Two US senators have called for an urgent investigation into whether foreign-owned Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) represent a risk to national security. Ron Wyden and Marco Rubio signed a joint letter to the director of the Department of Homeland Security‘s

Love is in the air this week, but cyber-criminals are reportedly targeting user accounts on dating sites like OkCupid ahead of Valentine’s Day. Multiple news outlets have reported that OkCupid users say their accounts have been hacked, which the company

Security researcher Lukas Stefanko from ESET discovered the first Android cryptocurrency clipboard hijacker impersonating MetaMask on the official Google Play store. The rogue MetaMask app is a Clipboard Hikacker that monitors a device’s clipboard for Bitcoin and Ethereum addresses and

Driverless vehicles and connected cars are creating a buzz in the marketplace, but as the industry races to produce the connected car of the future, it is letting cybersecurity fall to the wayside, according to new research from Synopsys. In

Android users could be remotely hacked simply by viewing a legitimate-looking PNG image, Google has warned in its latest security update. The Android Security Bulletin for February lists 42 vulnerabilities in the Google mobile operating system, 11 of which are

Ransomware accounted for one tenth of 1% of all malicious email content in Q4, according to a new threat report from Proofpoint. It’s Q4 threat report found that banking trojans accounted for 56% of all malicious payloads in email in

Google has open sourced ClusterFuzz, its fuzzing infrastructure it has developed to find memory corruption vulnerabilities in Chrome. Google has open sourced its fuzzing infrastructure ClusterFuzz that the tech giant developed to find memory corruption bugs in the Chrome browser.

Google announced Adiantum, a new encryption method devised to protect Android devices without cryptographic acceleration. Google announced Adiantum, a new encryption method devised to protect Android devices without cryptographic acceleration. “Adiantum is an innovation in cryptography designed to make storage

Security of Industrial system is a top priority, experts found multiple serious flaws in a gateway made by Kunbus that could allow to completely control a device Nicolas Merle from industrial cybersecurity firm Applied Risk discovered several flaws in a

Cayosin Botnet: a deeper look at this threat supported by the psychological profile of the “youngsters-wannabe-hackers” Rolex boasters Money, botnet as service business and coding on the dark side of the life: “At this point of my life… if it

A newly discovered malware campaign leverages steganography to hide GandCrab ransomware in an apparently innocent Mario image. Security experts at Bromium have discovered a malware campaign using steganography to hide the GandCrab ransomware in a Mario graphic package. According to

News has surfaced of an attempted cyber-attack on the Australian government. As reported by the BBC, authorities in Australia are said to be investigating an effort that was made to hack into its parliament computer network. It is believed that

A new study from Comparitech has named Algeria the ‘least cyber-secure’ nation in the world, whilst Japan has been ranked the ‘most cyber-secure.’ The information, tools and comparisons provider studied 60 countries to gauge their ability to meet seven key

The Kaspersky Lab DDoS Q4 Report covering statistics of the last quarter and the whole of 2018 highlights a 13% decline in the overall number of DDoS attacks when compared with the statistics from the previous year. However, the duration

Crooks leverage Google Translate service as camouflage on mobile browsers in a phishing campaign aimed at stealing Google account and Facebook credentials. The security expert Larry Cashdollar, a member of Akamai’s Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT), discovered that cybercriminals are

Researchers have warned users of a new phishing technique which uses Google Translate to add authenticity to scams. Akamai security researcher Larry Cashdollar explained in a blog post that he was targeted by this tactic early in the new year,