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A series of critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in Qualcomm chipsets that could allow hackers to compromise Android devices remotely just by sending malicious packets over-the-air with no user interaction.
Discovered by security researchers … Continue reading New Flaws in Qualcomm Chips Expose Millions of Android Devices to Hacking
Cisco Systems has agreed to pay $8.6 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of knowingly selling video surveillance system containing severe security vulnerabilities to the U.S. federal and state government agencies.
It’s believed to be … Continue reading Cisco ‘Knowingly’ Sold Hackable Video Surveillance System to U.S. Government
FaceApp—the AI-powered photo-morphing app that recently gone viral for its age filter but hit the headlines for its controversial privacy policy—has been found collecting the list of your Facebook friends for no reason.
The Russian-made FaceApp has be… Continue reading Viral FaceApp Unnecessarily Requests Access to Users’ Facebook Friends List
Yesterday, some residents of Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa, were left without electricity after the city’s power company got attacked by a ransomware virus.
City Power, the company responsible for powering South Africa’s financial cap… Continue reading Ransomware Attack Caused Power Outages in the Biggest South African City
The fileless code injection technique called Process Doppelgänging is actively being used by not just one or two but a large number of malware families in the wild, a new report shared with The Hacker News revealed.
Discovered in late 2017, Process Do… Continue reading Popular Malware Families Using ‘Process Doppelgänging’ to Evade Detection
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of WatchBog, a Linux-based cryptocurrency mining malware botnet, which now also includes a module to scan the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep flaw.
BlueKeep is a highl… Continue reading Linux Botnet Adding BlueKeep-Flawed Windows RDP Servers to Its Target List
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today officially confirmed that Facebook has agreed to pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine over privacy violations surrounding the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Besides the multibillion-dollar penalty, the company h… Continue reading Facebook Agrees to Pay $5 Billion Fine and Setup New Privacy Program for 20 Years
If you are in Kazakhstan and unable to access the Internet service without installing a certificate, you’re not alone.
The Kazakhstan government has once again issued an advisory to all major local Internet Service Providers (ISPs) asking them to make… Continue reading Kazakhstan Begins Intercepting HTTPS Internet Traffic Of All Citizens Forcefully
If you think that the media files you receive on your end-to-end encrypted secure messaging apps can not be tampered with, you need to think again.
Security researchers at Symantec yesterday demonstrated multiple interesting attack scenarios against W… Continue reading Hackers Can Manipulate Media Files You Receive Via WhatsApp and Telegram
Watch out! Facebook-owned photo-sharing service has recently patched a critical vulnerability that could have allowed hackers to compromise any Instagram account without requiring any interaction from the targeted users.
Instagram is growing quickly—a… Continue reading This Flaw Could Have Allowed Hackers to Hack Any Instagram Account Within 10 Minutes