Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Spanish Police Arrest 40 in Phishing Gang Bust
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Spanish police have arrested dozens of individuals on suspicion of their involvement in a serious organized crime gang said to have made over €700,000 ($767,000) from phishing victims. Read via InfoSecurity Magazine.
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Minecraft Clones with 35 Million Installs Contained Adware
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Dozens of Minecraft-like mobile games downloaded by tens of millions of users from Google Play actually contained covert adware, McAfee has revealed. Read via InfoSecurity Magazine.
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Police Escape $1.2m Fine For Secretly Recording Phone Calls
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Two UK police forces have been reprimanded by the country’s data protection regulator after covertly recording over 200,000 phone calls with victims, witnesses and suspected perpetrators of crimes. Read via InfoSecurity Magazine.
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WhatsApp and other messaging apps oppose ‘surveillance’
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
WhatsApp, Signal and other messaging services have urged the government to rethink the Online Safety Bill (OSB). Read via BBC Technology.
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Hikvision: Chinese surveillance tech giant denies leaked Pentagon spy claim
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Chinese surveillance technology giant Hikvision has denied it is illegally disguising its products sold to the US government to enable Chinese espionage.
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CISA: Patch Bug Exploited by Chinese E-commerce App
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
A leading US security agency has given the government until May 4 to patch a zero-day vulnerability which was allegedly exploited by an e-commerce app to eavesdrop on users. Read via InfoSecurity Magazine.
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Pakistan-Aligned Hackers Disrupt Indian Education Sector
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
The threat actor known as APT36 or Transparent Tribe has been observed targeting the education sector in India with malicious Office documents distributing Crimson RAT. Read via InfoSecurity Magazine.
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KFC Owner Discloses Data Breach
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
A leading US fast food company has been sending out breach notification letters to individuals impacted by a ransomware incident that occurred in January. Read via InfoSecurity Mag.
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Genesis Market: Popular cybercrime website shut down by police
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
One of the world’s biggest criminal marketplaces used by online fraudsters to buy passwords has been closed down in a global law enforcement crackdown. Read via BBC News.
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Uber has internal data stolen in yet another cyberattack
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
A recent supply chain attack has resulted in sensitive data belonging to Uber drivers being stolen once again. Read via TechRadar Pro.
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