Facebook has filed a lawsuit against two shady Android app developers accused of making illegal money by hijacking users’ smartphones to fraudulently click on Facebook …
Reverse RDP Attack Also Enables Guest-to-Host Escape in Microsoft Hyper-V
Remember the reverse RDP attack? Earlier this year, researchers disclosed[1] clipboard hijacking and path-traversal issues in Microsoft’s Windows built-in RDP client that could allow a …
Binance KYC Data Leak — Crypto Exchange Sets $290,000 Bounty On Blackmailer
Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange Binance has become a victim of a ransom demand from a scammer who claimed to have hacked the KYC (Know Your Customer) …
KDE Linux Desktops Could Get Hacked Without Even Opening Malicious Files
If you are running a KDE desktop environment on your Linux operating system, you need to be extra careful and avoid downloading any “.desktop” or …
SWAPGS Attack — New Speculative Execution Flaw Affects All Modern Intel CPUs
A new variant of the Spectre (Variant 1)[1] side-channel vulnerability has been discovered that affects modern Intel CPUs[2] which leverage speculative-execution, and some AMD processors as …
Pakistani Man Bribed AT&T Insiders to Plant Malware and Unlock 2 Million Phones
United States federal government has charged a Pakistani national for bribing employees at AT&T telecommunication company over a period of five years to help unlock …
New Flaws in Qualcomm Chips Expose Millions of Android Devices to Hacking
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 …
Researchers Discover New Ways to Hack WPA3 Protected WiFi Passwords
The same team of cybersecurity researchers who discovered several severe vulnerabilities, collectively dubbed as Dragonblood, in the newly launched WPA3 WiFi security standard few months …
Cisco ‘Knowingly’ Sold Hackable Video Surveillance System to U.S. Government
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 …
