A new business email compromise (BEC) scam targeting company customers by asking for aging reports from employees, has been discovered by Agari Cyber Intelligence Division. BEC scammers impersonate CEOs of targeted companies and request information from employees on invoices that are overdue for payment in the form of an agingRead More…
Kaspersky has uncovered a significant rise in the use of malware designed to harvest consumers’ digital data, known as password stealers. According to Kaspersky’s data, the number of consumers targeted by stealers increased from less than 600,000 people in the first half of 2018 to over 940,000 during the same periodRead More…
A critical flaw impacting millions of mobile and internet of things (IoT) devices running NVIDIA’s Tegra processor has opened the door for several attacks, including device hijacking or siphoning of data. The warning comes from a cybersecurity researcher, who discovered the flaw and asserts that the bug “affects every singleRead More…
Google is conducting a “root-and-branch review” of third-party developer access to user data. The company has now said its new policy for Minimum Permission and Updated User Data Policy will be enforced starting October 15, 2019 — in other words, Chrome will no longer support sketchy extensions that gather data on Read More…
As many as 1% of enterprises say they cannot detect breach attempts today without the use of AI technologies and 48% say their budgets for AI in cybersecurity will increase by an average of 29% in Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, according to a report titled Capgemini’s Reinventing Cybersecurity with ArtificialRead More…
Firefox should soon be equipped with a new function that will tell you if your personal data (e-mail address, passwords, address, etc.) has been pirated, says a report on the Bleeping Computer. The Mozilla team is gradually integrating its independent Firefox Monitor service natively into Firefox. The service, which lists everyRead More…
Cybersecurity researchers have reported a critical flaw in the Android versions of WhatsApp and Telegram that allows attackers to manipulate media files sent via the apps. This vulnerability could allow attackers to alter photographs, modify invoices (in financial scams), swap files in a particular channel feed, or potentially even manipulate audioRead More…
Genetec partnered with Cylance, to bring AI-based antivirus protection to its appliances customers. Through this partnership, the company will offer additional cyber security protection to its Streamvault family of infrastructure solutions by including CylancePROTECTRead More…
