Zeljka Zorz
Data of 800,000 Swisscom customers compromised in breach
Swisscom, the biggest telecom company in Switzerland, has suffered a data breach that resulted in the compromise of personal data of some 800,000 customers, i.e., nearly ten …
How to track smartphone users when they’ve turned off GPS
As it turns out, turning off location services (e.g., GPS) on your smartphone doesn’t mean an attacker can’t use the device to pinpoint your location. A group of …
Hotspot Shield VPN flaw can betray users’ location
A flaw in the widely used Hotspot Shield VPN utility can be exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive information that could be used to discover users’ location and, …
Android devices roped into new Monero-mining botnet
A new Monero-mining bot sprang up several days ago and, in just a few days, has created a botnet consisting of over 7,000 Android devices, most of which are located in China …
Realistic, well-positioned Reddit clone is out to grab users’ login credentials
A convincing clone of the popular social news aggregation and discussion site Reddit has been spotted on the reddit.co domain. The author is obviously counting on users not to …
Flaw in Grammarly’s extensions opened user accounts to compromise
A vulnerability in the Grammarly Chrome and Firefox extensions allowed websites to read users’ authentication tokes and use to them to log in to the users’ …
Cisco issues new, complete fixes for critical flaw in enterprise security appliances
Cisco researchers have identified additional attack vectors and features that are affected by the “perfect 10” remote code execution and denial of service …
Mac crypto miner distributed via MacUpdate, other software download sites
Software download site/aggregator MacUpdate has been spotted delivering a new Mac crypto miner to users. A new Mac cryptominer was being distributed from hacked MacUpdate …
About the Flash zero-day currently exploited in the wild
The zero-day Flash Player vulnerability (CVE-2018-4878) that Adobe warned about on Thursday was leveraged by North Korean hackers. FireEye calls the group TEMP.Reaper and …
Scammers steal nearly $1 million from Bee Token ICO would-be investors
Another day, another ICO-related scam. In an attack similar to that which fooled investors into the Enigma cryptocurrency investment platform, users who were aiming to buy Bee …
Researchers showcase automated cyber threat anticipation system
A group of researchers is trying to develop an automatic early warning system that should help defenders take preventative action before specific cyber attacks start …
Google booted 100,000 malicious developers from Google Play
New malware and unwanted apps are discovered on Google Play nearly every day – or so it seems. According to Google’s statistics, in 2017 the company has taken down …
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