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533 Million Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers and Personal Data Leaked Online
In what’s likely to be a goldmine for bad actors, personal information associated with approximately 533 million Facebook users worldwide…
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Hackers Using a Windows OS Feature to Evade Firewall and Gain Persistence
A novel technique adopted by attackers finds ways to use Microsoft’s Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) so as to deploy…
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Another Critical RCE Flaw Discovered in SolarWinds Orion Platform
IT infrastructure management provider SolarWinds on Thursday released a new update to its Orion networking monitoring tool with fixes for…
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Tesla Ransomware Hacker Pleads Guilty; Swiss Hacktivist Charged for Fraud
The U.S. Department of Justice yesterday announced updates on two separate cases involving cyberattacks—a Swiss hacktivist and a Russian hacker…
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Another Google Chrome 0-Day Bug Found Actively Exploited In-the-Wild
Google has addressed yet another actively exploited zero-day in Chrome browser, marking the second such fix released by the company…
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Bug in Apple’s Find My Feature Could’ve Exposed Users’ Location Histories
Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday disclosed two distinct design and implementation flaws in Apple’s crowdsourced Bluetooth location tracking system that can…
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North Korean Hackers Targeting Defense Firms with ThreatNeedle Malware
A prolific North Korean state-sponsored hacking group has been tied to a new ongoing espionage campaign aimed at exfiltrating sensitive…
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New Hack Lets Attackers Bypass MasterCard PIN by Using Them As Visa Card
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a novel attack that could allow criminals to trick a point of sale terminal into transacting…
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Yandex Employee Caught Selling Access to Users’ Email Inboxes
Russian Dutch-domiciled search engine, ride-hailing and email service provider Yandex on Friday disclosed a data breach that compromised 4,887 email…
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Critical Flaws Reported in Cisco VPN Routers for Businesses—Patch ASAP
Cisco has rolled out fixes for multiple critical vulnerabilities in the web-based management interface of Small Business routers that could…
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