Politicians need to come together to prevent further violence in Northern Ireland, the former British chief negotiator for the Good Friday Agreement has said. Jonathan Powell told BBC World News: “I don’t think this will take us back into the Troubles but I do think politicians are playing with matches. This is the time of…
The mixed messaging over the AstraZenca coronavirus jab is affecting vaccine confidence in low and middle income countries, the co-chair of the African Union’s Africa Vaccine Delivery Alliance for Covid-19 has said. Dr Ayoade Alakija told BBC World News that the vaccine is being rolled out to over two billion people and is often the…
Report: Builder Allows Cybercriminals to Create Specialized Office Documents Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • April 8, 2021 An EtterSilent DocuSign template from a campaign in March 2021. (Source: Intel 471) Researchers at Intel 471 report cybercriminal gangs are using a newly discovered malicious document builder called “EtterSilent” to create differentiated, hard-to-discover, malicious documents that…
A new day and here comes a new malware that aimed to trick Android smartphone users and steal their private data without their consent. As per a report coming from security firm Check Point Research, a fake Netflix app on Google Play Store targeted to spread malware by automatically responding to WhatsApp messages. Google has taken…
Autoreply attack! New Android malware found in Google Play Store spreads via malicious auto-replies to WhatsApp messages | IT Security News Sponsors Endpoint Cybersecurity www.endpoint-cybersecurity.com – Consulting in building your security products– Employee awareness training– Security tests for applications and pentesting… and more. Daily Summary Categories CategoriesSelect Category(ISC)2 Blog (323)(ISC)2 Blog infosec (13)(ISC)² Blog (336)2020-12-08 – Files for…
Ne’er-do-wells leaked personal data — including phone numbers — for some 553 million Facebook users this week. Facebook says the data was collected before 2020 when it changed things to prevent such information from being scraped from profiles. To my mind, this just reinforces the need to remove mobile phone numbers from all of your…
More than 533 million Facebook users had their personal information posted to a public hacker forum, a move that is raising concerns about an uptick in cybercrime leveraging the credentials. The publicly released Facebook user data is believed to be part of a 2019 “Add Friend” Facebook security bug exploited by hackers at the time.
Researchers Flag ‘FlixOnline’ as a Malicious Android Play Store App That Combines Social Engineering With WhatsApp Auto-Replies to Propagate Researchers have discovered new Android malware that uses Netflix as its lure and spreads malware via auto-replies to received WhatsApp messages. The discovery was reported to Google, and the malware – dubbed FlixOnline – has been removed from…
European Commission Suffers Major Security Incident | IT Security News 7. April 2021 A spokesperson confirmed that the European Commission, together with other European Union organizations, was hit by a cyberattack last week. The authorities did not disclose any details about the type of threats that hit the institutions, or the alleged threat actors behind…
Card Not Present Fraud , Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Gemini Advisory Says Russian Cybercriminal Sold Gift Card, Payment Card Data Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • April 6, 2021 The now-defunct Cardpool.com website (Source: Web.Archive.com) A Russian-speaking cybercriminal recently sold on a darknet forum thousands of stolen payment and gift cards that researchers…
