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 [...]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 [...]
