Share There's a new strain of malware that specifically targets Android users that you should be aware of. Dubbed simply "Fakecalls," it is a banking trojan that boasts a powerful new ability we haven't seen before in the malware world. It can fake a call from your bank. On its face, it looks like most of the other mobile banking apps that Android users install. The graphics are well-done and it's a convincing copy of the banking software that it seeks to emulate. It[...]
Share Do you use the popular smartphone app "Cash App?" If so, you're certainly not alone. It is wildly popular and used by millions of people around the world. As one of the most wildly popular things on the web, that has made it a target. Cash App was formerly known as Square. Recently, they submitted a filing to the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) acknowledging that they had been breached. This was not a conventional hacking attack however. In this [...]
A nasty new malware strain has recently been spotted in the wilds by researchers at zScaler. Dubbed "BlackGuard" the malicious code has been found on a variety of Russian underground Blackhat forums. It is offered as a service and anyone criminally minded can access the code for the bargain price of just $200 a month. Because the malware is quite new the yet unknown authors are also selling lifetime subscriptions for just $700 in a bid to rapidly grow the code's user base and [...]
Do you have an Android device? Even if you don't, you know someone who does. Google is incredibly good at spotting poisoned copies of apps on its Play Store and getting rid of them before they can spread to the devices of users who rely on the safety and security offered by the Play Store. As good as they are, they're not perfect and sometimes malicious code masquerading as a legitimate app can slip through the company's impressive filtering system. Recently, the company [...]
Share It's 2022 and after years of warning people repeatedly about the dangers of using the same old passwords and using the same password across multiple websites, you would think this would get better. You would think we'd have that problem solved and there would be one less network security risk to worry about. Unfortunately, if you think that you would be wrong. Even now, after endless hours of email safety training and articles just like this one published by the hundreds all [...]
The US Federal Trade Commission reports that Americans lost almost six billion dollars to fraud last year. The $5.8 billion total represented a catastrophic 70 percent increase compared to the losses reported in 2020. The FTC maintains a database of millions of consumer records it uses to track such information. Based on the statistics gleaned from that database, US consumers filed 2,789,161 fraud reports during 2021. Roughly a quarter of those indicated a monetary loss. A [...]
Share Are you a Citibank customer? If so, be aware that a group of scammers is specifically targeting Citibank account holders. The campaign is incredibly convincing, and the emails look just like official communications from the company. All logos have been copied and are positioned correctly. The sender address appears genuine at first glance and the body of the email message is free of typos which is a common "tell" among poorly orchestrated phishing campaigns.[...]
Meyer Corporation is a California-based company and a giant in the cookware industry. Meyer is the latest victim in a seemingly never-ending parade of hacking attacks. The full extent of the attack has not yet been disclosed because an investigation into the matter is ongoing. However, we do know at this point that the attackers made off with at least one database containing the personal information of thousands of Meyer employees. The company issued a breach notification and has filed [...]
Share We have recently learned that Puma Sportswear was impacted by a data breach in the waning days of 2021. It's important to note that Puma's networks were not attacked directly. The attack was made against Kronos which is one of the company's North American workforce management service providers. In a recently filed data breach notification it was disclosed that the still unidentified attackers stole a variety of personal information belonging to Puma employees and their [...]
Hackers will attack absolutely anybody. No one is safe and nothing is sacred. Not even football is safe. The most recent high-profile attack was made against the San Francisco 49ers according to BleepingComputer which got confirmation from the 49ers. According to the information disclosed by the 49ers they are in the process of recovering from an attack by the BlackByte ransomware gang which caused a "temporary disruption" of parts of the 49ers IT infrastructure. [...]
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