New Adobe Flash Zero-Day Exploit Found Hidden Inside MS Office Docs

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player that hackers are actively exploiting in the wild as part of a targeted campaign appears to be attacking a Russian state health care institution.

The vulnerabi… Continue reading New Adobe Flash Zero-Day Exploit Found Hidden Inside MS Office Docs

New Ransomware Spreading Rapidly in China Infected Over 100,000 PCs

A new piece of ransomware is spreading rapidly across China that has already infected more than 100,000 computers in the last four days as a result of a supply-chain attack… and the number of infected users is continuously increasing every hour.

Wha… Continue reading New Ransomware Spreading Rapidly in China Infected Over 100,000 PCs

Quora Gets Hacked – 100 Million Users Data Stolen

The World’s most popular question-and-answer website Quora has suffered a massive data breach with unknown hackers gaining unauthorized access to potentially sensitive personal information of about 100 million of its users.

Quora announced the inciden… Continue reading Quora Gets Hacked – 100 Million Users Data Stolen

FBI Shuts Down Multimillion Dollar – 3ve – Ad Fraud Operation

Google, the FBI, ad-fraud fighting company WhiteOps and a collection of cyber security companies worked together to shut down one of the largest and most sophisticated digital ad-fraud schemes that infected over 1.7 million computers to generate fake c… Continue reading FBI Shuts Down Multimillion Dollar – 3ve – Ad Fraud Operation

8 Popular Android Apps Caught Up In Million-Dollar Ad Fraud Scheme

Cheetah Mobile—a prominent Chinese app company, known for its popular utility apps like Clean Master and Battery Doctor—and one of its subsidiary Kika Tech have allegedly been caught up in an Android ad fraud scheme that stole millions of dollars from … Continue reading 8 Popular Android Apps Caught Up In Million-Dollar Ad Fraud Scheme

US Postal Service Left 60 Million Users Data Exposed For Over a Year

The United States Postal Service has patched a critical security vulnerability that exposed the data of more than 60 million customers to anyone who has an account at the USPS.com website.

The U.S.P.S. is an independent agency of the American federal … Continue reading US Postal Service Left 60 Million Users Data Exposed For Over a Year

How Just Opening A Site In Safari Could Have Hacked Your Apple macOS

Earlier this week Dropbox team unveiled details of three critical vulnerabilities in Apple macOS operating system, which altogether could allow a remote attacker to execute malicious code on a targeted Mac computer just by convincing a victim into visi… Continue reading How Just Opening A Site In Safari Could Have Hacked Your Apple macOS

Real Identity of Hacker Who Sold LinkedIn, Dropbox Databases Revealed

The real identity of Tessa88—the notorious hacker tied to several high-profile cyber attacks including the LinkedIn, DropBox and MySpace mega breaches—has been revealed as Maksim Vladimirovich Donakov (Максим Владимирович Донаков), a resident of Penza,… Continue reading Real Identity of Hacker Who Sold LinkedIn, Dropbox Databases Revealed

Two TalkTalk hackers jailed for 2015 data breach that cost it £77 million

Two hackers have been sent to prison for their roles in hacking TalkTalk, one of the biggest UK-based telecommunications company, in 2015 and stealing personal information, banking, and credit card details belonging to more than 156,000 customers.

Mat… Continue reading Two TalkTalk hackers jailed for 2015 data breach that cost it £77 million

Instagram Accidentally Exposed Some Users’ Passwords In Plaintext

Instagram has recently patched a security issue in its website that might have accidentally exposed some of its users’ passwords in plain text.

The company recently started notifying affected users of a security bug that resides in a newly offered fea… Continue reading Instagram Accidentally Exposed Some Users’ Passwords In Plaintext