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Ethiopia, Uganda, Angola, Ghana, Nigeria top African countries targeted by threats

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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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New LightSpy Spyware Version Targets iPhones with Increased Surveillance Tactics

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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 Reveals macOS Vulnerability that Bypasses Privacy Controls in Safari Browser

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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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INTERPOL Arrests 8 in Major Phishing and Romance Fraud Crackdown in West Africa

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INTERPOL has announced the arrest of eight individuals in Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria as part of a crackdown on phishing scams and romance cyber fraud. Dubbed Operation Contender 2.0, the initiative is designed to tackle cyber-enabled crimes in West Africa, the agency said. One such threat involved a large-scale phishing scam targeting Swiss citizens that resulted in

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Ticketmaster Data Breach May Affect More Than 500 Million Customers. What to Know

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Ticketmaster, a subsidiary of Live Nation, suffered a data breach, which may impact millions of customers. Live Nation confirmed in a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday that its subsidiary Ticketmaster has suffered a data breach. The filing stated that on May 20, the company noticed “unauthorized activity” within a database

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The Post Millennial hack leaked data impacting 26 million people

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Have I Been Pwned has added the information for 26,818,266 people whose data was leaked in a recent hack of The Post Millennial conservative news website. The Post Millennial is a conservative Canadian online news magazine belonging to the Human Events Media Group, which also operates the American ‘Human Events’ news platform. Earlier this month, both news platforms were hacked,

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Google Rolls Out New Chrome Browser Update to Patch Yet Another Zero-Day Vulnerability

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Search giant Google on Friday released an out-of-band security update to fix a new actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser. The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-4262, concerns a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript engine. Clement Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been credited with reporting the issue on November

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Worok hackers hide new malware in PNGs using steganography

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A threat group tracked as ‘Worok’ hides malware within PNG images to infect victims’ machines with information-stealing malware without raising alarms. This has been confirmed by researchers at Avast, who built upon the findings of ESET, the first to spot and report on Worok’s activity in early September 2022. ESET warned that Worok targeted high-profile victims,

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FBI warns about ongoing Google Voice authentication scams

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says Americans who share their phone number online are being targeted by Google Voice authentication scams. As the federal law enforcement agency explains, the fraudsters are targeting those who have posted their phone number as a form of contact when trying to sell various items on online marketplaces or social

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