Android Users can Now Disable 2G to Block Stingray Attacks Google has finally rolled out an option on Android allowing users to disable 2G connections, which come with a host of privacy and security problems exploited by cell-site simulators. The addition of the option was spotted by EFF (Electronic Frontier Read more…
FCC Wants New data Breach Reporting Rules for Telecom Carriers The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed more rigorous data breach reporting requirements for telecom carriers in response to breaches that recently hit the telecommunications industry. On Wednesday, Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel shared the proposal in the form of a Notice of Proposed Read more…
BlueNoroff Hackers Steal Crypto Using Fake MetaMask Extension The North Korean threat actor group known as ‘BlueNoroff’ has been spotted targeting cryptocurrency startups with malicious documents and fake MetaMask browser extensions. The motive of this group is purely financial, but its sophistication in carrying out objectives has previously led researchers to Read more…
AWS Fixes Security Flaws that Exposed AWS Customer Data Amazon Web Services (AWS) has addressed an AWS Glue security issue that allowed attackers to access and alter data linked to other AWS customer accounts. AWS Glue is a serverless cloud data integration service that helps discover, prepare, and combine data for Read more…
Microsoft Pulls New Windows Server Updates Due to Critical Bugs Microsoft has pulled the January Windows Server cumulative updates after critical bugs caused domain controllers to reboot, Hyper-V to not work, and ReFS volume systems to become unavailable. Tuesday, Microsoft released the January 2022 Patch Tuesday updates for Windows Server that includes Read more…
Microsoft Defender Weakness lets Hackers Bypass Malware Detection Threat actors can take advantage of a weakness that affects Microsoft Defender antivirus on Windows to learn locations excluded from scanning and plant malware there. The issue has persisted for at least eight years, according to some users, and affects Windows 10 Read more…
Windows ‘RemotePotato0’ Zero-day Gets an Unofficial Patch A privilege escalation vulnerability impacting all Windows versions that can let threat actors gain domain admin privileges through an NTLM relay attack has received unofficial patches after Microsoft tagged it as “won’t fix.” The vulnerability, dubbed RemotePotato0 Sentinel LABS researcher Antonio Cocomazzi and independent researcher Read more…
Carding Site UniCC Retires After Generating $358 million in Sales UniCC, the largest carding site operating on the dark web at the moment, has announced its retirement, after reportedly generating $358 million in sales. Along with UniCC, its “brother” LuxSocks is pulling the plug, leaving a significant void in the Read more…
Ukranian Police Arrests Ransomware Gang that Hit over 50 Firms Ukrainian police officers have arrested a ransomware affiliate group responsible for attacking at least 50 companies in the U.S. and Europe. It is estimated that the total losses resulting from the attacks is in excess of one million U.S. dollars. Read more…
Apple Fixes DoorLock Bug that can Disable iPhones and iPads Apple has released security updates to address a persistent denial of service (DoS) dubbed doorLock that would altogether disable iPhones and iPads running HomeKit on iOS 14.7 and later. HomeKit is an Apple protocol and framework that allow iOS and iPadOS Read more…
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