News

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…

Advanced threat actors engaged in cyberespionage in APAC up their game in new campaign In June 2020, Kaspersky researchers uncovered an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. The final payload is a remote administration tool that provides full control over the infected device. Further analysis suggested that this…