Recently, security companies all over the world have seen a surge in spam, hacking, and scam campaigns that are taking advantage of the fear and confusion surrounding the global pandemic. They're using promises of COVID-19 information and access to pandemic-related equipment as hooks to lure people into clicking on links or downloading poisoned files. Although hackers are employing a wide...
If you own an Android device, odds are excellent that your go-to source for apps of any kind is the Google Play Store. That includes antivirus apps to help keep your device safe. Unfortunately, the hackers of the world are aware of that fact and are always on the lookout for ways to capitalize on that. Recently, researchers at Check...
If you use certain VMWAre products, be aware that the company has recently identified and issued a patch for a total of five critical security vulnerabilities. These are being tracked as: CVE-2022022954 (This issue is a server-side template injection remote code execution issue) CVE-2022-22955 CVE-2022-22956 (This issue, and the one above it are both OAuth2 ACS authentication bypass vulnerabilities) CVE-2022022957...
Do you use the popular smartphone app "Cash App?" If so, you're certainly not alone. It is wildly popular and used by millions of people around the world. As one of the most wildly popular things on the web, that has made it a target. Cash App was formerly known as Square. Recently, they submitted a filing to the SEC...
There's a new malware threat to keep an eye out for according to researchers from Zscaler. Dubbed FFDroider, this one is known for hijacking a variety of social media accounts and stealing credentials and cookies stores in web browsers. Given the dominance of social media properties on the web, that makes FFDroider a serious threat. If there's a silver lining...
Over the past few weeks, there's been a bit of an uproar on various social media channels. Many AMD users are reporting inexplicable changes to their BIOS settings which users were never asked to approve. AMD began investigating the issue and isolated it to AMD Ryzen chips and it appears the company's user base was correct. There's an issue with...
If you're an Apple user and you have an iPhone, a Mac, or both, you'll want to grab the company's most recent security update. The latest release pushes out fixes for a pair of zero-day vulnerabilities that researchers have seen actively exploited in the wild. The flaws in question are being tracked as CVE-2022-22674 and CVE-2022-22675 respectively. The former is...
Do you have an iPhone? If so, are you running IOS 15.4? If you are, you may have noticed an unusual power drain on your battery that's dramatically shortening the life per charge. That's the kiss of death for any handheld device and if you're experiencing the issue, you're not alone. The good news is that Apple just issued a...
Do you have an HP LaserJet Pro, a Pagewide Pro, an OfficeJet, Enterprise, Large Format, or DeskJet printer at your home or in your office? If so, then be aware that your machine is likely vulnerable to at least one of four security vulnerabilities rated as critical. The first of these is a buffer overflow flaw that could lead to...
A nasty new malware strain has recently been spotted in the wilds by researchers at zScaler. Dubbed "BlackGuard" the malicious code has been found on a variety of Russian underground Blackhat forums. It is offered as a service and anyone criminally minded can access the code for the bargain price of just $200 a month. Because the malware is quite...
