Category: CYBER SECURITY

Over half (52 percent) of organizations have suffered a data breach in the past two years globally, an increase from 49 percent in 2022 and 39 percent in 2021, a new report said on Wednesday.

The Justice Department announced today a coordinated international operation against Genesis Market, a criminal online marketplace that advertised and sold packages of account access credentials – such as usernames and passwords for email, bank accounts, and social media – that had been stolen from malware-infected...

Data storage leader Western Digital said that cyber-criminals exfiltrated data from its systems during a "network security incident".

US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that bars federal agencies from buying third-party commercial spyware like Pegasus that poses significant counterintelligence or security risks to the US government or significant risks of improper use by a foreign government or foreign person.

Twitter has admitted that parts of its source code were leaked online on GitHub, and has sent a copyright infringement notice to the open-source coding collaboration platform, the media reported.

Microsoft has released an update to fix a screenshot editing vulnerability in Windows 10 and 11 that allows threat actors to recover modified screenshot sections.

The US Department of Justice has announced it arrested the founder of BreachForums, the world's largest hacker forum, which operated as a marketplace for cybercriminals to buy, sell, and trade hacked or stolen data and other contraband since March 2022.

WordPress is force installing a security update on hundreds of thousands of websites running the highly popular WooCommerce Payments for online stores.

As with all Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities, these could be leveraged for a complete site takeover as long as an unauthenticated attacker could successfully trick a site administrator into performing an action, such as clicking on a link or visiting a website under the attacker’s...

This trojanized version, which has accumulated over 9,000 downloads, masquerades as the popular "ChatGPT for Google" add-on that allows ChatGPT integration on search results. However, it contains extra code that targets Facebook session cookies in an attempt to steal Facebook accounts.

Researchers have tracked 55 zero-day vulnerabilities that were exploited in 2022 by hackers, most targeting Microsoft, Google and Apple products, a new report has shown.

Google has suspended the Chinese shopping app Pinduoduo after finding malware in versions of the software, the media reported.

Mobile users are expected to lose a massive $58 billion to fraudulent scam calls globally this year, a report showed on Monday.

If exploited, this vulnerability allows threat actors to gain elevated privileges by taking over arbitrary accounts.

Cybercriminals used three new novel tactics such as misuse of web translation, image-only emails, and the insertion of special characters in phishing attacks during January 2023, a new report has shown.