exploitation. As Australian software firm Atlassian revealed last week, unpatched versions of the Questions Read more…
US Govt Warns Americans of Escalating SMS Phishing Attacks The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) warned Americans of an increasing wave of SMS (Short Message Service) phishing attacks attempting to steal their personal information and money. Such attacks are also known as smishing or robotexts (as the FCC calls them), and Read more…
LockBit Operator Abuses Windows Defender to Load Cobalt Strike A threat actor associated with the LockBit 3.0 ransomware operation is abusing the Windows Defender command line tool to load Cobalt Strike beacons on compromised systems and evade detection by security software. Cobalt Strike is a legitimate penetration testing suite with Read more…
Windows 11’s New Kiosk Mode Lets Admins Limit Available Apps Microsoft is testing a new multi-app kiosk mode lockdown feature for IT admins in the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview build released to the Dev Channel. When toggled on, the new feature will enable IT administrators to limit the applications Read more…
Microsoft Links Raspberry Robin Malware to Evil Corp Attacks Microsoft has discovered that an access broker it tracks as DEV-0206 uses the Raspberry Robin Windows worm to deploy a malware downloader on networks where it also found evidence of malicious activity matching Evil Corp tactics. “On July 26, 2022, Microsoft researchers Read more…
Blockchain and Personal Data Protection: The PDPC Guide Businesses and organisations throughout the globe are beginning to implement Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs), such as blockchains, for a variety of finance and supply chain management applications. Some of these applications may begin to store personal information in blockchain networks. Due to Read more…
Ransom Payments Fall as Fewer Victims Choose to Pay Hackers Ransomware statistics from the second quarter of the year show that the ransoms paid to extortionists have dropped in value, a trend that continues since the last quarter of 2021. Ransomware remediation firm Coveware has published a report today with Read more…
Microsoft Releases Windows 10 22H2 Preview for Enterprise Testing Microsoft has released the first preview build of Windows 10, version 22H2, to Windows Insiders for enterprise testing before the general release later this year. “Windows 10 Build 19045.1865 (KB5015878) is now available in the Release Preview Channel for Windows Insider Program Read more…
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