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Mozilla has removed four extensions from Avast and AVG from the Firefox site that are suspected to track user activity online.
Four Avast and AVG Firefox extensions have been removed from Mozilla Addons Site over concerns of spying of users. “This add-on violates Mozilla’s add-on policy by collecting data without user disclosure or consent,” explained Mozilla. The four extensions developed by...
Apple is fixing encrypted email on macOS because it’s not quite as encrypted as we thought
Apple stakes a lot of its reputation on how it protects the privacy of its users, as it wants to be the only tech company you trust. But if you send encrypted emails from Apple Mail, there’s currently a way to read some of the text of those emails as if they were...
Microsoft Invoicing Is Being Retired – Export The Customer Data Before It Is Gone Forever
Microsoft has decided to retire the Invoicing app in Office 365 in 2020. If you act quickly, you can preserve your customer data and import it to your replacement application. While the issuing of invoices is a fundamental part of the day-to-day activity of any...
Dutch Govt Warns of 3 Ransomware Infecting 1,800 Businesses
A confidential report from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in the Netherlands informs that at least 1,800 companies are affected by ransomware across the world. The report names three file-encrypting malware pieces responsible for the infections that use the...
Active TrickBot Campaign Observed Abusing SendGrid and Google Docs
PhishLabs has observed an active TrickBot campaign targeting the employees of multiple organisations. Trickbot is a sophisticated successor of the Dyre Banking Trojan. It uses an intricate network of command and control servers (C2), web injects, and customized...
Google Shares Data on State-Sponsored Hacking Attempts
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) this week shared some data on government-backed hacking and disinformation attempts targteting its customers. Google has been alerting users of state-sponsored hacking attempts for several years and it has sent out thousands of...
Ginp Android Banker Sets as Default SMS App, Steals All Text
A new strain of mobile banking trojan called Ginp has been constantly refined to collect login credentials and credit card details. Starting in early June as an SMS stealer that delivered the victim's incoming and outgoing messages to a command and control (C2)...
Microsoft Blocks Windows 10 Upgrades For Avast And AVG Users
Users of some AVG and Avast antivirus software may be prevented from upgrading to the latest version of Windows 10 due to a compatibility issue. Microsoft has blocked upgrades to both Windows 10 versions 1909 and 1903 for AVG and Avast users running version...
California IoT Security Law: What It Means And Why It Matters
In September, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a new bill aimed at regulating the security of IoT devices, and it’s set to go into effect in a few short months on January 1, 2020. While the goal of the law is to better address the risks that increased...
Critical Windows Update Spam Fails at Delivering Ransomware
A new spam campaign pretending to be a 'Critical Microsoft Windows Update' has been discovered that attempts to deliver the Cyborg Ransomware, but turns out to be an utter failure. In a report from Trustwave that was released today, researchers outline how an attacker...