Top infosec trends in the social media spotlight this week.

A research team suggested a new secure-by-design API after discovering design flaws in the way Android apps are verified by password managers.

The most popular subject lines crafted to trick targets into opening malicious messages, gleaned from thousands of phishing emails.

Western Digital releases a hotfix one year after the vulnerability was discovered.

The attack began Monday and continues to have an impact on services at the port.

Privacy-conscious users were unhappy at being signed in to browser without consent.

Over time, both enterprise and government networks have seen the network perimeter blur uncontrollably.

The U.S. Secret Service is warning financial institutions about a recent uptick in a form of ATM skimming that involves cutting cupcake-sized holes in a cash machine and then using a combination of magnets and medical devices to siphon customer account data directly from the card reader inside the ATM.

More than 20 percent of GitHub repositories containing an attack tool or an exploit proof of concept (PoC) are written in Python.

By Waqas

Cisco’s Talos researchers have identified that Russia’s VPNfilter is way more dangerous than it is believed to be. The malware, which prompted the FBI to urge people to reboot their internet routers, contains seven additional third-stage modules that are infecting countless global networking devices since 2016. The infected devices are mainly located in Ukraine as […]

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