Category Archives: Consumer Alerts

Seesaw: Popular elementary school app used to distribute obscene image

Cassie,* a Vermont mother of four, woke up to a shock yesterday morning. When she went to check the Seesaw app — which she uses to communicate with her kids’ schools — she found that an obscene photo had been sent to her youngest’s teacher at …

Avast and NortonLifeLock merge to tackle new challenges in Cyber Safety

It’s been more than a year since Avast and NortonLifeLock announced our intention to merge. One of the main reasons was to be able to put even more resources and expertise into new products and customer experience, thereby moving the entire cy…

Pro-Russian hackers are targeting infrastructure inside Ukraine and allied countries

Avast researchers have been tracking a pro-Russian hacker group called NoName057(16) since June 1, 2022. The group — which exclusively carries out DDoS attacks — has evolved throughout the Ukraine war, first targeting Ukrainian news servers an…