Facebook ads push Android adware with 7 million installs on Google Play
Several adware apps promoted aggressively on Facebook as system cleaners and optimizers for Android devices are counting millions of installations on Google Play store. [...]
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Several adware apps promoted aggressively on Facebook as system cleaners and optimizers for Android devices are counting millions of installations on Google Play store. [...]
Several adware apps promoted aggressively on Facebook as system cleaners and optimizers for Android devices are counting millions of installations on Google Play store. [...]
A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Northern District of California against Meta (Facebook), the UCSF Medical Center, and the Dignity Health Medical Foundation, alleging that the organizations are unlawfully collecting sensitive healthcare data about patients for targeted advertising. [...]
A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Northern District of California against Meta (Facebook), the UCSF Medical Center, and the Dignity Health Medical Foundation, alleging that the organizations are unlawfully collecting sensitive healthcare data about patients for targeted advertising. [...]
CISA has added a critical Confluence vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-26138 to its list of bugs abused in the wild, a flaw that can provide remote attackers with hardcoded credentials following successful exploitation. [...]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) warned Americans of an increasing wave of SMS (Short Message Service) phishing attacks attempting to steal their personal information and money. [...]
Security analysts have observed an affiliate of the LockBit 3.0 ransomware operation abusing a Windows Defender command line tool to decrypt and load Cobalt Strike beacons on the target systems. [...]
Security analysts have observed an affiliate of the LockBit 3.0 ransomware operation abusing a Windows Defender command line tool to decrypt and load Cobalt Strike beacons on the target systems. [...]
Microsoft is testing a new multi-app kiosk mode lockdown feature for IT admins in the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview build released to the Dev Channel. [...]
Microsoft has discovered that an access broker it tracks as DEV-0206 uses the Raspberry Robin Windows worm to deploy a malware downloader on networks where it also found evidence of malicious activity matching Evil Corp tactics. [...]
Ransomware statistics from the second quarter of the year show that the ransoms paid to extortionists have dropped in value, a trend that continues since the last quarter of 2021. [...]
Microsoft has released the first preview build of Windows 10, version 22H2, to Windows Insiders for enterprise testing before the general release later this year. [...]
Threat actors are generating revenue by using adware bundles, malware, or even hacking into Microsoft SQL servers, to convert devices into proxies that are rented through online proxy services. [...]
Threat actors have been adopting a less common method to generate revenue and are leveraging payloads to install proxyware services on target systems. [...]
Microsoft is investigating an ongoing incident impacting administrators in North America who report seeing blank pages and 404 errors when trying to access the Microsoft 365 admin center. [...]
The LibreOffice suite has been updated to address several security vulnerabilities related to the execution of macros and the protection of passwords for web connections. [...]
A North Korean-backed threat group tracked as Kimsuky is stealing emails from Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge users browsing their webmail accounts using a malicious browser extension. [...]
The cybersecurity company and cloud service provider Akamai reports having mitigated the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack ever to have been recorded in Europe. [...]
Multiple npm packages are being used in an ongoing malicious campaign dubbed LofyLife to infect Discord users with malware that steals their payment card information. [...]
Hackers who normally distributed malware via phishing attachments with malicious macros gradually changed tactics after Microsoft Office began blocking them by default, switching to new file types such as ISO, RAR, and Windows Shortcut (LNK) attachments. [...]