Google has been criticized for its decision to abandon plans to phase out third-party cookies in the Chrome browser, with privacy experts accusing the firm of prioritizing advertising revenue over user privacy. On July 22, Anthony Chavez, VP of the Privacy Sandbox initiative at Google, revealed the tech giant will no longer be deprecating third-party […]
Officials in Spain arrested three people as part of a takedown of a pro-Russia hacktivist group. The nation’s Ministry of Interior announced that three residents from different parts of the country were taken into custody for their alleged involvement in hacktivist crew NoName057(16). The three were not named and charges were not announced. The ministry […]
CrowdStrike released a Preliminary Post Incident Review (PIR) on the faulty Falcon update explaining that a bug allowed bad data to pass its Content Validator and cause millions of Windows systems to crash on July 19, 2024. The cybersecurity company explained that the issue was caused by a problematic content configuration update meant to gather telemetry on […]
Verizon Communications has agreed to pay a $16,000,000 settlement with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the U.S. concerning three data breach incidents at its wholly-owned subsidiary, TracFone Wireless, suffered after its acquisition in 2021. TracFone is a telecommunications service provider offering services through Total by Verizon Wireless, Straight Talk, and Walmart Family Mobile, among […]
Play ransomware is the latest ransomware gang to start deploying a dedicated Linux locker for encrypting VMware ESXi virtual machines. Cybersecurity company Trend Micro, whose analysts spotted the new ransomware variant, says the locker is designed to first check whether it’s running in an ESXi environment before executing and that it can evade detection on […]
A Telegram for Android zero-day vulnerability dubbed ‘EvilVideo’ allowed attackers to send malicious Android APK payloads disguised as video files. A threat actor named ‘Ancryno’ first began selling the Telegram zero-day exploit on June 6, 2024, in a post on the Russian-speaking XSS hacking forum, stating the flaw existed in Telegram v10.14.4 and older. ESET […]
It’s safe to say that the golden era of budget smartphones is long gone, with Xiaomi and Realme’s number series now operating in the sub-25K segment. However, this price push has left the biggest smartphone market—the 15K segment—in the dust, with people seemingly having no options. Therefore, when Xiaomi announced its new Redmi 13 5G […]
A string of attacks on VMware ESXi servers were launched by the Play ransomware group, best known for its double-extortion tactics. In a July 19 blog post, Trend Micro researchers said most of the attacks have been concentrated in the United States. The researchers explained that the ransomware will first verify if it’s running on […]
Two Russian nationals have pleaded guilty to their participation in the notorious LockBit ransomware gang, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced. Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov, aged 34, and Mikhail Vasiliev, aged 34, pleaded guilty to a range of charges related to their involvement as affiliates to the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group. Astamirov pleaded guilty to […]
Microsoft has released a custom WinPE recovery tool to find and remove the faulty CrowdStrike update that crashed an estimated 8.5 million Windows devices on Friday. On Friday, CrowdStrike pushed out a faulty update that caused millions of Windows devices worldwide to suddenly crash with a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) and enter reboot loops. This glitch […]
