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The ministry of information technology in China has opted to pull back from its collaboration with Alibaba temporarily. The ministry deals with industry and issues involving IT and has collaborated with Alibaba in the past. However, the ministry issued a statement that stated that they will be pulling back from the partnership for a while. […]
Well over three billion devices run on Java worldwide. However, logging libraries are few, which is why many of the devices are most likely to run the popular logging framework, Log4j. Currently, security experts and huge businesses worldwide are on the lookout for a vulnerability known as Log4Shell in the Log4j, Java software component. Cyber […]
MonoX security breach was caused by a bug in smart contracts meanwhile Badger is still investigating the incident. Two DeFi projects BadgerDAO and MonoX are the latest victims of security breaches in which hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency has been stolen by hackers. It is worth noting that both projects became victims […]
BitMart Exchange has confirmed that the security breach involves one of its ETH hot wallets and one of BSC hot wallets. BitMart Exchange, a cryptocurrency trading platform has suffered a “large-scale” security breach in which hackers have stolen funds worth $150 million, the company said today on Twitter. With this breach, BitMart has added its […]
The latest Omicron phishing scam is currently targeting unsuspecting users in the United Kingdom and uses fake NHS emails to do so. Omicron is the new variant of COVID-19 that has stirred anxiety worldwide, and scammers are eager to exploit this new opportunity to trap innocent users and steal data. According to consumer watchdog group […]
Ascendex has lost $77 million worth of RC20, BSC, and Polygon tokens to cyberattack. A popular cryptocurrency exchange, Ascendex has become the latest victim of a security breach, letting hackers gain control of some of the exchange’s hot wallets. For your information, hot wallets are internet-connected cryptocurrency wallets that owners can access through a private […]
This was the second time that a Twitter account linked to PM Modi got compromised for a Bitcoin-related scam. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official Twitter handle (@narendramodi) got briefly hacked by a yet unidentified hacker. The hacking occurred early Sunday morning. This is the second hack attack on an account connected to the Indian […]
Every single day, hundreds of thousands of internet users are victims of some form of cyberattack. The number of hackers is daily growing and so are their strategies. The different forms of malware are constantly evolving. This forces users to be on guard against any lurking attacks. In recent times, there has been a wide […]
Microsoft has been developing a project collaboration solution for enterprise projects. The Loop app is now accessible to Microsoft 365 commercial customers. The Loop app is an independent software on the Microsoft Teams chat platform that can be integrated with other apps or used solely. Its goal is to assist businesses in expediting project details, meeting […]
DNA Diagnostics Center (DDC) has revealed that hackers managed to access highly sensitive and personal data of users including payment card data. The Fairfield, Ohio-based DNA testing service DNA Diagnostics Center (DDC) has disclosed a data breach in which sensitive personal and financial data of more than 2.1 million (2,102,436) customers/users has been stolen by […]
Phishing is an email or SMS from an imposter pretending to be from a legitimate brand to induce people to hand over private information, passwords, and financial card details. It remains a highly effective attack formula. IKEA is handling a vector attack where hackers are using reply chain emails to spread dangerous malware via seemingly […]
Robinhood data breach involved social engineering attack in which hackers called a customer service staff member and somehow gained access to the support system. A widely used stock trading app, Robinhood, has confirmed suffering a major data breach “late in the evening of November 3.” According to Robinhood, hackers could access data of 7 million users, […]
The FBI acknowledged the unauthorized access over the weekend revealing that spam emails were sent from the agency’s email server to thousands of organizations. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has categorically denied sending spam emails from its server, which according to reports, hit 100,000 inboxes on late Friday night and early Saturday. The agency […]
A report from government agencies in Taiwan indicates that the country faces over five million cyber probes and attacks daily. The report also warned of the rising Chinese cyber warfare, which targets the independent island. According to Taiwan officials, the island is under millions of cyber-attacks, with over 50 percent of the attacks originating from […]
Government agencies in Taiwan have been facing frequent cyber attacks. The island faces multiple threats daily, in the form of cyberattacks and probes. With attacks coming in the millions the approximated number of probes coming in daily are around five million. The island has been facing increases in cyber warfare. The self-ruled island believes that […]
Iranian Hackers Leaked Private Messages and sensitive data of 690,000 Israeli LGBTQ Dating App Atraf Users After $1 Million Ransom is Denied. An Iranian hacking group was denied its ransom demand worth around $1 million, after which it released sensitive private data of countless users of Atraf, an Israeli LGBTQ dating site. The group, known […]
The hack took place after one of the bZx’s employees was sent a phishing email embedded with a malicious macro hidden in an MS word document, which, when downloaded, ran a script allowing the attacker to obtain the developer’s personal mnemonic cryptocurrency wallet phrase. A decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform called bZx has suffered a […]
Defining zero-day A zero-day (0day) vulnerability is a security flaw for which there is no mitigation or fixes available at the time of press release or publication. Existing software fixes cannot adequately fight against zero-day exploits, making such attacks a severe security concern for businesses. An attack that uses a zero-day vulnerability is like a […]
Reportedly, the database also contains personal information of Argentinian President Alberto Fernández, football superstars Sergio Aguero and Lionel Messi. After the infamous La Gorra Leaks in 2017 and the exposure of Argentinian politicians and law enforcement officials in 2019, Argentine is back in the news for all the wrong reasons. This time, hackers have reportedly […]
The warning comes days after three rogue packages, okhsa, klow, and klown discovered by DevSecOps firm Sonatype, were removed from the NPM repository. On Friday, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a warning to disclose an incident related to the GitHub Advisory Database. According to CISA, a crypto-mining malware was hidden in a popular […]
Adobe recently released a collection of emergency patches with remedies for over 90 tabulated vulnerabilities that endanger Linux, macOS, and Windows users, exposing them to cruel cybercriminal attacks. The security limitations affect various popular products like Adobe Premiere, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe Photoshop. Adobe confirmed 92 dangers in all the products and observed […]