[ad_1] Google today announced that the Google Chrome web browser will likely drop support for Windows 7 and 8.1 starting in February 2023. After discontinuing support for these two versions of Windows, the company says Chrome users should ensure their…
[ad_1] McAfee security researchers discovered a set of 16 malicious clicker apps that managed to sneak into Google Play, the official app store for Android. Clicker apps are a special category of adware that loads advertisements in invisible frames or…
[ad_1] The French data protection authority (CNIL) has fined Clearview AI 20 million euros for the illegal collection and processing of biometric data belonging to French citizens. The amount is the maximum financial penalty that the company could receive in…
[ad_1] Microsoft says the latest preview build of Windows 11 improves update management for IT admins and fixes several issues leading to app crashes. The goal of the update improvements in this release is to help administrators make system restarts…
[ad_1] A malicious actor is selling on hacking forums what he claims is a new UEFI bootkit named BlackLotus, a malicious tool with capabilities typically linked to state-sponsored threat groups. UEFI bootkits are implanted into the system firmware and are…
[ad_1] Microsoft has released a non-security out of band (OOB) update to address an issue triggering SSL/TLS handshake failures on client and server platforms. On affected devices, users will see SEC_E_ILLEGAL_MESSAGE errors in apps when connections to servers experience issues.…
[ad_1] A phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform dubbed 'Caffeine' makes it easy for threat actors to launch attacks, with an open registration process allowing anyone to jump in and launch their own campaigns of phishing. Caffeine doesn't require invites or referrals, or…
[ad_1] Hackers reportedly stole 2 million Binance Coins (BNB), worth $566 million, from the Binance Bridge. Details are scarce at this time, but the attack appears to have started at 2:30 p.m. EST today, with the attacker's wallet receipt of…
[ad_1] The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said in a public service announcement that cyber activity attempting to compromise election infrastructure is unlikely to cause massive disruption or prevent the vote. The…
[ad_1] The U.S. government today issued an alert about state-backed hackers who are using custom "CovalentStealer" malware and the Impacket framework to steal sensitive data from a U.S. Defense Industrial Base organization ( DIB). The compromise lasted approximately ten months…
