Adafruit, a distributor of Raspberry Pi single board computers, has mandated that certain new purchases can only be completed with the use of two-factor authentication. The new requirement is due to reselling schemes that use bots to buy up…
A man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack consists of a victim, a website the victim would like contact with (such as a bank), and the attacker. The attacker inserts themselves between the victim and the targeted website with the intention to steal…
Global conflicts, such as the war in Ukraine, often have a corresponding cyberwar that can affect digital citizens across the globe. As on-the-ground invasions persist, the effects of cyberattacks can easily expand beyond the borders of con…
“In this war, we are seeing cyberattacks from both Russia and Ukraine,” Avast Security Evangelist Luis Corrons recently commented. “And on top of that, a number of cybercriminals are taking advantage of the situation in order to scam good-w…
A new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) amplification attack can increase damaging effects by four billion times and stretch out the length of the attack to 14 hours. The record-breaking amplification vector comes from misconfigured serv…
US President Joe Biden recently issued an executive order that will oversee various cryptocurrency efforts, including a study of whether there should be a virtual dollar-based cryptocoin, the efficacy of various future banking regulations f…
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has sparked a tremendous amount of empathy from people across the globe. Some have contributed by providing aid and shelter to refugees, while others have donated funds to charities supporting those in Ukrain…
Shortly after South American hacking group LAPSU$ took credit for the cyberattack that stole 1 TB of data from microchip company Nvidia, a LAPSU$ member claimed on the group’s Telegram channel that Nvidia had struck back with ransomware. A …
The IRS said this week that “a new option in the agency’s authentication system is now available for taxpayers to sign up for online accounts without the use of any biometric data, including facial recognition.” The announcement comes in re…
Avast has become aware of an email scam campaign purporting to be from our sales team. The emails claim that the recipient’s Avast subscription has been renewed for $499.99. The fake invoice contains a US phone number and encourages the rec…