A number of reports show CVE-2019-0604 is under active attack, Alien Labs researchers say.

Eight Americans and an Irishman have been charged with wire fraud this week for allegedly hijacking mobile phones through SIM-swapping, a form of fraud in which scammers bribe or trick employees at mobile phone stores into seizing control of the target's phone number and diverting all texts and phone calls to the attacker's mobile device. From there, the attackers simply start requesting password reset links via text message for a variety of accounts tied to the hijacked phone number.

All told, the government said this gang -- allegedly known to its members as "The Community" -- made more than $2.4 million stealing cryptocurrencies and extorting people for restoring access to social media accounts that were hijacked after a successful SIM-swap.

The WannaCry attack proved pivotal, changing the way organizations go about securing their environments.

The WannaCry attack proved pivotal, changing the way organizations go about securing their environments.

Same-site cookie support arriving for Chrome later this year

Nvidia has patched three vulnerabilities in its Windows GPU display driver that could enable information disclosure, denial of service and privilege escalation.

Top infosec trends in the social media spotlight this week

Slowly but steadily, developers are being given the tools with which to tame the promiscuous and often insecure world of the browser cookie.

Three steps you can take, based on Department of Homeland Security priorities.

By Ryan De Souza

Fxsmsp Threat Group, “a credible hacking collective” is offering to sell source code of major anti-virus software for a whopping $300,000. The servers of three high-profile anti-virus firms have allegedly been compromised by a group of elite Russian hackers. The hacker group, known as Fxsmsp, claims to have stolen the companies’ software source code after […]

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