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FBI Warns About Corporate Accounts Credentials Stealing Via Vishing Attacks

The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) has released a warning notification about the actively ongoing vishing attacks that aim to gain corporate account login credentials for privilege escalation from employees and accessing their network. A vishing attack is a social engineering attack in which the victim is tried to trick in and give in confidential…
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A Report Reveals Worldwide Exposure Of Total 22 Billion Records In All Data Breaches of 2020

The latest report released on Friday reveals that more than 22 billion records have been compromised all around the globe in a total of 730 data breaches that were disclosed in 2020. These data breaches took place from January and through October in 2020. Out of the 730 data breaches, according to Tenable’s Security Response…
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Going Rogue – A Different Level Of Malware Development Package

Smartphones, especially Android have remained an appealing subject for threat actors and cybercriminals for a very long period of time. There are more than 3.5 billion active users of smartphones, out of which 3 billion smartphones are Android-based. This massive worldwide use of smartphones is what makes cybercriminals target them for malicious activities. However, the…
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A Country’s Top Level Expired Domain Saved From Hackers By A Cybersecurity Researcher

In October 2020, a significant domain name of a country’s internet space started to expire, however, it was an infamous, mostly a secret, domain. Maybe, some responsible person must have forgotten to pay the price for continuing the use of the domain name. However, the domains that are expired do not vanish away at a…
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100,000 Private Records Of The U.N. Accessed In A Data Breach By Ethical Hackers

Cyber Security researchers have successfully and effectively hacked the United Nations, reaching out to client credentials and personally identifiable information (PII) including in excess of 100,000 private representative and task records prior to telling the U.N. about the issue through the association’s vulnerability divulgence program. Ethical hackers from the exploration bunch Sakura Samurai utilized a…
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Your Phone Could Be Eavesdropping On You

Smartphones are a great device that offers a variety of services that make our lives easier and faster. Since smartphones are used in multiple scenarios by everyone every single minute for utilizing sensors, stores huge amounts of data, and people using it in intimate scenarios and locations, they also raise concerns about being remote devices…
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Joe Biden Proposes $9bn Funding For US Agencies of Cyber Security

To enhance the work of cybersecurity agencies and their capabilities, to support the Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA), and bring up a vital upgrade to federal government security, Joe Biden (President-elect) has put-forward a funding plan of $9bn (i.e. 6.6bn Euros). This complete funding operation is a part of the American Rescue Plan that…
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A Severe Bug Present In WordPress Plugin Called Orbit Fox Serves Site Takeover

Two security vulnerabilities present in Orbit Fox (one of them is a privilege-escalation error and the other one is a stored XSS bug), which is a WordPress plugin, can enable bad actors to infuse a malicious code in any vulnerable website and also allow to take control of the site. WordPress plugin, Orbit Fox, is…
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Facebook Profile Data Scraped By Developers Of Malicious Chrome Extensions

Legal action has been filed by Facebook against two developers of Chrome extensions that the organization claimed was scraping client profile information that included profile IDs, names, and other browser-related data. The two anonymous developers working under the Oink and Stuff organization, created Chrome vindictive browser extensions, which contained concealed code that worked like spyware,…
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Undocumented Chinese Malware Used In Recent Attacks Has Been Discovered By Cybersecurity Researchers

A progression of cyberattacks by a bad actor of Chinese root focused on associations in Russia and Hong Kong with malware that included a formerly undocumented backdoor was unveiled by Cybersecurity researchers. Linking the mission to Winnti (also known as APT41), Positive Technologies dated the primary assault to 12 May 2020, when the APT utilized…
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