Email-based phishing schemes continue to trick victims with promises of coronavirus information, cures and vaccines, but now some fraudsters are also sending their targets lures related to the U.S. government-approved stimulus checks promised to most Americans. The latest evidence of this is a new report, authored by Abnormal Security, which details a scheme to impersonate…
The millions of children now taking online elementary school classes due to COVID-19 has proven to be a boon for Google, however the huge increase in usage comes at a time when the company is being sued by two entities for violating state and federal child privacy regulations for its other learning tools. This week…
As COVID-19 continues to spread around the world, so does the use of risky mobile applications designed to help track the outbreak. Some of these apps already present troubling privacy implications due to their ability to track the movements of local citizens and collect information on them. But beyond that, they may also be saddled…
A dark web forum specializing in marketing stolen social media accounts, SIM cards and phone numbers was itself hacked for the second time in less than a year. OGUsers on April 2 posted a notice on its site that was picked up by researchers at Under The Breach. The note stated the attacker entered OGUsers…
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages, the cyber community has rightly focused on protecting the health care industry from malicious hackers but education is at risk, too, as recently homebound students attend school in record numbers via online edtech platforms, e-learning environments and video conferencing. In a public service announcement this month, the FBI’s Internet Crime…
The bad news for Zoom keeps coming rolling in with Trend Micro researchers finding CoinMiner being bundled with a legitimate installer of the video conferencing software. The good news is the installer, Zoom installer version 4.4.0.0, is not from the company’s official download center, but likely from a fraudulent third-party store, Trend Micro reported. However,…
Mozilla patched two critical security issues in Firefox and Firefox ESR that are being abused in the wild. CVE-2020-6819 and CVE-2020-6820 each involve a race condition that can be exploited to exploited to create a use after free condition. The former vulnerability takes place when running the nsDocShell destructor and the latter when handling a…
Concerns over privacy prompted New York City to ban the use of Zoom by city schools and move instead to an approved platform like Google Meet or Microsoft Teams “as soon as possible.” “We want people to gradually transition to another format,” Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said at Mayor Bill de Blasio’s coronavirus press conference…
Some welcome good news on the COVID-19 front: Microsoft Corporation said it is stepping up its efforts to protect hospitals and other critical services from opportunistic cyberattacks, while Mozilla has founded a new fund to support open-source projects that help fight the pandemic. In a company blog post, Microsoft said that it identified dozens of…
