Month: February 2021

As dating apps experience a boom amid COVID-19, losses to romance scams soar too More and more people have been flocking to online dating platforms in search of romance and companionship in the wake of lockdowns and social distancing mandates, but the new reality is also creating conditions that contribute to record-high losses from romance…

The Exaramel backdoor, discovered by ESET in 2018, resurfaces in a campaign hitting companies that use an outdated version of a popular IT monitoring tool France’s national cybersecurity agency ANSSI has disclosed details about an intrusion campaign targeting IT services firms that run the Centreon IT resource monitoring tool. The attacks, which have hit mainly…

The first instance of malicious code native to Apple Silicon M1 Macs emerged a month after the release of devices equipped with the company’s in-house CPUs In November, Apple debuted to great acclaim a series of Mac computers sporting its new Apple Silicon M1 chips. The release of the new hardware also grabbed the attention…