Due to the recent surge in phishing scams targeting WhatsApp users, Binance, the world’s leading blockchain ecosystem and provider of cryptocurrency infrastructure, clarifies that its only official communication channels are through platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, and email. Binance has seen an increase in the social engineering attemptsRead More…
ESET researchers have discovered dozens of copycat Telegram and WhatsApp websites targeting mainly Android and Windows users with trojanized versions of these instant messaging apps. Most of the malicious apps we identified are clippersRead More…
During the annual ESET World conference, ESET researchers have been presenting about a new investigation into the infamous Lazarus APT group. Director of ESET Threat Research Jean-Ian Boutin went over various new campaigns perpetrated by the Lazarus groupRead More…
Check Point Research (CPR) exposed a security vulnerability in WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging application with over 2 billion active users. An attacker could have exploited the vulnerability to read sensitive information from WhatsApp memory. The vulnerability was rooted in WhatsApp’s image filter function.Read More…
Tamer Odeh, Regional Director at SentinelOne, Middle East, discusses the reality of data privacy and how to maximize privacy online.Read More…
With attacks on WhatsApp users on the rise, Rafe Pilling, Senior Security Researcher, Secureworks, explains to the readers of Security MEA the type of attacks being seen and how users can protect themselves.Read 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…
The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) has warned consumers to be on their guard against scam messages being sent out via Whatsapp. Fraudulent messages claiming to be from the CBUAE or banks operating in the country are being sent out. A statement from the central bank said: “CBUAE advisesRead More…
