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Cybersecurity Agencies Warn of Iranian Hackers Targeting Crucial US Sectors
Hackers linked to the Iranian government have been targeting a “broad range of victims” in the United States by using data exfiltration, extortion, and ransomware, according to an advisory issued on Nov. 17 by American, British, a...
GoDaddy Data Breach Exposes Over 1M WordPress Users' Data
GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain registrar, was the victim of a cyberattack that resulted in the unauthorized access of data belonging to 1.2 million active and inactive WordPress users.
In a filing with the U.S. Securities...
Apple Sues NSO Group for Pegasus Spyware Attacks on iPhones
Apple is joining WhatsApp, and its parent company Meta (formerly known as Facebook), in a lawsuit against NSO Group, which is the developer of the Pegasus spyware. Apple said in a statement that it’s seeking a permanent injunction...
Four Banking Trojan Campaigns Targeted Over 300,000 Android Devices in 2021
Hackers circumvented the Google Play Store to distribute four separate Android banking Trojans between August and November, cybersecurity firm ThreatFabric reported. The malware infected more than 300,000 Android devices through d...
Kronos Ransomware Hack to Have Impact on Employers
Ultimate Kronos Group (Kronos), one of the largest human resources companies, said in a Dec. 15 update that it experienced a ransomware attack that will potentially keep Kronos’s systems offline for weeks.
The attack on Kronos’...
Meta: Expanding Bug Bounty Program
Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook, announced in a Dec. 15 blog post that it’s expanding its bug bounty program.
With this expansion, the tech company will start rewarding valid reports of data scraping bugs across its...
Panasonic Confirms Data Breach by Hackers
Tech company Panasonic confirmed that it suffered a data breach and hackers gained access to its internal network.
Panasonic said that its network was “illegally accessed by a third party” on Nov. 11 and that “some data on a fi...
Twitter Bans Sharing Videos and Photos of Private Individuals Without Their Consent
Twitter has announced an expansion to its private information policy regarding private media, which bans the sharing of photos and videos of private individuals without their consent.
The tech giant’s privacy policy had already...
Pegasus Spyware Reportedly Hacked iPhones of US Officials
Apple has reportedly notified several US Embassy and State Department employees and Ugandan politicians that their iPhones may have been targeted by an unknown threat actor using state-sponsored Pegasus spyware from Israeli tech c...
WhatsApp Adds Default Disappearing Message Feature for New Chats
WhatsApp announced on Dec. 6 that it expanded its privacy control features with the addition of default disappearing messages for all new chats.
"When enabled, all new one-on-one chats you or another person start will be set to...