In the wake of the wide-scale COVID-19 vaccination that is in active progression across India, a new development in the form of fake CoWIN…
Cyberthreats
Cybersecurity
Twitter ‘Tip Jar’ Is Exciting But Exposes Data, Security Concerns raised
Twitter’s newest feature ‘Tip Jar’ has been recently launched on the social media platform that allows users to deliver monetary tips to other Twitter…
cyberattack
DarkSide Ransomware Behind Colonial Pipeline Attack; FBI Confirms
Major US oil pipeline organization, Colonial Pipeline had recently fallen victim to a massive ransomware attack by Darkside ransomware that forced them to shut…
Cybersecurity
Foxit Reader Patched for Critical RCE Bug Hackable By Malicious PDFs
In the latest vulnerability developments, Foxit has released security fixes for a Remote Code Execution(RCE) bug in its PDF reader. Tracked as CVE-2021-21822, it…
Cybersecurity
New WhatsApp Privacy Policy, No User Accounts Will Be Deleted
WhatsApp has officially announced on May 7 that the WhatsApp Privacy Policy will not be followed by the May 15 deadline and will be…
Android
Qualcomm MSM flaw Could Give Access To Phone Private Data
In the latest security report published by Check Point, a security flaw plaguing the Qualcomm mobile station modem (MSM) chips, including the ones deployed…
AMD
AMD and Intel Devices Susceptible To New Spectre vulnerability Variants
Security experts at the University of Virginia and the University of California San Diego. have recently detected three new variants of Spectre attacks impacting…
banking trojan
Dridex trojan back in action
Dridex trojan is functional and dynamic once more; it has gotten back to phishing assaults disguising QuickBooks receipts. This continuous phishing effort began on…
Cisco
Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Deployed Multiple High-Severity Patches
Cisco Firepower Threat Defense software was recently patched up for several vulnerabilities which included high-severity security flaws like DoS attacks and arbitrary code execution. …
Chrome
Chrome 90 Patched For Critical V8 Bug and other vulnerabilities
Google has recently delivered the Chrome 90 stable channel release (90.0.4430.93) for Windows, Mac, and Linux, to address a V8 vulnerability along with eight…