Netflix is home to more than 100 million users from around the world and since it is a paid service the chances of online threats against the service are higher than usual. Recently, HackRead detected a phishing scam that targets personal and financial data of Netflix users in the name of updating their payment method. Although there is nothing new about Netflix scams, when a phishing email comes right in your...
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In a Dark Web marketplace, one can buy anything from illegal drugs to weapons, fake documents to malicious software and even stolen databases, etc. Although after the shut down of Hansa and AlphaBay marketplace, buying and selling have slowed down. It does not, however, mean it has been fully curbed. Recently, a dark web monitoring firm 4iQ discovered a massive trove of 41GB data file containing 1.4 billion billion login credentials including emails and...
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Despite the huge impact WannaCry and NotPetya had on organizations, the two ransomware campaigns earlier this year did little to affect budgets or boardroom interest in security, according to a new study. AlienVault polled over 230 information security professionals around the world to see if anything had changed following the two major attack campaigns of May and June. The bad news is that only 14% have...
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The Indian Defence Ministry has advised troops stationed on the Chinese border to uninstall Chinese-made apps from their smartphones. In an advisory sent to troops at the end of November, Indian authorities warned soldiers that Chinese apps transmit user data back to servers located in China, and the Chinese government may use data collected by these services to pinpoint their location across the border. Advisory...
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HP has released driver updates for hundreds of notebook models to remove debugging code that an attacker could have abused as a keylogger component. The keylogging code was present in the SynTP.sys file, which is part of the Synaptics Touchpad driver that ships with some HP notebook models. “The logging was disabled by default but could be enabled by setting a registry value,” said Michael Myng,...
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