A Dutch COVID-19 tracking app has leaked user data as it made its source code available for scrutiny, according to local reports. The Covid19 Alert application was one of seven shortlisted by the government to help the country emerge from

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) uncovered an IoT botnet operation that 100 times within one month. Analyzing further DCU team able to map 400,000 publicly available IPs and narrowed 90 suspicious IPs. The botnets continue to increase, as the threat

Global standards producer ETSI has announced the release of a key standard to confirm the integrity of digital material used in legal proceedings. ETSI TS 103 643 provides a set of tools for those wanting to demonstrate the legitimacy of

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has launched what it describes as a “pioneering” Suspicious Email Reporting Service, as users continue to be bombarded by COVID-19-themed phishing attacks. The scheme is designed to make it easier for members of the

Lookout researchers have uncovered a mobile surveillance campaign that has used more than 71 malicious Android apps to spy on Syrian users since the start of January 2018 by the Syrian nation-state hacking group called as Syrian Electronic Army (SEA).

British businesses are the target of a new phishing scam in which criminals impersonate an employee of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. Victims are sent a fake email purporting to be from “Jim Harra, First Permanent Secretary and Chief Executive

Over 267 million Facebook profiles are offered for sale on dark web sites and hacker forums, the dump is offered for £500 ($623) and doesn’t include passwords. Hackers are offering for sale over 267 million Facebook profiles for £500 ($623)

America’s National Football League has expressed cybersecurity concerns over this Thursday’s virtual draft. Traditionally, the top draft picks wait in a central location for their names to be called. But this year, due to social distancing measures introduced to slow

Threat Report Portugal Q1 2020: Phishing and malware by numbers. The Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d is a novel open sharing database with the ability to collect indicators from multiple sources, developed by Segurança-Informática. This feed is based on automatic searches and also

Thales has revealed that its technology will be used to secure Motorola’s new ‘eSIM-only’ smartphone, the razr. The device is the world’s first foldable smartphone to rely exclusively on embedded-SIM (eSIM) technology – a highly compact, programmable solution for secure

The UK’s privacy regulator has given a cautious green light to a contact tracing project Google and Apple are working on to enable governments to end current COVID-19 lockdowns. A new opinion issued by the information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, stated

Hackers have made off with at least $25m from two cryptocurrency firms after apparently targeting them with “reentrancy attacks” over the weekend. The raids affected decentralized lending platform Lendf.Me, which is supported by a decentralized finance (DeFi) network known as

The Tor project is non-profit organizations that focus o development related to privacy and anonymity. TOR is an important and popular tool. It is important because the Tor network offers the most effective way to surf the web anonymously, and

Notorious malware Trickbot has been linked to more COVID-19 phishing emails than any other, according to new data from Microsoft. The Microsoft Security Intelligence Twitter account made the claim on Friday. “Based on Office 365 ATP data, Trickbot is the

ZDNet reported that a hacker has leaked 23 million credentials from the Webkinz World online children’s game. Webkinz are stuffed animals that have a playable online counterpart, www.webkinz.com, in “Webkinz World.” Webkinz were originally released by the Canadian toy company Ganz on April 29, 2005.