Tag: security
Dangerous new malware can crack encrypted USB drives
Cybersecurity researchers from Kaspersky have uncovered a sophisticated new piece of malware called TetrisPhantom seen compromising secure USB drives to steal sensitive information from government endpoints in the Asia-Pacific region. Secure USB drives have an encrypted partition whose files can only be accessed with a password, and through specialized software,…
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Brave browser under fire for installing its VPN without user permission
Once thought of as a reliable privacy-first web browser, new revelations shed a new light on Brave‘s approach to transparency. The browser has been automatically installing its two VPN services on Windows devices without users’ consent since 2022, Ghacks.net reported. The firm responded to this by claiming these additional tools…
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Bad news – these fake LinkedIn job offers are just pushing malware, so don’t get your hopes up
Hackers are targeting social media managers in the US, the UK, and India with info-stealing malware. The goal of the campaign is to gain access to their Facebook business accounts, through which they can later launch malicious advertising campaigns on the social media platform. The campaign was spotted by cybersecurity…
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Ransomware is threatening more businesses than ever before
As a threat, ransomware is expanding and diversifying, making defending against it a much harder, tedious task, new research has claimed. Elastic’s second Global Threat Report analyzed more than a billion data points collected over the last 12 months to get a better overview of the ransomware threat landscape, and…
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Email security threats are more dangerous than ever – here’s what you need to know
The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as Chat-GPT and the increasing popularity of cloud services have made spam and phishing emails infinitely more dangerous, new research has claimed. A new report from the VIPRE Security Group found that as consumers started using the cloud more, so did…
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Watch out – that QR code could just be a phishing scam
The latest evolution of phishing emails includes QR codes as hackers look to maximize the potential of their campaigns. A new report from cybersecurity researchers SecurityHQ claims to have observed a “significant increase” of such “quishing” emails in these past couple of months. The premise is simple – the majority…
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