Robinhood Trading App Suffers Data Breach of over 7 Million Users’ Account

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Robinhood has disclosed a security breach incidence which took place “late in the evening of November 3” and affected over 7 million customers eventually resulting in unauthorized access of personal information by an unidentified threat actor. They have however stated that the attack has been contained and no Social Security, bank account numbers or debit […]

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Pegasus-maker NSO Group and 3 Others Sanctioned by the U.S. Department of Commerce

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Four companies as well as the Isreal-based spyware company NSO Group and Candiru have been added to a list of entities engaging in “malicious cyber activities” by the U.S. Commerce Department. This addition is based on evidence that spyware was developed and supplied to foreign governments who in turn used these tools to maliciously target

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Facebook Stops Facial Recognition and Deletes Billions of Records

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Meta, facebook’s newly rebranded parent company on Tuesday announced plans to stop its decade-old “Face Recognition” system and would also delete more than a billion users’ facial recognition templates as part of a wider initiative to limit the use of the technology across its products. This shutdown would take effect over the coming weeks and

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Google Releases Patches for a New Android 0-Day Vulnerability

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Monthly security patches have been released by Google for Android, fixing 39 flaws inclusive of a zero-day vulnerability which is actively being exploited in the wild in limited targeted attacks. The zero-day bug tracked as CVE-2021-1048 is described as a use-after-free vulnerability in the kernel which could be exploited for local privilege escalation. Use-after-free could

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Chinese Payment-Terminal Company Raided By The FBI

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In furtherance of a federal investigation the FBI has searched the Florida premises of a Chinese payment-terminal provider. This comprised of the warehouse and offices belonging to Pax Technology. Pax was founded two decades ago and is headquartered in Shenzhen. According to its website, the company has delivered over 57 million terminals to more than

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Trojan Source: A New Technique Allowing Hackers Hide Vulnerabilities in Source Code

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Dubbed “Trojan Source attacks,” the technique “exploits subtleties in text-encoding standards such as Unicode to produce source code whose tokens are logically encoded in a different order from the one in which they are displayed, which eventually leads to a vulnerability which could not have been perceived by direct human code review. The vulnerability affects

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Millions of Android Users are Currently Targets of Premium Scam Apps

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Attackers are leveraging on 151 malicious Android apps with 10.5 million downloads in order to rope users into premium subscription service without consent and knowledge. This attack has been dubbed “UltimaSMS” and is believed to have commenced in May 2021. This attacker took advantage of apps covering wide range of categories including keyboards, QR code

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