Tag: security
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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9 Best Password Managers (2023): Features, Pricing, and Tips
Keep your logins locked down with our favorite password management apps for PC, Mac, Android, iPhone, and web browsers. Source
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The US government has suffered a whole load of data breaches we never even knew about
In the decade between 2014 and November 2023, the United States government and its various entities and endpoints suffered exactly 1,283 data breaches. In those breaches, 201,184,801 records were affected, costing the government – and thus the average taxpayer – more than $30 billion, new research has claimed. The report…
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