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Apple Adds ‘BlastDoor’ to Secure iPhones From Zero-Click Attacks
Apple has quietly added several anti-exploit mitigations into its flagship mobile operating system in what appears to be a specific response to zero-click iMessage attacks observed in the wild. The new mitigations were discovered by Samuel Groß, a Google Project Zero...
British Mensa falls victim to cyber attack
The British branch of Mensa, the society for people with high IQs, admitted last week that it has been hit by a cyber attack. According to the FT, Mensa CEO John Stevenage informed the board that the society's website had become a victim of the cyber attack. "There...
Ransomware: The rise of Misfortune 500 businesses
Far too many executives and employees think ransomware is a nuisance delivered via an obviously fake phishing email. This misconception leaves companies exposed to attack. Ransomware has become a commodity threat that fosters new tools and technologies; skills and...
Apple faces yet another lawsuit over throttling iPhones
A consumer advocacy group in Europe has filed the latest lawsuit against Apple saying the company intentionally throttled older iPhones in Italy. First reported by TechCrunch, the potential class-action lawsuit seeks €60 million (roughly $73 million) in compensation —...
Beware of this active UK NHS COVID-19 vaccination phishing attack
A very active phishing campaign is underway pretending to be from the National Health Service (NHS), alerting recipients that they are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. On 25th January, numerous Twitter users began reporting that they received this phishing...
Windows 10X feature will prevent unauthorised factory resets
Windows 10X is a new streamlined version of Windows designed for security and performance that Microsoft announced in 2019 and plans to launch in Spring 2021 on a new range of devices. Many details so far have been scarce, but thanks to a Windows 10X build that was...
Phishers Target C-Suite with Fake Office 365 Password Expiration Reports
An ongoing phishing campaign delivering fake Office 365 password expiration reports has managed to compromise tens of C-Suite email accounts to date, according to a warning from anti-malware vendor Trend Micro. Targeting organizations in finance, government,...
Hackers Accidentally Expose Passwords Stolen From Businesses On the Internet
A new large-scale phishing campaign targeting global organizations has been found to bypass Microsoft Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) and steal credentials belonging to over a thousand corporate employees. The cyber offensive is said to have...
Users can be manipulated to share private information online
Online users are more likely to reveal private information based on how website forms are structured to elicit data, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have determined. “The objective was to demonstrate that we are able to cause smartphone and PC...
We got used to SMS notifications and phishers are capitalising on it
A rising onslaught of phishing messages delivered via SMS (aka “smishing”) has been hitting mobile users around the world in the last few months. The fake messages impersonate payment, package delivery and streaming services, government and healthcare organizations,...