Tag: security
Some Samsung Exynos phone chips have a worrying security flaw
Some Samsung smartphones were reportedly carrying a high severity vulnerability in their processors, allowing threat actors to escalate privileges and possibly drop malware on the devices. Cybersecurity researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) found the flaw and reported it to Samsung, which addressed the vulnerability on October 7, with…
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Thousands of WordPress websites hacked via plugin looking to steal user data
A new variant of the infamous ClearFake (AKA ClickFix) malware has been detected in the wild, and has already managed to compromise thousands of WordPress websites. Researchers from GoDaddy claim to have spotted a variant of this campaign, which installs malicious plugins to sites on the website builder. The threat…
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AI tools are being increasingly abused to launch cyberattacks
A growing number of cyberattacks are being launched with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLM), new research has claimed. A report from Imperva noted between April and September 2024, its Threat Research team analyzed thousands of attacks, finding retail sites collectively experience more than 500,000…
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Several top E2EE cloud storage providers have serious security flaws
Some cloud storage providers offering end-to-end encryption (E2EE) are largely operating a broken ecosystem which could, in very realistic theory, allow threat actors to tamper with the files in a way that should not be possible, experts have claimed. In an in-depth analysis, recently published on the brokencloudstorage.info website, cybersecurity…
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Intel and AMD chips are under attack from a new generation of Spectre threats
It seems as Spectre still haunts Intel and AMD processors after cybersecurity researchers found new working speculative execution attacks. To improve their performance, modern processors try to “guess” what tasks to do next. Speculative execution attacks abuse this mechanism to trick the computer into leaking private information, like passwords or…
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Insurance giant Globe Life says it’s being extorted by hackers
American insurance giant Globe Life recently confirmed that cybercriminals tried to extort money in exchange for sensitive data they previously stole. In mid-June 2024, the company reported a cybersecurity incident in which unknown third parties accessed sensitive customer data through one of its web portals. It has now submitted a…
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