Authorities dismantle online piracy hackers network Sparks Group
A criminal network of copyright and infringing hackers called the Sparks Group has been dismantled.
August 27, 2020
Nasty malware duo pre-installed on thousands of cheap Android phones
The pre-installed Triada and xhelper malware have so far carried out a total of 19.2 million suspicious transactions.
August 24, 2020
Ex-Uber CSO Joseph Sullivan charged over 2016 data breach cover up
Joseph Sullivan also paid hackers $100,000 in Bitcoin.
August 21, 2020
US-Cert warns of North Korean BLINDINGCAN malware
The malware variant ensued by the North Korean threat actors is called BLINDINGCAN.
August 20, 2020
US Secret Service used ‘Locate X’ to track user location without warrant
Locate X collects location data from smartphone apps.
August 19, 2020
AI firm exposes 2.5 million sensitive medical records online
The data also includes records belonging to victims of auto-related incidents.
August 18, 2020
XCSSET Malware targets macOS by infecting Xcode developer projects
The entry point of XCSSET malware is still unknown to researchers.
August 15, 2020
Medical software firm leakes personal data of 3.1 million patients
Somehow, the misconfigured Elasticsearch cluster did not contain medical data of patients.
August 13, 2020
TikTok collected MAC addresses for Android phones against Google’s ToS
TikTok also collected unique identifiers and sent them to Byte Dance, its parent company.
August 12, 2020
Smart Lock vulnerability can give hackers full access to Wi-Fi network
The vulnerability exists in the August smart lock Pro + Connect model which hasn't been fixed.
August 12, 2020