New espionage attempts target WHO (The World Health Organization) in order to steal information about the possible cures, tests or vaccines for COVID-19.
As the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic continues, the number of attacks doubled, according to officials. Most recently…
CrazyCoin is
the newest virus that researchers recently discovered. It spreads
through the EternalBlue exploit kit and it incorporates many
capabilities in its arsenal.
According to researchers, CrazyCoin incorporates mining, hacking and “backdoor” modules that…
A clever phishing campaign uses Google News to trick users. This impersonates Google’s news website, by using homographic characters. Thus, attackers redirect unsuspecting users to phishing pages. In these attacks, American Standard Code for Information Interchange…
A bug in the Facebook anti-spam system mistakenly eliminated legitimate news stories and also other posts. The system miscategorized them as violating content. So, many users complained that their posts, including some regarding the Coronavirus outbreak were taken down.
As the online Covid-19 threats become worse, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in the UK took some steps. So, they started removing malicious and phishing websites linked to them. Still, they warned that attacks could increase if the outbreak does.
The Government…
Microsoft patched an RCE vulnerability as an emergency. But this happened only after some security partners accidentally disclosed the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol.
The fix from Microsoft addresses a remote code execution vulnerability (RCE). This is because it…
Microsoft busted Necurs botnets, which infected more than nine million computers since 2012. Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) worked together with BitSight and other partners across 35 countries.
They managed to disrupt it after years of study focused on…
Update (03.09.2019: World Health Organization (WHO) issued a warning regarding the cybercriminals that pretend to be WHO.
The World Health Organization announced it would never ask users to login to view safety information or email attachments the users did not…
Security analysts discovered a huge hole in Intel’s read-only memory. Afterwards, they said that nobody can fix it. Moreover, this leaves all Intel’s devices exposed, except Intel’s latest 10th generation devices. The security company Positive Technologies…
Facebook is concerned about domain names used for phishing. So, the company takes action and announced it filed a lawsuit in Arizona, against Namecheap. According to the social media giant, the domain name registrar aims to deceive people. They do this by misleading users…
