According to Coinhive, the BlackBerry Mobile website was hacked by exploiting a critical security vulnerability in the Magento e-commerce software. The spike in the value of some cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin is attracting the interest of cyber criminals. The numbers of incidents and cyber attacks involving miners and mining scripts continue to increase and the last […]
A group of researchers discovered marketing companies have started exploiting an 11-year-old vulnerability in browsers’ built-in password managers to track visitors. A group of researchers from Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy has discovered that at least two marketing companies, AdThink and OnAudience, that are exploiting an 11-year-old vulnerability in major browsers to track visitors. The researchers […]
Force 47 is a brigade composed of 10,000 cyber warriors to fight online dissent in Vietnam, a new threat to freedom of speech in the country. Like many other Governments, also Vietnam is deploying a cyber army of 10000 cyber experts to fight online dissent in the country. The news was revealed by a top Vietnamese […]
The Iran Government is also trying to isolate the protests by blocking internet on mobile networks, authorities are blocking Instagram and messaging services like Telegram. At least 12 people dead in the biggest challenge to the Government of the Tehran regime since mass demonstrations in 2009. The Iranian President Hassan Rouhani tried to downplay the dangerous situation, while violent […]
Chinaâs largest social media network, WeChat, is set to become an official electronic ID system in the country, an ID pilot program was launched in Guangzhouâs Nansha District. WeChat (âWeixinâ in China) is Chinaâs largest social media network, according to Tencent Holdings, the platform had 980 million monthly active users as of late September. A […]
According to Ukrainian media, the head of the EXMO cryptocurrency exchange Pavel Lerner has been kidnapped in Kiev, the police is investigating the case. According to Ukrainian media, the Russian IT expert Pavel Lerner has been kidnapped in Kiev. Pavel Lerner (40) is a and managing director EXMO, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, and according to a Ukrainian media Strana.ua he stopped […]
The popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta was hacked, attackers conducted a DNS attack that allowed to steal at least 308 ETH ($266,789) as well as a large number of tokens. The spike in cryptocurrency values is attracting cybercriminals, the last victim is the popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta that announced a potential attack against its DNS server. As result […]
The recent spike in the Bitcoin price and the fees associated with each transaction are making Bitcoin a less useful payment method in the cybercrime underground. We have a long debated the use of unregulated virtual currencies like Bitcoin in the criminal underground. Virtual currencies have a crucial role in facilitating illicit commerce, it is normal that […]
Researchers from the mobile security firm Lookout have discovered three fake Bitcoin wallet apps in the official Play store, Google promptly removed them. Experts from mobile security firm Lookout have discovered three fake Bitcoin wallet apps in the official Play store. The fake Bitcoin wallet apps were removed by Google Play after security researchers reported their discovery […]
Facebookâs is rolling out a new feature for its photo tagging mechanism, it now looks for users in photos theyâre not tagged in. Facebook is rolling out a new feature for its photo tagging mechanism that will now scan newly uploaded photos and alert all the users it recognizes in that photo. The feature aims to […]