Signal Now Lets You Report and Block Spam Messages Signal has added an easy way for users to report and block spam straight from message request screens with a single mouse click. Message requests were added to Signal last year, in August 2020, to allow new users to reach out to Read more…
The Week in Ransomware – October 29th 2021 – Making arrests This week, international law enforcement operations went on the offensive, making arrests in numerous countries for ransomware-related activities. Today, Europol announced that twelve individuals were arrested today for their links to over 1,800 ransomware attacks in 71 countries. Also Read: What Read more…
Telegram Launches Advertising Program for Public Channels Telegram has launched a new advertising program dubbed Ad Platform and offering the opportunity to display sponsored messages on the instant-messaging platform. However, Telegram’s Ad Platform will do this with a twist since the way it displays ads is going to be a Read more…
South Korean Telco KT Suffers Nationwide Outage After Routing Error The second-largest telecommunications provider in South Korea, KT Corporation, has suffered a nationwide outage today, leaving all its 16.5 million customers without internet connectivity and telephony services for about 40 minutes. The outage affected schools and students who attended online Read more…
CISA: GPS Software Bug May Cause Unexpected Behavior This Sunday The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that GPS deices might experience issues over the weekend because of a timing bug impacting Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers running the GPS Daemon (GPSD) software. “The Network Time Protocol (NTP) has Read more…
New PurpleFox Botnet Variant Uses WebSockets For C2 Communication The PurpleFox botnet has refreshed its arsenal with new vulnerability exploits and dropped payloads, now also leveraging WebSockets for C2 bidirectional communication. Although it’s mainly based in China, the PurpleFox botnet still has a global presence through hundreds of compromised servers. Its activity Read more…
Zerodium Wants Zero-day Exploits For Windows VPN Clients In a short tweet today, exploit broker Zerodium said that it is looking to acquire zero-day exploits for vulnerabilities in three popular virtual private network (VPN) service providers on the market. VPN services allow you to hide your IP address when accessing Read more…
ACE Takes Down Electro TV Sat Pirate Streaming Service ACE (Alliance for Creativity) has forced Electro TV Sat offline following a crackdown operation in Morocco, where the pirate streaming platform was based. Electro TV Sat was one of the largest pirate platforms of this kind, featuring 6,000 channels and 200,000 movies Read more…
Credit Card PINs Can Be Guessed Even When Covering The ATM Pad Researchers have proven it’s possible to train a special-purpose deep-learning algorithm that can guess 4-digit card PINs 41% of the time, even if the victim is covering the pad with their hands. The attack requires the setting up of Read more…
Canon Sued For Disabling Scanner When Printers Run Out Of Ink Canon USA is being sued for not allowing owners of certain printers to use the scanner or faxing functions if they run out of ink. David Leacraft, a customer of Canon, filed the class action lawsuit on Tuesday alleging Read more…
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