Microsoft’s productivity scores have come under fire from privacy campaigners. Teams also collects a lot of data The rollout of new Microsoft 365 features to track productivity, which would monitor 73 pieces of “granular data” about workers, was meant to be a boon time for the technology company. But it quickly turned into a nightmare.…
Email phishing campaigns see rise as more consumers shop online this holiday season With the recent Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales leading to record levels of online purchases, criminals are now looking to take advantage with fake scam emails, experts have warned.
PowerPepper malware allows attackers to execute shell commands remotely Security researchers at Kaspersky have discovered a new malware strain developed by the hacker-for-hire group DeathStalker that has been designed to avoid detection on Windows PCs.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in a case that could lead to sweeping changes to America’s controversial computer hacking laws — and affect how millions use their computers and access online services.
Justin Smith has been hit with a one-two punch of bad luck. First, the Toronto man was duped by a job scam that made off with $3,000. Then his longtime bank, Tangerine, helped itself to money Smith had in his tax-free savings account to recoup what it had lost in the scam. “You keep your money in…
Eight-year-old Stantinko botnet updates its Linux malware. Stantinko, one of the oldest malware botnets still operating today, has rolled out updates to its class of Linux malware, upgrading its trojan to pose as the legitimate Apache web server process (httpd) in order to make detection harder on infected hosts.
Check Point researchers recently encountered WAPDropper, a new malware which downloads and executes an additional payload. In the current campaign, it drops a WAP premium dialer which subscribes its victims to premium services without their knowledge or consent.
The critical and important-severity flaws were found by a team at the China-based Tiunfu Cup hacking challenge. VMware has hurried out fixes for a critical flaw in its ESXi hypervisor, a few weeks after it was found during China’s Tianfu Cup hacking competition. The use-after-free vulnerability (CVE-2020-4004) has a CVSS score of 9.3 out of…
A newly uncovered trojan malware campaign is targeting businesses and higher education in what appears to be an effort to steal usernames, passwords and other private information as well as creating a persistent backdoor onto compromised systems. Jupyter infostealer has been detailed by cybersecurity company Morphisec who discovered it on the network of an unnamed higher education establishment in…
Homeland Security cybersecurity agency says update Google Chrome as attackers home in on new security flaws. Within the space of just three short weeks, Google has patched no less than five potentially dangerous vulnerabilities in the Chrome web browser. These are not your common vulnerabilities either, but rather ones known as zero-days. A zero-day being…