It’s Almost Impossible to Tell if Your iPhone Has Been Hacked. A recent vulnerability in WhatsApp shows that there’s little defenders can do to detect and analyze iPhone hacks. Hackers have been breaking into iPhones allegedly using a powerful spy tool sold to governments and taking advantage of a previously unknown vulnerability in the popular messaging app [...]
Hackers breached 3 US antivirus companies, researchers reveal. Source code, network access being sold online by "Fxmsp" collective. In a report published Thursday, researchers at the threat-research company Advanced Intelligence (AdvIntel) revealed that a collective of Russian and English-speaking hackers are actively marketing the spoils of data breaches at three US-based antivirus software vendors. The collective, [...]
North Korean Hackers Use ELECTRICFISH Malware to Steal Data. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have issued a joint malware analysis report (MAR) on a malware strain dubbed ELECTRICFISH and used by the North-Korean APT group Lazarus to ex-filtrate data from victims. According to the MAR AR19-129A advisory [...]
Cloud database removed after exposing details on 80 million US households. Exclusive: The cache included information on addresses, income levels and marital status. In a blow to consumers' privacy, the addresses and demographic details of more than 80 million US households were exposed on an unsecured database stored on the cloud, independent security researchers have [...]