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Google claims to have blocked billions of malicious app downloads
Google says it blocked 1.2 million apps from being published to the Google Play store...
Top 15 exploited security vulnerabilities in 2021
An advisory co-authored by cyber authorities in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK, details the...
Global security spending set to hit $198bn by 2025
According to a report from GlobalData, worldwide cybersecurity spending will grow by nearly 58% over the...
Russia experiences hacks at scale
Up until Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, many cyber actors specifically didn’t target Russian speaking countries, as many malware operators were...
Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover could be bad for security and privacy
After this week’s announcement that Twitter has accepted Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase offer,...
Mandiant finds record zero-days in 2021
According to the security firm’s annual report, disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities exploded in 2021, more than doubling the previous 2019...
Hackers find 122 vulnerabilities, 27 deemed critical, during first round of DHS bug bounty program
These vulnerabilities were found by more than 450 security researchers...
Critical chipset bugs open millions of Android devices to remote spying
Three security flaws have been revealed in the audio decoders of Qualcomm and MediaTek...
Okta reports on Lapsus$ breach
The company completed its third-party forensic investigation into its recent attack by the pernicious threat actor. Lapsus$ “actively controlled” a...
LinkedIn is now the most popular phish bait
Researchers at Check Point indicate that LinkedIn has become the most popular brand used in phishing attacks,...
Catalan leaders targeted by NSO spyware
According to security researchers at Citizen Lab, dozens of pro-independence Catalan officials, including the past four presidents of the...
Data breach disclosures surge 14% in Q1 2022
According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), for the first three months of 2022, publicly reported...
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