Email has been both a blessing and a curse for billions of users. Unfortunately, it’s definitely been a blessing for hackers and a curse for consumers who receive their phishing attacks, malware attachments and more. Although highly-targeted “spear” phishing attacks are increasingly seen as the way to go by sophisticated threat actors, there’s no doubting […]
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Check Point Software Technologies released its Global Threat Index for December 2024, emphasising the growing sophistication of cybercriminals. For Africa, December was hardly a season to be jolly with eight of the continent’s countries listed among the top 20 most attacked. Ethiopia retained its top spot as the most attacked country with a 98.2% Normalised
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The delivery service Grubhub said a hacker stole personal data and partial payment card information from customers through a third-party contractor. In a statement published on Monday evening, the company said it recently identified a security incident that “originated with an account belonging to a third-party service provider that provided support services to Grubhub.” The
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Chinese state-sponsored hackers breached the U.S. Treasury Department’s computer security guardrails this month and stole documents in what Treasury called a “major incident,” according to a letter to lawmakers that Treasury officials provided to Reuters on Monday. The hackers compromised third-party cybersecurity service provider BeyondTrust and were able to access unclassified documents, the
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Are your USB cables sending your data to hackers? We expect USB-C cables to perform a specific task: transferring either data or files between devices. We give little more thought to the matter, but malicious USB-C cables can do much more than what we expect. These cables hide malicious hardware that can intercept data, eavesdrop
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Over 1 million registered domains could be vulnerable to a cyberattack method known as “Sitting Ducks,” as recently unveiled in a new report from Infoblox Threat Intel. This relatively unknown attack vector allows malicious actors to hijack legitimate domains by exploiting misconfigurations in DNS settings. The Sitting Ducks attack, which has been active since 2018,
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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an improved version of an Apple iOS spyware called LightSpy that not only expands on its functionality, but also incorporates destructive capabilities to prevent the compromised device from booting up. “While the iOS implant delivery method closely mirrors that of the macOS version, the post-exploitation and privilege escalation stages differ significantly
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Microsoft has disclosed details about a now-patched security flaw in Apple’s Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) framework in macOS that has likely come under exploitation to get around a user’s privacy preferences and access data. The shortcoming, codenamed HM Surf by the tech giant, is tracked as CVE-2024-44133 (CVSS score: 5.5). It was addressed by Apple as
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