Month: May 2022

The privacy-focused DuckDuckGo browser purposely allows Microsoft trackers on third-party sites due to an agreement in their syndicated search content contract between the two companies. […]

Mozilla has released security updates for multiple products to address zero-day vulnerabilities exploited during the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2022 hacking contest. […]

Hackers are targeting Russian government agencies with phishing emails that pretend to be Windows security updates and other lures to install remote access malware. […]

PyPI module ‘ctx’ that gets downloaded over 20,000 times a week has been compromised in a software supply chain attack with malicious versions stealing the developer’s environment variables. Additionally, versions of a ‘phpass’ fork published to the PHP/Composer package repository Packagist had been altered to steal secrets. […]

US car manufacturer GM disclosed that it was the victim of a credential stuffing attack last month that exposed customer information and allowed hackers to redeem rewards points for gift cards. […]

A threat actor targeted security researchers with fake Windows proof-of-concept exploits that infected devices with the Cobalt Strike backdoor. […]

Scammers are now leveraging dating apps like Tinder and Grindr to pose themselves as former victims of physical abuse to gain your trust and sympathy and sell you “ID verification” services. BleepingComputer came across multiple instances of users on online dating apps being approached by these catfishing profiles. […]

Security researchers have revealed that hackers can hijack your online accounts before you even register them by exploiting flaws that have been already been fixed on popular websites, including Instagram, LinkedIn, Zoom, WordPress, and Dropbox. […]

Cryptocurrency scammers are using deep fake videos of Elon Musk and other prominent cryptocurrency advocates to promote a BitVex trading platform scam that steals deposited currency. […]