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  • March 22, 2022

Anyone Can Now Generate Bogus Chrome Browser Windows Thanks To A New Phishing Toolkit

  • March 16, 2022

Since January, The Android Trojan Has Been Present On The Google Play Store

  • March 11, 2022

Several Security Flaws Identified In Major Software Package Managers

  • March 8, 2022

Microsoft Has Patched A Severe Azure Problem That Exposed Client Information

  • March 6, 2022

Microsoft Has Halted All New Sales In Russia

  • March 4, 2022

Thousands Of GitLab Instances Are Affected By A New Security Flaw

  • March 4, 2022

Thousands Of People Have Downloaded This Data-Stealing Android App

  • March 1, 2022

CISA And The FBI Have Issued Warnings About The Possibility Of Data Wiping Attacks

  • February 26, 2022

A Cyber Attack On Nvidia Is Said To Have ‘Totally Compromised’ The Company

  • February 26, 2022

Malware That Hijacks Social Media Is Spreading Via Microsoft Store Games

  • February 23, 2022

From March, Google Chat Will Completely Replace Traditional Hangouts For Workspace Users

  • February 21, 2022

WordPress Backup Plugin With Over 3 Million Sites Discovered To Have A Critical Flaw

  • February 18, 2022

Cybercriminals Use Microsoft Teams Chat Rooms To Spread Malware

  • February 17, 2022

Pixelated Text From Redacted Documents Can Be Restored With The Tool Called “Unredacter”

  • February 17, 2022

Mozilla Warns That The ‘100’ User Agents In Chrome And Firefox May Crash Websites

  • February 16, 2022

Facebook Clears Decade-Old Privacy Violation Case For $90 Million

  • February 15, 2022

Sextortion Emails Demand $2,732 In Bitcoin From A New MyloBot Variant

  • February 15, 2022

A New Google Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability Is Being Actively Exploited

  • February 12, 2022

CISA Mandates That Federal Entities Upgrade Their IPhones By February 25th

  • February 10, 2022

RedLine Virus Is Infected Through Phony Windows 11 Upgrade Packages

  • February 9, 2022

Microsoft Patch Tuesday For February 2022 Addresses 48 Bugs And One Zero-Day Vulnerability

  • February 8, 2022

Mozilla Addresses An Issue In Firefox That Allows You To Gain Administrative Access On Windows

  • February 5, 2022

CISA Has Ordered Federal Entities To Patch A Windows Flaw That Is Being Actively Exploited

  • February 5, 2022

Mac Devices Are Infected With A Newer Version Of The UpdateAgent Malware

  • February 2, 2022

Fake Job Postings Are Being Used To Extort Money And Personal Information, According To The FBI

  • January 30, 2022

Microsoft: Windows Requires About 8 Hours Of Online Time In Order To Update Successfully

  • January 30, 2022

Zero-Day Flaws For Microsoft Outlook RCE Are Now On The Market For $400,000

  • January 26, 2022

A 12-Year-Old Polkit Vulnerability Enables Unauthorized Linux Users To Get Admin Rights

  • January 23, 2022

Malicious QR Codes Are Being Exploited To Steal Your Money

  • January 22, 2022

Cybercriminals From Molerats Are Using Public Cloud Services To Hide New Snooping Attacks

  • January 22, 2022

SonicWall Provides A Temporary Workaround For Firewalls That Are Stuck In A Reboot Loop

  • January 20, 2022

A Bug In A WordPress Plugin Leaves 20,000 Websites At Risk Of Phishing Attacks

  • January 20, 2022

Hackers Stole Nearly $30 Million From Crypto.Com

  • January 18, 2022

The App For The 2022 Winter Olympics In Beijing Is Filled With Privacy Concerns

  • January 16, 2022

A Flaw In Microsoft Defender Allows Hackers To Avoid Malware Detection

  • January 15, 2022

Beware, The Microsoft Edge Update Might Contain A Ransomware

  • January 12, 2022

L2TP VPN Services Are Affected By The New Windows KB5009543 And KB5009566 Patches

  • January 10, 2022

Cybercriminals Are Shipping Out Ransomware-Infected USB Devices

  • January 10, 2022

The Frustrated Developer Takes Down Thousands Of Open-Source Projects

  • January 10, 2022

Flash Player Has Been Discontinued For Almost A Year, So What Exactly Are You Updating?

