An extraordinary iPhone hacking campaign revealed by Google last week may be linked to other Android spying campaigns focused on websites related to the Uyghurs, a Chinese Muslim minority group, and the East Turkistan region of China, according to new research from Volexity.
Researchers at Kaspersky discovered malware hiding in advertising within a recent version of the popular CamScanner app for Android smartphones. Over the years, the app has been downloaded over 100 million times from the Google Play store.
Do criminal organizations prefer to target organizations that hold cyber insurance policies? A ProPublica report suggests that because cyber insurance policyholders are more likely to pay ransoms, they're a more frequent target. But some cybersecurity experts have expressed skepticism.
Following racist and anti-Semitic tweets being posted for a short time to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's hijacked account - despite his use of two-factor authentication - Twitter blamed the security lapse on an unnamed mobile provider. A group called "Chuckling Squad" appears to be responsible.
Bulgaria's Personal Data Protection Commission has fined the nation's tax agency $2.9 million for failing to stop a breach that leaked tax records for nearly all of the country's citizens. Meanwhile, prosecutors have filed related criminal charges against employees of a penetration testing company.
Since at least 2016, hacked websites have targeted zero-day flaws in current versions of Apple iOS to surreptitiously implant data-stealing and location-tracking malware, says Google's Project Zero team. Apple patched the latest vulnerabilities in February.
An emerging cyber espionage group that apparently started its work in South Africa last year is now focusing on targeting critical control systems for oil and gas companies in the Middle East, according to researchers at two cybersecurity firms.
Mike Krygier of the New York City Cyber Command outlines threats to connected cities and critical infrastructure, including ransomware, and what steps can be taken to mitigate risks
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report offers an analysis of how French cyber police disrupted a cryptomining malware gang. Also featured: Apple's botched patching of a jailbreaking vulnerability; an industry veteran's insights on battling payment card fraud.
A new variant of the TrickBot banking Trojan is enabling attackers to conduct SIM swapping schemes against Verizon Wireless, Sprint and T-Mobile customers in the U.S., potentially paving the way for account takeover fraud, according to a report from Dell's SecureWorks division.
In a series of recent attacks attributed to the umbrella criminal group known as Magecart, malicious JavaScript code was injected into over 80 e-commerce websites to steal credit card and other customer data, according to a new report from the security firm Arxan, which highlights the sites' vulnerabilities.
A federal grand jury indictment of Seattle software engineer Paige A. Thompson charges her with stealing 100 million records from Capital One, stealing data from at least 29 other organizations, as well as using hacked cloud computing servers to mine for cryptocurrency.
The United States' June cyberattack against Iran wiped out a critical database used by the nation's paramilitary arm to plan attacks against oil tankers and at least temporarily degraded Iran's ability to covertly target Persian Gulf shipping traffic, the New York Times reports.
French police say they've disrupted the operations of the Retadup malware gang by subverting attackers' command-and-control infrastructure to delete the malicious code from 850,000 infected PCs and servers worldwide. The move came after police received a tip and technical assistance from security firm Avast.
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