Cybersecurity experts have revealed that a new spyware operation aiming users in Pakistan that influences trojanized versions of authentic Android apps to conduct clandestine surveillance and spying. Designed to subterfuge apps such as the Pakistan Citizen Portal, a Muslim prayer-clock app called Pakistan Salat Time, Mobile Packages Pakistan, Registered SIMs Continue Reading
On Thursday, Microsoft recognized that hackers who organized a huge hack of government and private computer networks gained access to its internal “source code,” a vital element for its software. But the technology behemoth said the attack, which top US officials suggested have been committed by Russian-led hackers, were unable Continue Reading
An academic research group said today that at least 36 Al Jazeera journalists, producers, anchors, and executives, along with a journalist at London-based Al Araby TV, had their iPhones hacked using a zero-day no-user contact vulnerability in the iOS iMessage app. Citizen Lab, a research group on cybersecurity and human Continue Reading
K-12 education institutions in the U.S. are being exploited for extortion, data theft, and general disruption of routine operation by malicious actors. The phenomenon will continue through the academic year 2020/2021. The warning is issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Continue Reading
A major shift in the malware landscape was noticed towards the end of 2017. Due to the growing popularity of cloud-based technologies, gangs of threat actors and cybercriminals began targeting Docker and Kubernetes systems. A majority of these attacks followed a very simple pattern where cybercriminals skimmed for misconfigured systems Continue Reading
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