Security
Stories tagged security by the outlets that filed them, newest first.
- Your uncle’s frozen Mac says it’s infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what? Researchers say they recently found Google ads delivering a sophisticated tech support scam that freezes the screens of both Windows and Mac devices and displays messages urgently instructing them.
- Fake Google Security Team ad says 'no script reading' in voice phishing - then prints the script A Telegram user recruiting callers to work in an apparent Google Security Team voice-phishing scam told applicants that they weren’t allowed to read from scripts – in the same ad.
- Crooks use fake desktop apps to fool HR staff into giving them remote access Nothing in the attack chain screams malicious software, except none of the impersonated HR and payroll providers offers a desktop app. The app isn't what it claims to be.
- Some Supabase customers are publicly exposing reams of people’s data to the web Thousands of databases hosted by development platform Supabase are exposing people’s sensitive information to the public web, new security research by cybersecurity firm UpGuard has found.
- Kiteworks urges customers to shut down their servers amid ‘imminent’ threat of cyberattack Technology giant Kiteworks is urging customers to shut down their systems after the company received information that hackers may attempt to target them.
- North Korean hackers suspected in $351M crypto theft, the largest so far this year North Korean hackers are suspected of stealing more than $351 million from the servers of cryptocurrency exchange Bitget during a cyberattack on Thursday.