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Credit to Author: Dan Goodin, Ars Technica| Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 08:00:00 +0000
Details are starting to emerge about a stunning supply chain attack that sent the open source software community reeling.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:28:17 +0000
On April 9, Twitter/X began automatically modifying links that mention “twitter.com” to redirect to “x.com” instead. But over the past 48 hours, dozens of new domain names have been registered that demonstrate how this change could be used to craft convincing phishing links — such as fedetwitter[.]com, which is currently rendered as fedex.com in tweets.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, Andrew Couts| Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2024 21:22:02 +0000
To settle a years-long lawsuit, Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” collected from users of “Incognito mode,” illuminating the pitfalls of relying on Chrome to protect your privacy.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 20:28:17 +0000
If only Patch Tuesdays came around infrequently — like total solar eclipse rare — instead of just creeping up on us each month like The Man in the Moon. Although to be fair, it would be tough for Microsoft to eclipse the number of vulnerabilities fixed in this month’s patch batch — a record 147 flaws in Windows and related software.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2024 06:00:00 +0000
Millions lost internet service after three cables in the Red Sea were damaged. Houthi rebels deny targeting the cables, but their missile attack on a cargo ship, left adrift for months, is likely to blame.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:12:16 +0000
A cybercrook who has been setting up websites that mimic the self-destructing message service Privnote.com accidentally exposed the breadth of their operations recently when they threatened to sue a software company. The disclosure revealed a profitable network of phishing sites that behave and look like the real Privnote, except that any messages containing cryptocurrency addresses will be automatically altered to include a different payment address controlled by the scammers.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:16:25 +0000
Roughly nine years ago, KrebsOnSecurity profiled a Pakistan-based cybercrime group called “The Manipulaters,” a sprawling web hosting network of phishing and spam delivery platforms. In January 2024, The Manipulaters pleaded with this author to unpublish previous stories about their work, claiming the group had turned over a new leaf and gone legitimate. But new research suggests that while they have improved the quality of their products and services, these nitwits still fail spectacularly at hiding their illegal activities.
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