Android Apps in Google Play Harvest Facebook Credentials
The apps all used an unusual tactic of loading a legitimate Facebook page as part of the data theft.
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Tara Seals has nearly 25 years of experience as a journalist, analyst and editor in the communications and technology space. Prior to Threatpost, Tara was the North American news lead for Infosecurity Magazine, and spent 13 years working for Informa (formerly Virgo Publishing), as executive editor and editor-in-chief at publications focused on both the service provider and the enterprise arenas. A Texas native, she holds a B.A. from Columbia University, lives in Western Massachusetts with her family and is on a never-ending quest for good Mexican food in the Northeast.
Kaseya Patches Imminent After Zero-Day Exploits, 1,500 Impacted
REvil ransomware gang lowers price for universal decryptor after massive worldwide ransomware push against Kaseya security vulnerability CVE-2021-30116.
TrickBot Spruces Up Its Banking Trojan Module
After focusing almost exclusively on delivering ransomware for the past year, the code changes could indicate that TrickBot is getting back into the bank-fraud game.
LimeVPN has confirmed a data incident, and meanwhile its website has been knocked offline.
The gang’s source code is now available to rivals and security researchers alike – and a decryptor likely is not far behind.
The self-propagating malware’s attack chain is complex, using former NSA cyberweapons, and ultimately drops cryptominers on targeted machines.
The “PrintNightmare” bug may not be fully patched, some experts are warning, leaving the door open for widespread remote code-execution attacks.
After 500 million LinkedIn enthusiasts were affected in a data-scraping incident in April, it’s happened again – with big security ramifications.
A survey from GSMA and Trend Micro shows a concerning lack of security capabilities for private 5G networks (think factories, smart cities, industrial IoT, utilities and more).
One of the Carbanak cybergang’s highest-level hackers is destined to serve seven years while making $2.5 million in restitution payments.
