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 [...]
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 ...
A group of financially motivated hackers from Indonesia have been discovered using Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances for unauthorized cryptocurrency mining activities. The cloud security firm Permiso P0 Labs, which detected the group, has named them GUI-vil (pronounced Goo-ee-vil). The hackers show a preference for Graphical ...
Security researchers have uncovered a massive data breach at the Brazilian company Antheus Tecnologia, which produces and sells biometric solutions both in Brazil and internationally. The data was discovered on an unsecured server including 76,000 unique fingerprints, emails from company employees, telephone numbers and more. The server did not store ...
Since the discovery of Mountlocker Ransomware at the end of July 2020, it took its pace very well and has been growing in essence, and has become very prominent & geographically versatile. Recently, BlackBerry researchers published a technical analysis of a new MountLocker variant. The latest MountLocker version first surfaced in ...
San Francisco based blockchain company, Origin Protocol confirmed that its stable coin, Origin Dollar (OUSD) had been hacked for around $7 million in Ethereum and DAI of which around $1 million were deposited by the company founders and employees. A flash-loan transaction was the main reason for the attack. The ...
The working of the public carrier has been progressively moving to ICT stage. In this way, it has gotten basic to tie down the ICT framework to protect basic data. In recent times, there has been an increase in the number of breaches or attempted breaches to the ICT infrastructure ...
Nowadays the internet has become a preliminary part of our life, and with the developing technology, and the security about which websites & internets promises us about our data being confidential, are they actually safe? This article is all about how Google is working on protecting our data from intruders. ...
Royal Dutch Cycling Union (KNWU), the national governing body for cycling in Netherlands announced a data breach involving stolen data from its database consisting of members, personal and contact details on November 27, 2020. KNWU organizes cycling events and competitions in the Netherlands, providing a roster of benefits, discounts, cycling ...
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 ...
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 [...]
