Android malware steals PayPal cash
Malware continues to grow smarter and more sinister, as evidenced by the newest Android scam, which researchers discovered yesterday. At the heart of the scam is a fake app called Optimization Battery. Users can on…
Fake apps abuse Apple Touch ID
Two fake apps posing as fitness tools in the Apple App Store — “Fitness Balance” and “Calories Tracker” — used the Apple Touch ID to scam users out of a hundred dollars at a time. The malicious apps prompted users to u…
Another day, another data breach. Two, actually.
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.
Marriott-owned Starwood Hotels data breach
Another day, another data breach. Marriott-owned Starwood, the largest hotel chain in the world, confirmed that its Starwood Hotels database, which includes information on about 500 million hotel guests, ha…
Marriott-owned Starwood Hotels data breach
Another day, another data breach. Marriott-owned Starwood, the largest hotel chain in the world, confirmed that its Starwood Hotels database, which includes information on about 500 million hotel guests, ha…
Marriott-owned Starwood Hotels data breach
Another day, another data breach. Marriott-owned Starwood, the largest hotel chain in the world, confirmed that its Starwood Hotels database, which includes information on about 500 million hotel guests, ha…
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…
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) have each levied fines on international car service Uber to the tune of a collective £900,000. The fines were charged for, in the words of the ICO, “failin…
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.