  • January 07, 2022

Scams Using Google Voice Authentication Are In The Wild

  • January 07, 2022

The Y2K22 Bug Has Affected Email Security And Firewall Software

  • January 06, 2022

France Fines Facebook And Google A Total Of $210 Million

  • January 06, 2022

The Comments Feature Of Google Docs Has Been Used For Spear-Phishing Attacks

  • January 05, 2022

Chrome Users Should Be Extremely Cautious

  • January 05, 2022

The “DoorLock” Denial-Of-Service Issue In Apple’s HomeKit Makes IOS Vulnerable

  • January 05, 2022

Cybercriminals Attacking Instagram Users This Time

  • January 04, 2022

Impresa, A Portuguese Media Group, Has Been Devastated By A Ransomware Attack

  • January 04, 2022

Broward Health Reports A 1.3 Million People Data Breach

  • January 01, 2022

Netgear's Nighthawk Router Has Vulnerabilities That Aren't Addressed

  • January 01, 2022

PulseTV Has Reported That 200,000 Credit Cards Information Might Be Stolen

  • December 31, 2021

QR Codes Are Being Used By Cybercriminals In A Variety Of Ways

  • December 31, 2021

Almost Half A Million Tesla Vehicles Are Being Recalled Due To Safety Concerns

  • December 30, 2021

A Startlingly Unsafe Assignment Is Issued By Amazon Alexa To A 10-Year-Old

  • December 29, 2021

“ForcedEntry” The NSO Groups’s Most Technically Sophisticated Exploit

  • December 29, 2021

The Fifth Security Flaw Has Been Uncovered In Log4j

  • December 27, 2021

Torrent Version Of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” Contains Crypto-Mining Malware

  • December 26, 2021

Russia Fines Google Roughly $100 Million For Failing To Remove Banned Materials

  • December 25, 2021

Drivers May Now Turn Their Teslas Into Megaphones Thanks To A New Tesla Update

  • December 24, 2021

Apple Has Fixed A Major MacOS Issue

  • December 22, 2021

Vulnerability in Active Directory may allow attackers to gain control of Windows Domain Controllers

  • December 21, 2021

Google Drive may begin locking your data in the near future

  • December 20, 2021

A New Joker Malware App Has Been Downloaded By Over 500,000 Android Users From The Google Play Store

  • December 18, 2021

“Error conflation” flaws are now fixed in OpenSSL

  • December 16, 2021

Cybercriminals rush to exploit the second flaw, as a third Log4j flaw arises

  • December 15, 2021

Microsoft released an update to address a zero-day exploit used to propagate Emotet malware

  • December 14, 2021

Tesla is being sued by six more women for sexual harassment

  • December 14, 2021

Chrome should be updated to patch a new zero-day vulnerability that has been discovered recently

  • December 13, 2021

Attacks on credit cards have been reported in the run-up to the holiday shopping season

  • December 12, 2021

A serious Log4J flaw puts much of the internet at risk

  • December 10, 2021

1.6 Million WordPress Sites Have Been Attacked

  • December 10, 2021

SonicWall strongly advises clients to patch critical SMA 100 flaws ASAP

  • November 30, 2021

Huawei’s AppGallery running malware apps

  • November 30, 2021

banking Trojan infections have been discovered on Google Play

  • November 25, 2021

Apple has filed a lawsuit against NSO

  • November 21, 2021

New Linux malware preys on e-commerce websites in the run-up to Black Friday

  • November 20, 2021

Apple has issued iOS 15.1.1, which includes bug patches for the iPhone 12 and 13 models

  • November 19, 2021

Amazon may stop accepting Visa credit cards in the United States

  • November 19, 2021

A severe security issue was discovered in six million Sky routers

  • November 19, 2021

Any use of a phone while driving will be prohibited in the United Kingdom

  • November 17, 2021

“SharkBot,” an Android Malware, is hijacking banking and cryptocurrency credentials

  • November 15, 2021

Fake cybersecurity alerts were sent out from the hacked FBI’s email server

  • November 13, 2021

Some Pixel 6 phones are dialing random numbers in the background

  • November 13, 2021

Hackers were able to exploit macOS zero-day to compromise Hong Kong Users

  • November 11, 2021

The malware called PhoneSpy invades the privacy of Android users

  • November 10, 2021

YouTube will take a stab at hiding video dislike counts from certain clients

  • November 10, 2021

After DIY iPhone 13 screen replacements, Apple decides not to break Face ID

  • November 10, 2021

The fingerprint scanner on your Google Pixel 6 can be broken if you completely discharge it

  • November 09, 2021

A hacker has targeted Robinhood, stealing the email addresses of 5 million users

  • November 09, 2021

Microsoft has announced that OneDrive upgrades for Windows 7 and 8 will be discontinued in March

  • November 08, 2021

Google reveals a large-scale phishing campaign aimed at YouTubers

  • November 07, 2021

Users of Google Chrome are being urged to remove the browser immediately

  • November 07, 2021

Millions of iPhone users are getting a costly shock from Apple