Group-IB is warning retail investors and financial institutions across the GCC that two investment fraud models documented by its researchers this year are readily transferable to Gulf markets.Read More…
Kaspersky has uncovered a new phishing campaign targeting WhatsApp users through a fraudulent voting scheme. This attack lures victims with a voting page allegedly featuring young athletes, but other voting topics are being exploited as well.Read More…
User’s messaging app account might be of interest not only to jealous spouses and nosy coworkers, but also to cybercriminals. Stolen WhatsApp accounts are used for various types of criminal activity, ranging from spam distribution to sophisticated scam schemes.Read More…
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…
