Google has introduced the Mobile Vulnerability Rewards Program (Mobile VRP), a new bug bounty initiative aimed at incentivizing security researchers to uncover vulnerabilities in the company’s Android applications. The program offers monetary rewards to bughunters who can find and help fix weaknesses in Google-developed or maintained first-party Android apps. In [...]
Easyjet, a low cost airline that is based in the UK recently reported that 9 million data records and as well as 2,200 credit card information of their customers were stolen by cybercriminals . due to the strict GDPR rules in Europe, it’s only natural for a company like EasyJet ...
One of Fortune 500 companies, Magellan Health was struck by a ransomware attack and data breach in April 2020. The healthcare giant confirmed by stating that about 365,000 patients were affected in the sophisticated cyberattack. According to the investigation, the attack was launched with a fully planned process where hackers first installed ...
Pfizer and BioNTech claimed that regulatory documents related to their jointly developed Covid-19 vaccine were “unlawfully accessed” during a cyber-attack on the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on December 10, 2020. In a brief statement given by the EMA on its website they did not provide details on the nature of ...
As the internet has made our life convenient and making us believe that we can trust them, are we actually safe while browsing the internet? Well, some people will agree & some will be contradicting but the question will still remain in doubt. Well, today I’m going to narrate about ...
Cyber Security is best described as the collective methods, technologies and processes to help protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of computer systems, networks and data against cyber-attacks or unauthorized access. In this era, the digital era, the importance of data security nowadays is as crucial as the amount, content ...
As we all are aware the major cybersecurity firm FireEye has been hacked, confirmed by the CEO Kevin Mandia in a blog post on Tuesday. One of the largest cybersecurity companies in the US, FireEye is investigating the cyberattacks in collaboration with Microsoft and the FBI is also working on ...
A new variant of the InterPlanetary Storm malware has been discovered, which comes with fresh detection-evasion tactics and now targets Mac and Android devices (in addition to Windows and Linux, which were targeted by previous variants of the malware). Researchers say, the malware is building a botnet with a current ...
A hacking group which was notorious in 2017, has recently been found impersonating legitimate messaging apps such as Telegram and Threema to infect Android devices with a new malware. “Compared to the versions documented in 2017, Android/SpyC23.A has extended spying functionality, including reading notifications from messaging apps, call recording and ...
The cybercriminal group has plagued firms with ransomware that were sent via spear phishing emails with COVID-19 lures, since March. A new cybercriminal group called OldGremlin has been targeting Russian companies – including banks, industrial enterprises and medical firms with ransomware attacks. OldGremlin relies on a group of tools, including ...
According to the report, Check Point researchers disclosed details about a critical vulnerability in Instagram’s Android app that could have allowed remote attackers to take control over a targeted device just by sending victims a specially crafted image. The most worrisome thing about this flaw is that it not only lets attackers ...
Google has introduced the Mobile Vulnerability Rewards Program (Mobile VRP), a new bug bounty initiative aimed at incentivizing security researchers to uncover vulnerabilities in the company’s Android applications. The program offers monetary rewards to bughunters who can find and help fix weaknesses in Google-developed or maintained first-party Android apps. In [...]
