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Numerous mobile users tricked to provide personal data

A phishing site promoting free flights tricked numerous users into revealing personal details. More
News Spam and phishing   2018-09-04

Mozilla Firefox will block tracking cookies to protect users' privacy

Mozilla is about to block tracking cookies in Firefox by default. More

The Fappening hacker gets 8 months in jail for leaking celebrity nudes

The 26-year old hacker is sentenced to 8 months in prison for stealing intimate photos of Jennifer Lawrence and others. More
News Security   2018-09-01

Huazhu Group hotel breach involves millions of customers

Millions of Huazhu Hotel Group customers involved in a serious data breach. More
News Security   2018-08-31

Users of Air Canada Mobile App informed about the breach

1% of Air Canada users are exposed to the data breach due to a mobile app's hack. More
News Security   2018-08-30

Fortnite for Android is vulnerable to malware attacks

Fortnite Android app is vulnerable to malware because of a serious vulnerability. More
News Viruses and parasites   2018-08-29

Phone scams on the rise: Australians lost over AU$4.4M since January

A significant increase in remote access scams in Australia. More
News   2018-08-28

AdvisorsBot: downloader targets large-scale restaurants and hotels

Researchers discovered AdvisorsBot modular downloader which is distributed via malspam campaigns. More
News Spam and phishing   2018-08-27

50.5 million Gomo App users' data exposed by Sungy Mobile

Numerous GOMO App users' data leaked. According to a famous researcher named Flash Gordon, on the 25th of May, he found that various GOMO Apps users had their data exposed by a popular Chinese development company called Sungy Mobile. More
News Security   2018-08-25

T-Mobile hacked: personal data of 2 million users exposed

No financial data was affected by the T-Mobile hack. The telecommunications giant T-Mobile US announced that hackers might have accessed personal data of 2 million customers. More
News   2018-08-24

The fake hack: Superdrug targeted by fraudsters

Hacker claimed to have the personal information of 20,000 Superdrug users. More
News   2018-08-23

Organizations start facing the cruelty of Ryuk ransomware

Ryuk ransomware starts its attacks. Victims are demanded a 50 BTC ransom. More
News Viruses and parasites   2018-08-22

Beware of malspam campaigns spreading ransomware viruses

Cybersecurity researchers spotted active spam campaigns pushing infamous ransomware viruses. More
News Spam and phishing   2018-08-21

Apple Hack: a 16-year-old got into "the unhackable" servers

The 16-year-old hacker accessed more than 90 GB of data stored on Apple's servers. More
News   2018-08-20

Princess Evolution ransomware offered as RaaS on an underground market

Hackers promote Princess Evolution as ransomware as a service in the dark web. More
News Viruses and parasites   2018-08-19