Android Messenger App Still Leaking Photos, Videos
The GO SMS Pro app has been downloaded 100 million times; now, underground forums are actively sharing images stolen from GO SMS servers.
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Cyberattacks on Squid Game Minecraft Tourney Take Down Andorra’s Internet
Some of the bursts of traffic reached up to 10Gbps, reports noted, overwhelming the country's only ISP, and crippling Andorran Squidcraft gamers along with the rest of the population.
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ThreatList: 1 Out of 5 Would Ditch a Business After a Data Breach
A full 21 percent of survey respondents would walk away from a business permanently after a major hack.
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Facebook Makes Its CTF Platform Freely Available
Facebook today made its capture the flag platform freely available on GitHub, which includes a ready-made backend and a set of pre-defined challenges.
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Zerologon Patches Roll Out Beyond Microsoft
A Samba patch and a micropatch for end-of-life servers have debuted in the face of the critical vulnerability.
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Spam and phishing in 2016
The year in figures
According to Kaspersky Lab, in 2016:
The proportion of spam in email flows was 58.31%, which is 3.03 percentage points more than in 2015.
62.16% of spam emails were no...
OpenSea ‘Free Gift’ NFTs Drain Cryptowallet Balances
Cybercriminals exploited bugs in the world's largest digital-goods marketplace to create malicious artwork offered as a perk to unsuspecting users.
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Twitter Flaw Exposed Direct Messages To External Developers
The company said it has issued a patch for the issue, which has been ongoing since May 2017.
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ThreatList: Malware Samples Targeting IoT More Than Double in 2018
A honeypot set up to sniff out data on infected IoT devices found a broad array of compromised devices – from Mikrotik routers to dishwashers.
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Cloudflare Shares National Security Letter It Received in 2013
Cloudflare on Tuesday was finally able to post a National Security Letter it received from the FBI back in 2013.
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