Google announced what the industry have feared for the last year – it will kill the cookies. This means that the Chrome browser will no longer support third-party cookies. The transition will take two years.
The move will affect all web users at some extent. Still, the…
Google removed 1.700 infected apps from its Play Store. The decision came after the company discovered the apps were carrying the Joker (or Bread) malware. This malware is involved in lobbying customers with SMS billing fraud. All these apps were all removed, even before…
Authorities detected 10.000 attacks per minute from Iran in just two days, in Texas (USA). Governor Greg Abbott announced that these targeted the state agency networks.
According to a news report, during a a meeting of the Domestic Terrorism Task Force, Abbott pointed to a…
Rising cases of phishing and malware threats in organizations might propel the growth, although the global Cyber Security Market would witness a healthy CAGR (compound annual growth rate). The forecast was published in a report available on Million Insights. The attacks…
A Star Wars scam became a bait to spread malware. Thus, cybercriminals lure users into downloading malware. In exchange, the bad guys promise exclusive footage, content or full movie before its release. This happens now, when the new movie “The Rise of Skywalker” is…
A leak exposed the data of 267 million Facebook users. According to Comparitech’s representatives, this was the result of a scraping operation carried out by cybercriminals. “One possibility is that the data was stolen from Facebook’s developer API before the…
Greta Thunberg, the climate-change activist, became the lure in a massive global malware campaign.
Cybercriminals took advantage of the celebrity status of Greta Thunberg. Proofpoint Threat Insight unveiled that a global malicious email campaign delivering the Emotet malware…
Chrome’s latest update was paused by Google due to concerns that a bug is wiping users’ data.
The latest version of the most popular browser is Chrome 79. And more than 1 billion people use the web browser. The reported bug seems to affect only apps that use…
Facebook is expanding its fact-checking program on Instagram globally. This is to help combat the rising amount of misinformation.
The company started working in May with third-party fact-checkers in the US. If they consider the content as false, Instagram labels it as such.
Vpnmentor discovered over 1TB of customer data leaked from a huge online retailer. Researchers found the breach in the security of LigthInTheBox – a Chinese online retailer with a significant North American fan base.
Researchers managed to gain access to a…
