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Here’s how to spot scams where criminals use deceptive text messages to hook and reel in their marks Have you ever received a text message from a delivery company that you are familiar with and never for a moment questioned it? Why would you? We now order so much online and all those delivery notifications…

Another in our occasional series demystifying Latin American banking trojans Vadokrist is a Latin American banking trojan that ESET has been tracking since 2018 and that is active almost exclusively in Brazil. In this installment of our series, we examine its main features and some connections to other Latin American banking trojan families. Vadokrist shares…

New mesh Wi-Fi routers may be the answer to your wireless signal woes, but how about your privacy and security? Wi-Fi is hard, especially powering the swarms of smart devices in the average home. To combat dead spots, metal surfaces which block or reflect signals, and distant garages too far to connect, manufacturers at CES…

The documents related to COVID-19 vaccine and medications were stolen from the EU’s medicines agency last month The European Medicines Agency (EMA), which evaluates and approves medicines for the European Union (EU), has disclosed that cybercriminals have posted online a portion of the documents that are related to COVID-19 vaccines and were stolen in a…

Your ‘networked computer on wheels’ has a privacy problem – when it comes to your data, you may not really be in the driver’s seat The CES 2021 conference heralds the natural progression of car-spying apps built directly into the car and tied directly to insurance companies. Originally slated to assist drivers in an emergency,…

Nobody said parenting was easy, but in the digital age it comes with a whole slew of new challenges. How do parents view the role of parental monitoring in children’s online safety? Experience from my nearly 20 years of being involved in the conversation around child online safety has caused me to be skeptical when…

Millions of people flock to Signal and Telegram as WhatsApp scrambles to assuage users’ concerns A little more than a week after announcing changes to its Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, WhatsApp is now postponing the enforcement of its new data sharing rules until May 15th. “We’re now moving back the date on which people…

Criminals coax employees into handing over their access credentials and use the login data to burrow deep into corporate networks The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a warning about campaigns where threat actors target employees worldwide with voice phishing (also known as vishing) attacks in order to steal their network credentials and…

Security flaws in a widely used DNS software package could allow attackers to send users to malicious websites or to remotely hijack their devices Millions of devices could be vulnerable to Domain Name System (DNS) cache poisoning and remote code execution attacks due to seven security flaws in dnsmasq, DNS forwarding and caching software commonly found…

It’s hardly fun and games for top gaming companies and their customers as half a million employee credentials turn up for sale on the dark web More than 500,000 login credentials linked to the employees of 25 leading game publishers have been found for sale on dark web bazaars, according to a report by threat intelligence…