Evidence shows that three of the most destructive incidents seen in modern cyber-history are the work of one APT.

By Waqas

Newly discovered Trojan malware, which has been dubbed as GPlayed by the IT security experts at Cisco Talos, disguises itself as Google Play Store to trick users into downloading it. After getting installed, it steals location information and bank details from the device. Additionally, it is capable of transferring code between desktop and mobile platforms. […]

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Facebook's VP of product management was able to discuss more specifics about how the breach itself occurred.

It's time to reimagine employee training with fresh, more aggressive approaches that better treat email security as a fundamentally human problem.

By Carolina

Google Maps is full of surprises, primarily thanks to some of its funniest, creepiest, and strangest street view images. In 2013, a father found his son’s dead body image and crime scene on Google Maps but who could have imagined this seemingly harmless technology would force a married couple to divorce? A woman in Peru was […]

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By Waqas

The IT security researchers at Palo Alto Networks has identified that a fake Flash updater is circulating the web and fooling computer users by sneakily installing cryptocurrency mining bot XMRig. In the past few months, researchers have identified 113 fake updaters installing cryptomining malware on targeted devices. The notorious updater is actively attacking computers since August […]

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Earlier this month I spoke at a cybersecurity conference in Albany, N.Y. alongside Tony Sager, senior vice president and chief evangelist at the Center for Internet Security and a former bug hunter at the U.S. National Security Agency. We  talked at length about many issues, including supply chain security, and I asked Sager whether he'd heard anything about rumors that Supermicro -- a high tech firm in San Jose, Calif. -- had allegedly inserted hardware backdoors in technology sold to a number of American companies.

By Waqas

FBI has asked Facebook not to discuss who may be behind this attack. On September 28th, 2018 the social media giant Facebook announced that it suffered a massive data breach in which hackers stole access tokens of millions of accounts after exploiting a critical vulnerability in its “View As” feature. At that time, the estimate […]

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A survey of ICS security posture found outdated firewalls, improper segmentation password mistakes and more.

They cite five main reasons for wanting to move on - and what it would take to retain them.