1-800-Flowers and Quora Report Data Breaches | Avast
Another day, another data breach. Two, actually.
Tag Archives: phishing
Sennheiser Headsets Open Door to Hackers | Avast
When you put on a world-class brand headset before using your computer, you’re probably not worried that it will open your world to hackers. But according to this new report, if you own headsets from Sennheiser, you need to think again.
Scamclub Malvertising Targets iOS Users | Avast
On November 12th & 13th — just two weeks ago — a malvertising scam was mistakenly boosted by a legitimate ad exchange, and as a result, over the course of just 48 hours, 300 million users were redirected to shady phishing sites, mostly adult site…
Russian Hackers at Work, 3rd Gmail Glitch, Magento Sites at Risk | Avast
Russia’s hackers have new phishing tricks
There’s no rest from Russian hacking groups. This time they’re targeting governments in the U.S., the European Union and former Soviet Union territories with weaponized documents containing malware.
Avast Improves Phishing Detection | Avast
Phishing is a long-standing social engineering technique used by cybercriminals to trick people into giving up sensitive information such as credit card details and login credentials. It can come in many forms, including telephone phishing, smishing …
BA Website Hijacked by Magecart. Again. | Avast
Magecart is certainly on a roll as it has managed to rack up quite a kill rate of late. In its latest act, the group has stolen sensitive information of nearly 185,000 booking transactions from British Airways. This is the group’s second attack against…
Avast pumps protection, performance, and privacy in 2019 | Avast
The tech world evolves. The ones who wear black hats get smarter, and the ones who wear white hats get even smarter. Using AI, machine learning, and the big data of our vast network, we’re proud to be forerunners in the latter category, staying a step …
Facebook security breach – what should you do? | Avast
Are you one of the 50 million people who found themselves logged out of Facebook upon waking this morning? If so, there’s no cause to panic. Here’s what’s happening.
Security news: More phishing, Canada pays ransom, SMBs are a target | Avast
Data breach in the wild
“Practice what you preach” was clearly not a part of the Swiss-based Veeam’s policy as someone left almost 200GB of data available to anyone online. The unsecured MongoDB server was open from August 31st, 2018 to September 9th,…
How to tell if an Android App is safe to install | Avast
By now, you should be familiar with that sudden bout of uncertainty as you are gearing up to install a new application. How do you check if an Android app is safe to install? Does it have a virus? What does a malware app even look like? If you have eve…