16 more infected Android apps you need to delete ASAP
There are plenty of reasons to own an Android phone instead of an iPhone, from the plethora of choices to the lower prices to the experimental designs, but Android device …
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StripedFly malware targets more than a million PCs, disguising as a crypto miner
Kaspersky unveils StripedFly, a stealthy malware posing as a crypto miner, compromising over a million Windows and Linux systems globally since 2016. For over half a decade, a dangerous malware …
Apple’s Encryption Is Under Attack by a Mysterious Group
Does the public have a right to see gruesome photos of animal test subjects taken by a public university? That question underpins an ongoing court battle between UC Davis and …
Bing Chat beat a CAPTCHA used to stop hackers and spammers
Bing Chat is no stranger to controversy — in fact, sometimes it feels like there’s a never-ending stream of scandals surrounding it and tools like ChatGPT — and now the …
Hackers Can Use Bluetooth Speakers To Steal Your Car
Modern cars are filled with all kinds of tech to make them safer to drive, more entertaining to handle, and, supposedly, more secure. In spite of this, the rate of …
Chinese Spies Infected Dozens of Networks With Thumb Drive Malware
For much of the cybersecurity industry, malware spread via USB drives represents the quaint hacker threat of the past decade—or the one before that. But a group of China-backed spies …
You Need to Update Google Chrome or Whatever Browser You Use
China-linked hackers are increasingly moving beyond espionage and into the disturbing world of power grid attacks. Threat researchers at security software firm Symantec this week released new evidence that the …
5 Things Successful Businesses Do to Fight Cybercrime
In this digital age, cyberattacks aim to exploit a business’s every vulnerability—namely it’s people, devices, and systems. With attacks potentially coming from every direction, what is a business leader supposed …
This dangerous new Mac malware steals your credit card info
People like to think that Apple’s Macs are more or less invulnerable to the assorted viruses and trojans that afflict Windows PCs, but that’s far from the truth. That’s just …
China-Linked Hackers Breached a Power Grid—Again
Some evidence suggests the 2021 India-focused hacking campaign and the new power grid breach identified by Symantec were both carried out by the same team of hackers with links to …