Category: News

Samsung Shattered Encryption on 100M Phones

One cryptography expert said that ‘serious flaws’ in the way Samsung phones encrypt sensitive material, as revealed by academics, are ’embarrassingly bad.’

Sextortion Rears Its Ugly Head Again

Attackers are sending email blasts with malware links in embedded PDFs as a way to evade email filters, lying about having fictional “video evidence.”

Creaky Old WannaCry, GandCrab Top the Ransomware Scene

Nothing like zombie campaigns: WannaCry’s old as dirt, and GandCrab threw in the towel years ago. They’re on auto-pilot at this point, researchers say.

Gaming, Banking Trojans Dominate Mobile Malware Scene

The overall number of attacks on mobile users is down, but they’re getting slicker, both in terms of malware functionality and vectors, researchers say.

Cyberattackers Cook Up Employee Personal Data Heist for Meyer

The Conti gang breached the cookware giant’s network, prepping thousands of employees’ personal data for consumption by cybercrooks.

Xenomorph Malware Burrows into Google Play Users, No Facehugger Required

Researchers discovered a new, modular banking trojan with ties to Cerberus and Alien that has the capability to become a much larger threat than it is now.

NFT Investors Lose $1.7M in OpenSea Phishing Attack

Attackers took advantage of a smart-contract migration to swindle 17 users.

New Critical RCE Bug Found in Adobe Commerce, Magento

Adobe updated its recent out-of-band security advisory to add another critical bug, while researchers put out a PoC for the one it emergency-fixed last weekend.

Severe WordPress Plug-In UpdraftPlus Bug Threatens Backups

An oversight in a WordPress plug-in exposes PII and authentication data to malicious insiders.

Iranian State Broadcaster Clobbered by ‘Clumsy, Buggy’ Code

Researchers said a Jan. 27 attack that aired footage of opposition leaders calling for assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader was a clumsy and unsophisticated wiper attack.