LockBit ransomware on Mac: Should we worry?

Categories: News

Categories: Ransomware

Tags: LockBit

Tags: ransomware

Tags: Patrick Wardle

Tags: macOS ransomware

Tags: first Mac ransomware

Tags: Azim Khodjibaev

Tags: BleepingComputer

Tags: Mark Stockley

With plans to offer more ransomware, LockBit has just created a variant for macOS. But, as experts have pointed out, it’s hardly ready for anything.

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Swatting-as-a-Service is a growing and complicated problem to solve

Categories: News

Tags: swatting

Tags: caller ID spoofing

Tags: telegram

Tags: cryptocurrency

Tags: AI generated voice

Using a false call to deploy emergency services to the address of a victim or a school has been turned into Swatting-as-a-Service

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Avoid this “lost injured dog” Facebook hoax

Categories: News

Tags: facebook

Tags: scam

Tags: spam

Tags: hoax

Tags: dog

Tags: injured

Tags: lost

Tags: vet

Tags: missing

We take a look at a Facebook hoax which uses supposedly injured dogs as the lure for a bait and switch scam.

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Spring cleaning tips for your browser

Categories: News

Tags: Some tips that can enhance your browser’s speed

Tags: so you have more time to enjoy the outdoors

Some tips that can enhance your browser’s speed, so you have more time to enjoy the outdoors.

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Payment giant’s point-of-sale outage caused by ALPHV ransomware

Categories: News

Categories: Ransomware

Tags: NCR

Tags: Aloha

Tags: ALPHV

Tags: BalckCat

Tags: ransomware

An issue with the NCR Aloha point-of-sale system turned out to be a ransomware attack claimed by the ALPHV group

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Beware: Fake IRS tax email wants your Microsoft account

Categories: News

Categories: Scams

Tags: IRS tax scam

Tags: tax scam

Tags: IRS

Tags: Jerome Segura

Tags: Telegram bot

Tags: Emotet

Expect more IRS tax-related shenanigans from fraudsters, who are now going for corporate accounts, after some states received deadline extensions.

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Update Chrome now! Google patches actively exploited flaw

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Categories: News

Tags: Google

Tags: Chrome zero-day

Tags: CVE-2023-2033

Tags: V8 flaw

Tags: V8

Google has released an updated version of Chrome to address a zero-day flaw that is being exploited in the wild.

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