Categories: News Tags: chrome Tags: browser Tags: update Tags: fake Tags: malware Tags: monero Tags: miner Tags: cryptocurrency Tags: rogue Tags: hacked Tags: compromised Tags: site Tags: website We take a look at a slew of hacked websites pushing fake Chrome updates which are Monero miner malware in disguise. |
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Read moreCategories: News Tags: Lock and Code S04E09 Tags: Bennett Cyphers Tags: Apple vulnerability Tags: phone charging station Tags: FBI Tags: Yum! Brands Tags: KFC Tags: Pizza Hut Tags: Patch Tuesday Tags: sextortion Tags: malvertising Tags: Weebly Tags: AI Tags: virtual kidnapping Tags: ransomware review Tags: ransomware in the UK Tags: ransomware in France The most interesting security related news from the week of April 10 – 16. |
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Read moreCategories: News Tags: WhatsApp Tags: security features Tags: Account Protect Tags: Device Verification Tags: Key Transparency Tags: Auditable Key Directory WhatsApp has announced several new security features, including one that makes it a lot easier for you to verify the contact you are communicating with. |
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Read moreCategories: Business Prevent port scanning attacks with Malwarebytes for Business. |
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Read moreCategories: News Tags: kidnap Tags: scam Tags: virtual Tags: AI Tags: voice Tags: fake Tags: fraud Tags: hoax Tags: kidnapping We take a look at claims that AI is now being used for a notorious form of kidnapping hoax. |
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Read moreCategories: Threat Intelligence Tags: malvertising Tags: weebly Tags: google Tags: ads Tags: seniors Tags: recipe Tags: tech support Tags: scam Scammers are buying ads on for the most common Google searches made by seniors and defrauding them with tech support scams. |
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Read moreCategories: Ransomware Categories: Threat Intelligence Cl0p was the most used ransomware in March 2023, dethroning the usual frontrunner LockBit, after breaching over 104 organizations with a zero-day vulnerability. |
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Read moreCategories: Ransomware Categories: Threat Intelligence In the last 12 months France was one of the most attacked countries in the world, and a favourite target of LockBit, the world’s most dangerous ransomware. |
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Read moreCategories: News Tags: FBI Tags: extortion Tags: sextortion Tags: crime Tags: criminal Tags: nude Tags: nudes Tags: photographs Tags: images Tags: video Tags: photo Tags: scam Tags: payment Tags: profit Tags: assistance Tags: help We take a look at an FBI warning regarding for-profit entities making money from people targeted by sextortion attacks. |
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Read moreCategories: News Tags: Google Pay Tags: Google Pay bug Tags: free money All good things must end, they say, including generous offers of rewards caused by a short-lived glitch in Google Pay. |
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