New Android banking botnet ‘Geost’ hits thousands of devices
The botnet was basically composed of numerous Android phones which were were infected by getting them to download malicious applications.
Gaming giant Zynga data breach: 218 million records stolen
In the still earlier years of Facebook, around 2009, Farmville was the go-to game for me and thousands of users on Facebook. Built by Zynga, an American game developer, it surely made our lives more fun.
Leaky database exposes tax records of 20 million Russians
According to a report by Comparitech, more than 20 million tax records were found on an unprotected Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elasticsearch Cluste
Thousands of Windows PCs infected by Nodersok/Divergent fileless malware
A new fileless malware is on the rise which converts computers into bots that can be controlled by hackers remotely.
Hackers used fake job website to scam jobless US veterans
If users who happen to be mostly military veterans, in this case, followed standard principles of double-checking URLs and not downloading files from untrusted sources, they could have remained safe and avoided being the victim.
Hacker publishes ‘unpatchable’ permanent jailbreak for iPhone 4s to iPhone X
Apple's jailbreak just became easier.
An illegal prostitution ring took Kazakhstan offline
On 31st July 2019, internet users within Kazakhstan experienced a show of dismay unseen before. Suddenly, hundreds of website could not be accessed.
Poor security: 15,000 private webcams exposed to creeps
Your exposed webcams are backdoor for creeps.
Every Ecuadorian has been compromised in massive data breach
Data of Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks was also found in this breach who lived in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012 till April this year after being granted asylum initially.
New Linux malware is evading detection to mine cryptocurrency
Dubbed Skidmap by researchers; the Linux malware mines cryptocurrency and drop backdoor - All that without being detected.