On Tuesday, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a security advisory cautioning federal agencies and the private sector about a significant rise in the use of LokiBot malware by wicked threat actors since July 2020. CISA said that its in-house security platform (the EINSTEIN Intrusion Detection System) Continue Reading
According to eSports site Dexerto, over 500,000 Activision accounts may have been impacted due to a data breach by the gaming firm on September 20. According to Dexerto, the login for Activision accounts been widely leaked and cybercriminals also changed accounts’ details to avert easy retrieval by the genuine owners. Most Continue Reading
Mozilla has patched a bug that can be exploited to capture all the Firefox for Android browsers on the same WiFi network, forcing users to access malicious websites. Chris Moberly, an Australian security researcher working for GitLab, discovered the bug. The actual flaw rests in the Firefox SSDP section. When Continue Reading
With the release of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 this week, technology giant Apple has fixed almost a dozen flaws and has come up with new privacy features. Each of the addressed security faults affects a different section of the operating system, viz. AppleAVD, Assets, Icons, IDE Device Support, IOSurfaceAccelerator, Continue Reading
On Wednesday, the United States government announced allegations against 5 alleged members of a Chinese state-supported hacking group and 2 Malaysian cybercriminals who are reported to have hacked more than 100 companies globally. Dubbed APT41 and also known as ‘Barium,’ ‘Winnti, ‘Wicked Panda,’ and ‘Wicked Spider,’ the cyber-intelligence group has Continue Reading
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