News

Increasing ad sales and AI make Baidu beat estimates

Ad sales helped Baidu, China’s search engine, beat the expectations set on the Wall Street. Thus, in the third quarter of the year, the company reported that its revenues went above estimates, thanks to strong ad sales. Also, the growth came as a result of high demand…
News

Hackers used cookie theft to hijack YouTube Accounts

Attackers used cookie theft in order to hijack the channels of high-profile YouTube creators. It’s no secret that cryptocurrency scams are running rampant. Recently, hacker-for-hire networks have taken to posing as YouTubers and luring creators with bogus…
News

Companies use Google ads to promote spying apps

Some Google ads forced the company to ban some of them for “stalkerware” apps, which can be bought and downloaded by anyone. These consumer-grade spyware apps are often marketed to parents, who want to use them to monitor their child’s activities with the…
News

Phishing scams: Chinese malware gang targets India

According to Blackberry’s Research and Intelligence Team, there are three phishing scams targeting Indian nationals. They are apparently coming from a Chinese state-sponsored malware gang. Phishing scams from old attackers Blackberry identified an Advanced…