“Fleeceware” apps plague Google Play with 600 million downloads
“Fleeceware” apps – a new type of fraud Google yet to defeat With over 2.5 million apps on Google Play, the industry giant has
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TikTok flaw allowed hackers to read text messages and control accounts
TikTok's security vulnerabilities, misused in hijacking accounts and manipulating them, is finally patched The social media platform, TikTok, is based on sharing short-form looping videos.
Japanese sex hotel disaster: search engine leaked customer personal data
The popular Love Hotel search engine Happy Hotel suffered a data breach HappyHotel.jp, a website that is used to book sex hotels in Japan,
Insecure database exposes data of 2.4 million Wyze’s customers
A mistake by Wyze's employee resulted in three weeks of customer data exposure online A data leak was recently announced by smart tech device
Massive data breach affected Wawa – customer credit card details exposed
Wawa claims “potentially all” locations affected Convenience store and gas station chain Wawa has experienced a data breach that most likely impacted its all
LifeLabs pays ransom to get 15M patients’ records back
LifeLabs releases a report about what type of customer data was put at risk after exposure LifeLabs is a healthcare-related company, located in Canada,
Almost half a million Turkish credit cards’ details sold on dark web
The credit card data was put on Joker's Stash underground forum in four batches Security researchers at Group-IB discovered a new data leak – this
More than 30K piracy sites disabled by Europol, three hackers arrested
US National Intellectual Property Right Coordination Centre takes down 30 506 websites with pirated products Europol has released an official report about a specific
Chrome and Firefox users are being spied by AVG and Avast plug-ins
Suspicious AVG and Avast extensions can record the browsing data of users using Chrome or Firefox as their default browser Chrome and Firefox web
Mixcloud data breach: 21 million users affected
Mixcloud users' emails, hashed passwords and usernames are now being sold on the underground forums Music Streaming platform Mixcloud suffered a data breach that
Adobe disclosed Magento data leak that affected user information
Adobe discovered the data leak at the end of November According to Adobe, Magento Marketplace suffered from a major data breach that affected user
Video chatting popularity increases the risk of identity theft and scams
The rise of video chatting in the last decade brings more risks to consumers Since the beginning of the current decade, technology has taken
Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus affected by data breach
The attackers managed to reach personal customer data due to website vulnerability OnePlus, the Chinese smartphone manufacturer, suffered a data breach that impacted some
Black Friday 2019: government reminds shoppers to stay aware of scams
Black Friday and Cyber Monday security risks should bring more attention to holiday season cybercrime awareness It is claimed that online shoppers are more
Android smartphones in danger – new flaw helps bogus apps secretly access camera
CVE-2019-2234, new camera app vulnerability, allows remote attackers to record videos on Android smartphones Security researchers have reported about an Android-based camera vulnerability that