23 Mar

Bogus ChatGPT extension steals Facebook cookies

Google has removed a ChatGPT extension from the Chrome store that steals Facebook session cookies – but not before more than 9,000 users installed the account-compromising

Author rabih
23 Mar

B-List celebs including Lindsay Lohan fined after crypto shill probe

Eight very B-list celebrities have agreed to cough up fines after being accused of shilling a cryptocurrency without disclosing they were paid to do so,

Author rabih
23 Mar

South Korea fines McDonald’s for data leak from raw SMB share

South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission has fined McDonald’s, British American Tobacco, and Samsung for privacy breaches. McDonald’s was slapped with a ₩696 million ($530,000)

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22 Mar

Cisco kindly reveals proof of concept attacks for flaws in rival Netgear’s kit

Public proof-of-concept exploits have landed for bugs in Netgear Orbi routers – including one critical command execution vulnerability.  The four vulnerabilities are found in Netgear’s

Author rabih
22 Mar

Journalist hurt by exploding USB bomb drive

Police in Ecuador are investigating attacks on media organizations across the country after a journalist was injured by an exploding USB flash drive. In a

Author rabih
22 Mar

German political parties accused of microtargeting voters on Facebook

Remember the Who Targets Me browser extension from privacy activists at Noyb? The group yesterday filed explosive complaints based on log records from the extension

Author rabih
22 Mar

4 Mobile Malware Threats You Can’t Even See

By 2030, experts predict that there will be 5 billion devices connected to 5G.1 For the general population, this connectedness means better access to information,

Author rabih
22 Mar

Unknown actors deploy malware to steal data in occupied regions of Ukraine

A cyber espionage campaign targeting organizations in Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine is using novel malware to steal data, according to Russia-based infosec software vendor Kaspersky.

Author rabih
22 Mar

India’s absurd infosec reporting rules get just 15 followers

India’s rules requiring local organizations to report infosec incidents within six hours of detection have been observed by a mere 15 entities/ India’s Computer Emergency

Author rabih
22 Mar

BreachForums shuts down … but the RaidForums cybercrime universe will likely spawn a trilogy

BreachForums has reportedly shut down for good, just days after US authorities arrested the online criminal marketplace’s alleged chief administrator. A second admin declared the

Author rabih
22 Mar

Xi, Putin, declare intent to rule the world of AI, infosec

Russian president Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have set themselves the goal of dominating the world of information technology. The two despots

Author rabih
22 Mar

BreachForums shuts down … but the RaidForums cybercrime universe will likely become a trilogy

BreachForums has reportedly shut down for good, just days after US authorities arrested the online criminal marketplace’s alleged chief administrator. A second admin declared the

Author rabih
21 Mar

You just gonna take that AWS? Let Microsoft school your users on cloud security?

Microsoft has torn the wraps off its multi-cloud security benchmark (MCSB), which replaces the four-year-old Azure Security Benchmark. Crucially, as the name suggests, it now

Author rabih
21 Mar

Ex-Meta security staffer accuses Greece of spying on her phone

Meta’s former security policy manager, who split her time between the US and Greece, is reportedly suing the Hellenic national intelligence service for hacking her

Author rabih
21 Mar

Putin to staffers: Throw out your iPhones, or ‘give it to the kids’

Advisors and staff to Russia’s maximum leader have been told to ditch their iPhones by the end of the month. Or, for those who don’t

Author rabih
21 Mar

Google suspends top Chinese shopping app Pinduoduo

Google has suspended Chinese shopping app Pinduoduo from its Play store because versions of the software found elsewhere have included malware. Pinduoduo rose to prominence

Author rabih
21 Mar

Australian FinTech takes itself offline to deal with cyber incident that caused data leak

Latitude Financial has blamed a supplier for leaking creds that caused vast PII leak Australian outfit Latitude Financial has taken itself offline, and even stopped

Author rabih
21 Mar

Ferrari in a spin as crims steal a car-load of customer data

Italian automaker Ferrari has warned its well-heeled customers that their personal data may be at risk. “We regret to inform you of a cyber incident

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