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Phishers Exploit Salesforce’s Email Services Zero-Day in Targeted Facebook Campaign

A sophisticated Facebook phishing campaign has been observed exploiting a zero-day flaw in Salesforce’s email services, allowing threat actors to craft targeted phishing messages using the company’s domain and infrastructure. “Those phishing campaigns cleverly evade conventional detection methods by chaining the Salesforce vulnerability and legacy quirks in Facebook’s Web Games platform,” Guardio Labs researchers Oleg […]

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New Android Malware ‘FluHorse’ Targeting East Asian Markets with Deceptive Tactics

Various sectors in East Asian markets have been subjected to a new email phishing campaign that distributes a previously undocumented strain of Android malware called FluHorse that abuses the Flutter software development framework. “The malware features several malicious Android applications that mimic legitimate applications, most of which have more than 1,000,000 installs,” Check Point said […]

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Twitter Accepts It Used Users’ 2FA Phone Numbers For Ad Targeting

As part of a new privacy breach that has surfaced recently, the micro-blogging site Twitter has admitted that it used users’ mobile numbers for ad targeting. Twitter’s “Inadvertent” Privacy Breach According to an official statement, Twitter said it made a “mistake” and unintentionally used users’ phone numbers and email addresses. Users provided the details for […]

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Malicious Apps from Google PlayStore Bypassing SMS-Based Two-Factor Authentication and Steal OTPs in SMS

Researchers discovered new malicious Android apps from Google Play Store bypassing SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) mechanisms and steal the OTP without SMS’s permission. Google recently restrict other apps to use of high risk or sensitive permissions, including the SMS or Call Log in March 2019 that leads malware and credentials stealing apps lost its permissions. Newly uncovered malicious apps […]

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Man Sues Apple Because It’s Trying To Make iPhones Too Secure

With new security issues cropping up each day, people are looking for ways to make their smartphones more secure. However, one man doesn’t seem to like the development and has, in turn, sued Apple for attempting to keep its smartphones safe. According to a report by MacRumors, Jay Brodsky, who lives in New York, has […]

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Reddit Hacked: Here’s How To Know If You Were Compromised

The popular news aggregator website Reddit has revealed that it suffered a data breach between June 14 and 18. While Reddit calls the attack “serious,” it hasn’t disclosed the number of users affected and said no data was altered. The hacker got read-only access to “some systems that contained backup data, source code, and other logs.” […]

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Now Make Your Firefox Account Safer With New Two Factor Authentication

It seems that tech giants, finally, are gearing up to make portals more secure. In an announcement made yesterday, Mozilla has announced two-factor authentication for Firefox accounts. It is an optional security feature that will require inserting authentication code after signing in your Firefox account with your credentials. The newly introduced two-step verification feature is […]

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Facebook Makes Two-Factor Authentication Easier to Set Up

In a bid to make things easier for users while signing in, Facebook has endeavored to make two-factor authentication easier to set up. The two-factor authentication is always looked upon as a key factor as regards cybersecurity, but it could make signing in a pain for users, to a small extent at least. Now, Facebook […]

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How To Enable Two-factor Authentication For Google, Facebook?

Short Bytes: Two-factor authentication is amongst many options, yet one of the most underestimated methods, to improve your online security. If you haven’t enabled the 2-step verification for your password protection yet, then it is time you go for it. When Google itself recommends methods to stay safe online, then it is time you understand the gravity […]

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