Security News > 2021
It happened in July 2020, when many prominent blue-badged Twitter accounts suddenly starting sending out scammy cryptocoin messages. "Feeling greatful , doubling all payments made to my Bitcoin address," said one message, urging people to pay out $1000 now, with a $2000 payback to follow later.
Email security biz Mimecast has dumped SolarWinds' network monitoring tool in favour of Cisco's Netflow product after falling victim to the infamous December supply chain attack. In an incident report detailing its experiences of the SolarWinds compromise, Mimecast said it had "Decommissioned SolarWinds Orion and replaced it with an alternative NetFlow monitoring system".
A new report, Personal Data, Privacy & Smartphones: The Cautious Consumer analyzes what smartphone owners think of the upcoming Apple Identifier for Advertisers opt-in requirement and the use of their data. Smartphone owners are not in agreement-partially due to the inexact wording and understanding-of how their data should be navigated by app developers and content providers.
COVID-19 dominated everyone's lives throughout 2020 but a new report from cybersecurity company Trend Micro found that the pandemic was also the main theme of nearly 16.5 million threats and attacks launched against its customers. The report found that most of the COVID-19-themed attacks came from the countries hit hardest by the pandemic, with nearly 40% of the threats coming from the United States.
Microsoft has added new features to Windows 10 Virtual Desktops that allow you to customize them to your liking. Windows 10 currently allows you to create virtual desktops that you can use to launch applications and files that will not appear on your main desktop or other virtual desktops.
NASA has fired up the avionics of the Artemis I core stage ahead of tomorrow's planned redo of the prematurely terminated hotfire test. Those boosters are missing a key ingredient: the SLS core stage, which continues to languish on the B-2 test stand at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
Microsoft is automatically installing the WebView2 runtime on Windows 10 machines to support upcoming versions of the Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Office applications. In February, Microsoft announced that future versions of Microsoft 365 would begin to utilize WebView2 control to embed web content directly in the native applications.
BlackBerry researchers see more double-extortion ransomware attacks, attackers demanding ransom from healthcare patients, and rising bitcoin prices driving the growth of ransomware.
According to researchers at Cofense, a campaign began circulating in March that capitalized on Americans' interest in the forthcoming $1,400 relief payments and other aid. In reality, the emails offer the Dridex banking trojan.
Kaspersky warns that with a stalkerware app, another person can spy on your activities and view your personal information.