Tag: security
This crafty iPhone attack makes you think your phone is safe…until it’s hacked
Lockdown Mode, an iPhone feature introduced with iOS 16, is not an antivirus, does not detect malware, and cannot prevent malware from operating. Therefore, hackers can create a fake Lockdown Mode and run malware operating in the background unabated, a report from Jamf Threat Labs has noted. “Apple‘s Lockdown mode…
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Your work laptop can keep using Windows 10 until 2028 – but it’ll cost you
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 will live on beyond its end of support (EOS) date of October 14, 2025, but users will have to pay up to keep using the platform safely. Although Windows 10 22H2 has already been confirmed to be the final version of the operating system,…
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These malicious Android loan apps could leave millions of users seriously out of pocket
Cybersecurity researchers from ESET have discovered malicious loan apps stealing victim’s sensitive data and threaten them with ridicule unless they comply with absurd terms. The researchers named the collection of over a dozen apps SpyLoan, which are being advertised as financial services tools for personal loans, offering “quick and easy…
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Thousands of victims hit in attack on chocolate maker Hershey
The Hershey Company suffered a major data breach in which people’s payment data and personally identifiable information (PII) were both taken. The famous chocolate maker has filed a notification with the Maine Attorney General’s office, stating that in early September, some of its employees fell prey to a phishing attack. …
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US aerospace companies are facing dangerous new cyberattacks
Cybersecurity researchers from BlackBerry have uncovered a new cyber-espionage campaign targeting US organizations in the aerospace industry. The goal of the campaign seems to be data theft and cyber-espionage, although the threat actors’ endgame remains a mystery. The researchers claim the group is most likely brand new, so they named…
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Millions of Meta LLama AI platform users could be at risk from leaked Hugging Face APIs
Thousands of valid API tokens were left exposed on an open-source repository for AI projects, potentially granting hackers easy access to major business accounts, researchers have revealed. A report from Lasso Security claims the access could have been used for supply chain attacks, having run several substring searches on the…
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