News related to computer security, privacy and data protection
A Ghanaian citizen pleaded guilty this week for his involvement in a vast network of scam that, according to the authorities, stripped victims in the United States of over $100 mi…
In what has already emerged as another campaign aimed at the backbone of communications, Cisco Talos researchers have detected since 2024 a series of intrusions focused on telecom…
The FBI confirmed this week that it is investigating a computer incident that compromised systems used to manage surveillance authorizations and phone intervention orders. The age…
Recently, Microsoft security researchers gave the alarm about a social engineering campaign that takes advantage of a legitimate piece of the Windows ecosystem to induce victims t…
Since 2024, a persistent actor linked to China, identified by researchers as UAT-9244, has focused on telecommunications service providers in South America, committing both Window…
Security researchers recently warned about a campaign that exploited the combination of legitimate repositories in GitHub and the IA-enhanced search recommendations to deliver mal…
This morning the Wikimedia community and thousands of users around the world woke up with a disturbing news: a malicious script that was self-replicated came to run within the pro…
A serious failure in the User Registration & Membership plugin, developed by WPEverest and present on tens of thousands of WordPress sites, is being used by attackers to take cont…
The Google threat intelligence team (GTIG) has just closed its annual balance sheet and the message is clear: the zero days remain a persistent and, on some fronts, growing threat…
