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Hundreds of millions of users of Grammarly, Vidio, and the Indonesian e-commerce giant Bukalapak are at risk for financial fraud and credential theft due to OAuth misfires — and other online services likely have the same problems.

Spanish law enforcement officials have announced the arrest of 34 members of a criminal group that carried out various online scams, netting the gang about €3 million ($3.2 million) in illegal profits. Authorities conducted searches across 16 locations Madrid, Malaga, Huelva, Alicante, and Murcia, seizing two simulated firearms, a katana sword, a baseball bat, €80,000 in cash, four high-end

Despite warnings that sending one-time passwords via text messages is a flawed security measure, companies continue to roll out the approach, especially in consumer-facing applications.

IBM Security Verify Governance 10.0 does not encrypt sensitive or critical information before storage or transmission. IBM X-Force ID: 256020.

A spoofed version of an Israeli rocket-attack alerting app is targeting Android devices, in a campaign that shows how cyber-espionage attacks are shifting to individual, everyday citizens.

By Waqas The feature is called IP Protection, and it's important to note that it is not a VPN. A VPN encrypts all of a user's traffic, while IP Protection only masks their IP address. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Google Chrome to Mask User IP Addresses to Protect Privacy

The threat actor known as DoNot Team has been linked to the use of a novel .NET-based backdoor called Firebird targeting a handful of victims in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Cybersecurity company Kaspersky, which disclosed the findings in its APT trends report Q3 2023, said the attack chains are also configured to deliver a downloader named CSVtyrei, so named for its resemblance to Vtyrei. "Some

Categories: News Tags: week Tags: security Tags: October Tags: 2023 A list of topics we covered in the week of October 16 to October 22 of 2023 (Read more...) The post A week in security (October 16 - October 22) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Plus: IT workers secretly funnel money to North Korea, a court in the US upholds keyword search warrants, and WhatsApp gets a passwordless upgrade on Android

By Deeba Ahmed A large number of victims of these scams are unsuspecting users in India. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Chinese Scammers Use Fake Loan Apps for Money Laundering