News related to computer security, privacy and data protection
A software we use daily was no longer as harmless as we thought: the Notepad + + update was manipulated to redirect downloads to malicious servers. The team behind the popular tex…
The eScan antivirus update infrastructure, developed by the Indian firm MicroWorld Technologies, was compromised and used to distribute a malicious charger to both corporate and d…
A new security alert shows how fragile the code distribution chain can be: malicious actors managed to manipulate legitimate updates hosted in the Open VSX record to spread a malw…
In the current landscape of cybersecurity there are attacks that prefer subtlety and others that go to the rough: those that take advantage of open configurations and make it fast…
OpenAI confirmed weeks ago that it was experimenting with the inclusion of ads in ChatGPT for free accounts and some low cost, and now the first tracks of that deployment on Andro…
The verdict against Linwei Ding marks a revealing chapter in the race for supremacy in artificial intelligence: an engineer who worked in Google was found guilty for removing sens…
In recent weeks a global scam has emerged that exploits the most basic fear of anyone using copies in the cloud: losing photos, documents and backups. The attackers send emails th…
In recent weeks, a wave of intrusions has emerged that combines the old crafts of telephone deception with very sophisticated phishing tools, and whose aim is not to take a single…
In recent weeks, security investigators have unleashed a digital espionage campaign that directly targets those who document and seek information on abuses in Iran since the end o…
