Category: malicious

Facebook sues cloaking software maker for deceptive COVID-19 ads

Post author By Randall
Post date April 9, 2020
Categories In ad, basant gajjar, cloaking, coronavirus, covid-19, Facebook, gear, lawsuit, leadcloak, malicious, News, Scam, Tech

[ad_1] Facebook is suing Basant Gajjar (aka LeadCloak) for allegedly selling software that helped bad actors circumvent Facebook’s automated ad review systems and push deceptive ads around COVID-19 and other scams. As the name suggests, LeadCloak’s software allegedly provided cloaking services, a malicious technique Facebook has been fighting for years. According to Facebook’s announcement, LeadCloack’s […]

LastPass patched a bug that could have exposed your passwords

Post author By Randall
Post date September 16, 2019
Categories In bug, chrome, credentials, flaw, gear, Google, Internet, lastpass, leaked, malicious, Mobile, opera, password manager, patch, project zero, Security, Tech, update, vulnerability

[ad_1] Security researcher Tavis Ormandy, of Google’s Project Zero, notified LastPass of the bug. The flaw could have allowed hackers on malicious sites to access users’ credentials entered on the previous site. Fortunately, there’s no reason to believe the bug was exploited, and while it only impacted Chrome and Opera browsers, LastPass patched all browser […]

TrickBot malware may have hacked 250 million email accounts

Post author By Randall
Post date July 12, 2019
Categories In accounts, contacts, Cybersecurity, deep instinct, Email, emails, gear, Gmail, governments, Hack, hotmail, Internet, malicious, malware, Security, Tech, trickbooster, trickbot, yahoo

[ad_1] In a recent investigation, Deep Instinct found a database containing 250 million compromised email accounts. The firm says millions of those belong to governments in the US and UK, as well as agencies in Canada. The database contained more than 25 million Gmail addresses, 19 million Yahoo.com addresses and 11 million Hotmail.com addresses. AOL, […]