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Coinbase Employee Falls for SMS Scam in Cyber Attack, Limited Data Exposed
Popular cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase disclosed that it experienced a cybersecurity attack that targeted its employees. The company said its "cyber controls prevented the attacker from gaining direct system access and prevented any loss of funds or...
Dozens of Vulnerabilities Patched in Intel Products
Intel last week announced patches for dozens of vulnerabilities across its product portfolio, including critical- and high-severity issues. The most severe of these flaws is CVE-2021-39296 (CVSS score of 10), which impacts the Integrated Baseboard Management...
Hackers Target SAS Network And Compromise App
SAS Scandinavian Airlines was hit by a cyber attack on February 14th, compromising its app. The airline was said to be working on a solution, with reports saying that the problem was fixed to a large extent. Still, SAS warned that the attack may have targeted customer...
How Cambridge Analytica-linked ‘Team Jorge’ manipulated global elections
A group of Israeli contractors, code-named "Team Jorge," has been exposed in an undercover investigation for allegedly manipulating over 30 global elections, using tactics including hacking, sabotage and the use of automated misinformation on social media. ...
Massive AdSense Fraud Campaign Uncovered – 10,000+ WordPress Sites Infected
The threat actors behind the black hat redirect malware campaign have scaled up their campaign to use more than 70 bogus domains mimicking URL shorteners and infect over 10,800 websites. "The main objective is still ad fraud by artificially increasing traffic to pages...
Enigma, Vector, and TgToxic: The New Threats to Cryptocurrency Users
Suspected Russian threat actors have been targeting Eastern European users in the crypto industry with fake job opportunities as bait to install information-stealing malware on compromised hosts. The attackers "use several highly obfuscated and under-development...
Endpoint security getting easier, but most organizations lack tool consolidation
IT and security teams are consolidating management and security functions to help better deliver new applications to end users, improve regulatory compliance, and reduce cyberattacks resulting from poor coordination between endpoint security and management teams,...
Google AI chatbot Bard gives wrong answer in its first demo
Google parent Alphabet saw a $100 billion decline in its market value on Wednesday after its AI-powered chatbot Bard gave incorrect answer in a promotional video, fuelling concerns that Google is falling behind competitor Microsoft. Google unveiled its AI...
Encrypted Messaging App Exclu Used by Criminal Groups Cracked by Joint Law Enforcement
A joint law enforcement operation conducted by Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland has cracked yet another encrypted messaging application named Exclu used by organized crime groups. Eurojust, in a press statement, said the February 3 exercise resulted in the arrests...
Google unveils AI chatbot ‘Bard’ – its answer to ChatGPT
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, on Monday announced its AI chatbot technology called "Bard", which the company claims will provide "fresh, high-quality responses" to users' queries by drawing on information from the web. In a blog post announcing the...