Google has updated the Play Store Developer Policy page to ban mobile mining apps that mine cryptocurrencies using the computational resources of the devices. Due to the surge in cryptocurrency prices, many legitimate websites and mobile apps are increasingly using cryptocurrency miners. Following Apple’s decision of banning cryptocurrency mining apps announced in June, also Google has updated the Play […]
Thousands of account credentials associated with the popular file storage service Mega have been published online, The former NSA hacker Patrick Wardle, co-founder at Digita Security, discovered in June a text file containing over 15,500 usernames, passwords, and files names. 😢 Found file on VirusTotal w/ 15K+ Mega accounts (user names/passwords & users' file listings) 😥🤬 […]
A security researcher has discovered that the US political robocall firm RoboCent exposed personal details of hundreds of thousands of US voters. The US political robocall firm RoboCent exposed personal details of hundreds of thousands of US voters. The researcher Bob Diachenko from Kromtech Security discovered the company database exposed online. The expert was using the online service GrayhatWarfare that could be […]
Facebook has been fined £500,000 ($664,000) in the U.K. for its conduct in the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. Facebook has been fined £500,000 in the U.K., the maximum fine allowed by the UK’s Data Protection Act 1998, for failing to protect users’ personal information. Political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica improperly collected data of 87 million Facebook users […]
The Israeli-based decentralized cryptocurrency Bancor exchange is the last victim of a security breach in the cryptocurrency industry. According to a statement published by the Bancor exchange, an unknown hacker has stolen roughly $13.5 million worth of cryptocurrency. The security breach occurred on July 9, 2018 at 00:00 UTC, the attackers gained access to one […]
A cyber-espionage group tracked as BlackTech is abusing code-signing certificates stolen from D-Link for the distribution of their malware. Security experts from ESET discovered that an APT group tracked as BlackTech is using code-signing certificates stolen from Taiwanese-based tech firm D-Link and the security company Changing Information Technology Inc. According to the experts, the cyber espionage group […]
The Mobile fitness app Polar has suspended its location tracking feature due to the leakage of sensitive data on military and intelligence personnel. A new privacy incident involved Fitness application and military. this time the Mobile fitness app Polar has suspended its location tracking feature due to the leakage of sensitive data on military and intelligence […]
Security researchers at Kaspersky Labs have discovered a new strain of the Rakhni malware that could infect systems with either a ransomware or a cryptocurrency miner. Experts from Kaspersky Labs have discovered a new strain of the Rakhni ransomware family that could infect systems with either a ransomware or a cryptocurrency miner depending upon their configurations. “Way back in 2013 our malware analysts […]
On Friday, Facebook provided a 748-page long report to Congress that confirms the social network shared data with at least 61 tech firms after 2015. This is the worst period in the history of the social network, now Facebook admitted to having shared users’ data with 61 tech firms. The problem is that Facebook allowed tech companies […]
NSA is deleting hundreds of millions of records of phone calls and text messages dating back to 2015 due to technical irregularities. The US National Security Agency announced it is deleting hundreds of millions of records of phone calls and text messages dating back to 2015 due to technical irregularities in some data received from telecommunications service providers. “Consistent with […]