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Passkeys are here to replace passwords. When they work, it’s a seamless vision of the future. But don’t ditch your old logins just yet.

Google has unveiled a new pilot program in Singapore that aims to prevent users from sideloading certain apps that abuse Android app permissions to read one-time passwords and gather sensitive data. "This enhanced fraud protection will analyze and automatically block the installation of apps that may use sensitive runtime permissions frequently abused for financial fraud when the user attempts

A coalition of dozens of countries, including France, the U.K., and the U.S., along with tech companies such as Google, MDSec, Meta, and Microsoft, have signed a joint agreement to curb the abuse of commercial spyware to commit human rights abuses. The initiative, dubbed the Pall Mall Process, aims to tackle the proliferation and irresponsible use of commercial cyber intrusion tools by

The State of Malware 2024 report covers some topics that are of special interest to home users: privacy, passwords, malvertising, banking Trojans, and Mac malware.

The threat actor known as Patchwork likely used romance scam lures to trap victims in Pakistan and India, and infect their Android devices with a remote access trojan called VajraSpy. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET said it uncovered 12 espionage apps, six of which were available for download from the official Google Play Store and were collectively downloaded more than 1,400 times between

By Deeba Ahmed CloudFlare Servers Were Hacked on Thanksgiving Day Using Auth Tokens Stolen in Okta Breach. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cloudflare Hacked After State Actor Leverages Okta Breach

By Waqas Anonymous Sudan alleges that the cyber attack they conducted has crippled the reservation system and other online assets of the targeted entity. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Anonymous Sudan Claims DDOS Attacks on UAE’s Flydubai Airline

Researchers recently discovered 49 zero-day vulnerabilities, including a two-vulnerability exploit chain in Tesla cars that could allow an attacker to take over the onboard infotainment system.

Plus: Google fixes dozens of Android bugs, Microsoft rolls out nearly 50 patches, Mozilla squashes 15 Firefox flaws, and more.

Chrome version 121 suffers from a javascript fork malloc vulnerability that indicates memory corruption upon crash.