Google Chrome extension developers have been left high and dry for weeks as the company struggles to cope with a spike in fraud on the Chrome Web Store.

Hefty collection of U.S. and international payment cards from the incident revealed in December found up for sale on dark-web marketplace Joker’s Stash.

"We are here to show people that everything is hackable," says hacking group OurMine, back to spread its unwelcome spiel on hacked accounts.

In the past few years, social media has transformed from a communications gold mine to a minefield of disinformation campaigns.

Researchers have release a new proof-of-concept attack targeting a new Intel Speculative-type bug called CacheOut present in most Intel CPUs.

Threat actors leveraging social media for hacks and misinformation are growing more coordinated.

In late December 2019, fuel and convenience store chain Wawa Inc. said a nine-month-long breach of its payment card processing systems may have led to the theft of card data from customers who visited any of its 850 locations nationwide. Now, fraud experts say the first batch of card data stolen from Wawa customers is being sold at one of the underground's most popular crime shops, which claims to have 30 million records to peddle from a new nationwide breach.

Finally, some good news about CCPA: If you've built your security infrastructure to PCI DSS standards, you may be already covered by California's new data protection rules

The Amazon-owned video doorbell uses third-party trackers to serve up rich data to marketers without meaningfully notifying users.

By Sudais Asif

It turns out Avast is using your browsing data to make big bucks. Here is what the new documents have revealed...

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