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New Tool Can Jailbreak Any iPhone and iPad Using An Unpatched 0-Day Bug
The hacking team behind the "unc0ver" jailbreaking tool has released a new version of the software that can unlock every single iPhone, including those running the latest iOS 13.5 version. Calling it the first zero-day jailbreak to be released since iOS 8, unc0ver's...
How Cybersecurity Enables Government, Health, EduTech Cope With COVID-19
The advent of the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact on our society has resulted in many dramatic changes to how people are travelling, interacting with each other, and collaborating at work. There are several trends taking place as a consequence of the outbreak, which...
Iranian APT Group Targets Governments in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia
Today, cybersecurity researchers shed light on an Iranian cyber espionage campaign directed against critical infrastructures in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bitdefender said the intelligence-gathering operations were conducted by Chafer APT (also known as APT39 or Remix...
New DNS Vulnerability Lets Attackers Launch Large-Scale DDoS Attacks
Israeli cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details about a new flaw impacting DNS protocol that can be exploited to launch amplified, large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to takedown targeted websites. Called NXNSAttack, the flaw hinges on...
Ukrainian Police Arrest Hacker Who Tried Selling Billions of Stolen Records
The Ukrainian police have arrested a hacker who made headlines in January last year by posting a massive database containing some 773 million stolen email addresses and 21 million unique plaintext passwords for sale on various underground hacking forums. In an...
Brazil’s Biggest Cosmetic Brand Natura Exposes Personal Details of Its Users
Brazil's biggest cosmetics company Natura accidentally left hundreds of gigabytes of its customers' personal and payment-related information publicly accessible online that could have been accessed by anyone without authentication. SafetyDetective researcher Anurag...
British Airline EasyJet Suffers Data Breach Exposing 9 Million Customers’ Data
British low-cost airline EasyJet today admitted that the company has fallen victim to a cyber-attack, which it labelled "highly sophisticated," exposing email addresses and travel details of around 9 million of its customers. In an official statement released today,...
New Bluetooth Vulnerability Exposes Billions of Devices to Hackers
Academics from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) disclosed a security vulnerability in Bluetooth that could potentially allow an attacker to spoof a remotely paired device, exposing over a billion of modern devices to hackers. The attacks,...
HTTP Status Codes Command This Malware How to Control Hacked Systems
A new version of COMpfun remote access trojan (RAT) has been discovered in the wild that uses HTTP status codes to control compromised systems targeted in a recent campaign against diplomatic entities in Europe. The cyberespionage malware—traced to Turla APT with...
Improper Microsoft Patch for Reverse RDP Attacks Leaves 3rd-Party RDP Clients Vulnerable
Remember the Reverse RDP Attack—wherein a client system vulnerable to a path traversal vulnerability could get compromised when remotely accessing a server over Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol? Though Microsoft had patched the vulnerability (CVE-2019-0887) as part...
Researcher Spots New Malware Claimed to be ‘Tailored for Air‑Gapped Networks’
A cybersecurity researcher at ESET today published an analysis of a new piece of malware, a sample of which they spotted on the Virustotal malware scanning engine and believe the hacker behind it is likely interested in some high-value computers protected behind...
U.S Defense Warns of 3 New Malware Used by North Korean Hackers
Yesterday, on the 3rd anniversary of the infamous global WannaCry ransomware outbreak for which North Korea was blamed, the U.S. government released information about three new malware strains used by state-sponsored North Korean hackers. Called COPPERHEDGE,...
Over 4000 Android Apps Expose Users’ Data via Misconfigured Firebase Databases
More than 4,000 Android apps that use Google's cloud-hosted Firebase databases are 'unknowingly' leaking sensitive information on their users, including their email addresses, usernames, passwords, phone numbers, full names, chat messages and location data. The...
An Undisclosed Critical Vulnerability Affect vBulletin Forums — Patch Now
If you are running an online discussion forum based on vBulletin software, make sure it has been updated to install a newly issued security patch that fixes a critical vulnerability. Maintainers of the vBulletin project recently announced an important patch update but...
7 New Flaws Affect All Thunderbolt-equipped Computers Sold in the Last 9 Years
A cybersecurity researcher today uncovers a set of 7 new unpatchable hardware vulnerabilities that affect all desktops and laptops sold in the past 9 years with Thunderbolt, or Thunderbolt-compatible USB-C ports. Collectively dubbed 'ThunderSpy,' the vulnerabilities...
DigitalOcean Data Leak Incident Exposed Some of Its Customers Data
DigitalOcean, one of the biggest modern web hosting platforms, recently hit with a concerning data leak incident that exposed some of its customers' data to unknown and unauthorised third parties. Though the hosting company has not yet publicly released a statement,...
This Asia-Pacific Cyber Espionage Campaign Went Undetected for 5 Years
An advanced group of Chinese hackers has recently been spotted to be behind a sustained cyber espionage campaign targeting government entities in Australia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Brunei—which went undetected for at least five years...
Facebook Launches ‘Discover,’ A Secure Proxy to Browse the Internet for Free
More than six years after Facebook launched its ambitious Free Basics program to bring the Internet to the masses, the social network is back at it again with a new zero-rating initiative called Discover. The service, available as a mobile web and Android app, allows...