We seem to be blasé about our use of personal information in the modern world and share data freely with one and all with little regard to any possible consequences. There are more than 100 million Alexa devices in our homes, for instance, listening in to our conversations every day. Our use of Gmail too is routinely used to pick up on conversational keywords to sell goods and services back to us. It is an attempt to anticipate and monetise our conversations that has become routine across so many apps. Many of us have accepted it as part and parcel…
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According to Javelin’s 2020 Identity Fraud Report, financial institutions’ methods to identify and respond to fraud are no match for criminals’ high-tech schemes to hijack consumer accounts. Fraud losses grew 13 percent in 2019 to $16.9 billion even as instances of fraud fell from 14.4 million in 2018 to 13 million in 2019, which resulted in consumers facing $3.5 billion in out-of-pocket costs last year as criminals shifted their focus from card fraud to opening and taking over accounts. PerimeterX researchers are finding similar attacks in related industries.
Malicious cyber actors are taking advantage of the mass move to home working by exploiting a variety of publicly known vulnerabilities in VPNs. By taking advantage of these vulnerabilities, hackers could gain access to sensitive corporate files by breaching someone’s home network or email account, paving the way for extortion, blackmail, or further attacks. This comes as part of a wave of new means of conducting campaigns, according to ZDNet.
In a report published today ), Qihoo 360 made it public that it detected an APT attack that delivers malicious files through hijacked security services of a domestic VPN provider. They have reported the vulnerability details to the service provider and received confirmation. Further reversing shows that the attack can be attributed to the Darkhotel (APT-C-06), an APT gang in the Korean Peninsula. Since March this year, more than 200 VPN servers have been compromised and many Chinese institutions abroad were under attack. In early April, the attack spread to government agencies in Beijing and Shanghai. The monitoring and analysis…
Google is delaying a Chrome security update to minimize disruption while people are forced to work remotely, according to TechRadar. Back in February, Google started to implement an important change to limit the functionality of third-party cookies in Chrome. Launched in Chrome 80, the cookie changes were designed to help improve the privacy and security of users. But just two months later, Google is rolling back the changes to cookie handling citing the “extraordinary global circumstances due to Covid-19”.
Over the weekend there was news that developers and medical experts across Europe are looking to launch opt-in apps that they say will help health officials stem the spread of the virus while protecting personal privacy.
As reported by TechRadar, Microsoft has laid out plans to make its Teams collaboration software more secure than ever as it deals with the remote working boom. The video conferencing service has seen a huge surge in users in recent weeks as workers around the world are forced to work from home. But with competitors such as Zoom facing heavy criticism for a number of security and privacy failings, Microsoft Teams has now laid out just how it plans to safeguard these vital aspects.
Cybercriminals are bundling malware inside installers of video-conferencing application Zoom in an effort to lure victims into unwittingly infecting their computers with malicious software.
It has been reported that INTERPOL (the International Criminal Police Organisation) has warned that cybercriminals are increasingly attempting to lockout hospitals out of critical systems by attempting to deploy ransomware on their networks despite the currently ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.
Over the weekend, it was reported that Schools in New York City are moving away from using the video conference app Zoom after a review of security concerns. The city’s Department of Education is directing schools to “move away from using Zoom as soon as possible,” Danielle Filson, a department spokeswoman, told CNN in a statement.