Recently, India’s technology giant Jio, partly acquired by Facebook, has disclosed the confidential data of people, tested for COVID-19. In March of this year, Jio released a service that allows users to identify COVID-19 symptoms with their phone or website. “The service was launched in March, right before India’s nationwide lockdown was announced, and allowed… Continue reading Techno giant Jio disclosed data of people tested for COVID-19
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Grandoreiro Banker Spreads Through Fake Coronavirus Videos
ESET analysts warned about surge in the activity of the banking Trojan Grandoreiro amid COVID-19 pandemic. The bunker is distributed through fake coronavirus videos. Experts report that Grandoreiro, previously written in Delphi, was distributed mainly through spam, through fake messages about the need to update Java or Flash. “We have seen Grandoreiro being distributed solely… Continue reading Grandoreiro Banker Spreads Through Fake Coronavirus Videos
Conspiracy theorists accused Bill Gates in creating coronavirus
Microsoft founder Bill Gates fell victim of fake theories that he was allegedly involved in the creation of the coronavirus COVID-19. In fact, conspiracy theorists accused Bill Gates in creation of a coronavirus and intention to achieve material benefits from the pandemic. At TED conference in 2015, Bill Gates argued that the greatest threat to… Continue reading Conspiracy theorists accused Bill Gates in creating coronavirus
Due to the pandemic Google developers re-enabled FTP support for Chrome
Most recently, I wrote that Firefox developers plan to remove from their browser support for the FTP protocol, as consider it to be unsafe. At the same time, Google re-enabled FTP support for Chrome. Google developers have been talking about abandoning FTP since 2014, since very few browser users (0.1-0.2%) use the protocol. In 2018,… Continue reading Due to the pandemic Google developers re-enabled FTP support for Chrome
COVID-19 pandemic raised interest in pirated sites
Currently, hundreds of millions of people remain at home and occur global changes in the Internet traffic trends. In particular, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, raised interest in pirated sites. The fact is that considerable part of the population now works from home, while other people also stay at home, but spend time online searching… Continue reading COVID-19 pandemic raised interest in pirated sites
NASA staff faces exponential increase in number of hacker attacks
Representatives of the space agency said that recently NASA staff and home-based agency contractors suffered from increase in the number of hacker attacks, and their devices are constantly trying to gain access to malicious sites. Therefore, according to official figures, in recent days, NASA personnel have been suffering from: doubling the number of phishing attacks… Continue reading NASA staff faces exponential increase in number of hacker attacks
The number of “coronavirus” cyberattacks increased to 5,000 per day
Check Point experts estimated that the number of “coronavirus” cyberattacks increased to 5,000 per day, and number of attacks on sites posing as Netflix services doubled. Researchers say the total number of cyberattacks has declined since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent economic downturn. However, the number of attacks related to COIVD-19 has… Continue reading The number of “coronavirus” cyberattacks increased to 5,000 per day
Due to pandemic, RDP and VPN usage grew by 41% and 33%
Amid of the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of remote access technologies such as RDP and VPN has grown significantly, as many companies have transferred their employees to remote work, and this usually involves a remote connection to internal networks. According to statistics from the Shodan search engine, by last Sunday, March 29, 2020, the… Continue reading Due to pandemic, RDP and VPN usage grew by 41% and 33%
Hackers spoof DNS settings to distribute fake coronavirus applications
Journalists from Bleeping Computer investigated that hackers are replacing DNS settings for distributing fake applications. The reason for the investigation were complaints of users, which reported on the forums that they were obsessively offered to download a strange application, allegedly informing about COVID-19 and created by WHO. As it turned out, the routers of these… Continue reading Hackers spoof DNS settings to distribute fake coronavirus applications
Cybercriminals fake letters from WHO to distribute HawkEye and trick money into fight with COVID-19
Specialists from IBM X-Force discovered a new malicious campaign, in which cybercriminals fake letters from WHO, impersonate its CEOs Tedros Adan Gebreisus, and send users emails containing a HawkEye keylogger. HawkEye is a credential theft program that is usually distributed through fraudulent emails and malicious Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and RTF files. “After installing on… Continue reading Cybercriminals fake letters from WHO to distribute HawkEye and trick money into fight with COVID-19