The known cybersecurity research duo Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, from vpnMentor, discovered a data breach in the U.S.-based photo printing app, PhotoSquared. The exposed database potentially compromised personalized data of more than 100,000 PhotoSquared customers including their photos,...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the FBI recently exposed a new hacking activity that is apparently originated from North Korea. According to the Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF), state-sponsored...
Ukrainian Blackout Malware operated by the state-sponsored BlackEnergy gang, first made news in December 2015, when it took down the entire power grid of the Ivano-Frankivsk region in Ukraine. This malware specifically targets the SSH (Secure Shell) keys, which...
Google recently announced that it’s going to spend US$1 million to bring awareness on data privacy and internet security across the sub-Saharan Africa region. The search engine giant also launched its child online safety program “Be Internet Awesome” in...
Israel’s cyber intelligence and surveillance company NSO Group recently acquired drone technology startup Convexum in a cash deal of US$60 million. Based in Tel-Aviv, Convexum develops counter-drone technologies to combat malicious drones and land them safely. Founded by IDF...
Device-to-cloud cybersecurity company McAfee announced the extension of its partnership with Samsung to protect consumers’ personal data from online threats. The partnership enables Samsung smartphones to come up with pre-installed anti-malware protection powered by McAfee. In addition, the alliance...
It’s common knowledge that new cryptocurrency units come into existence through mining, a process of complex computation relying on CPU or GPU power. Unfortunately, this routine isn’t always done in an ethical way. Cybercriminals have masterminded numerous techniques to...
A study by Queen Mary University of London’s Cloud Legal Project has stated that the cybersecurity strategies for air transport set by the NIS Directive of European Union might be ineffective against cyber risks and do not go far...
Cybersecurity firm Group-IB recently detected a database containing over 460,000 payment card records of Indian banks on the darknet for sale. The database, named “INDIA-BIG-MIX (full name: INDIA-BIG-MIX (FRESH SNIFFED CVV) INDIA/EU/WORLD MIX, HIGH VALID 80-85%, uploaded 2020-02-05...
A simple yet critical coding flaw in Israel’s current ruling party’s election management application – Electoral, has exposed an entire Israeli voter database of 6,453,255 citizens. Ran Bar-Zik, a front-end developer of Verizon Media, was first tipped-off about this...
