Security News > 2023 > December
The Russia-linked influence operation called Doppelganger has targeted Ukrainian, U.S., and German audiences through a combination of inauthentic news sites and social media accounts. These...
A new "post-exploitation tampering technique" can be abused by malicious actors to visually deceive a target into believing that their Apple iPhone is running in Lockdown Mode when it's actually...
Russian state-backed hacking group Forest Blizzard has been using a known Microsoft Outlook vulnerability to target public and private entities in Poland, Polish Cyber Command has warned. The attacks were further analyzed by Polish Cyber Command, who confirmed that the threat actors have been gaining access to email accounts within Microsoft Exchange servers and modifying folder permissions within the victim's mailbox.
More than a dozen malicious loan apps, which are generically named SpyLoan, have been downloaded more than 12 million times this year from Google Play but the count is much larger since they are also available on third-party stores and suspicious websites. Since the start of the year, cybersecurity company ESET, a member of the App Defense Alliance dedicated to detecting and eradicating malware from Google Play, has discovered 18 SpyLoan apps.
Microsoft has confirmed an issue causing the HP Smart app to automatically install on Windows systems after all printers are renamed to HP LaserJet M101-M106. Customers have been reporting this issue since last week on the Microsoft community website and on online social networks. According to these reports, the HP Smart App is automatically installed on some Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices via the Microsoft Store, even though users don't own or use an HP printer or an HP computer.
The AlphV/BlackCat ransomware group said it plans to "Go direct" to the clients of a firm it allegedly attacked to extort them, claiming to have infiltrated the systems of accounting software vendor Tipalti. BlackCat claims it has had access to Tipalti's systems since September 8 and alleges that since then it has managed to exfiltrate more than 265GB of "Confidential" data belonging to the company, its employees, and its clients.
Mass surveillance fundamentally changed the nature of surveillance. Because all the data is saved, mass surveillance allows people to conduct surveillance backward in time, and without even knowing whom specifically you want to target.
Mass surveillance fundamentally changed the nature of surveillance. Because all the data is saved, mass surveillance allows people to conduct surveillance backward in time, and without even knowing whom specifically you want to target.
Microsoft Copilot has been called one of the most powerful productivity tools on the planet. Copilot is an AI assistant that lives inside each of your Microsoft 365 apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint,...
Digital identity wallets and, our favorite, facial age estimation, where the features of a user's face are analyzed to estimate the user's age. The idea of age verification was floated years before and has returned as part of the Online Safety Bill.