Cloud communications company Twilio says some of its customers’ data was accessed by attackers who breached internal systems after stealing employee credentials in an SMS phishing attack.
In an attack on Twitter, data of 5.4 million users was stolen, which was then offered for sale on the Internet, the company has confirmed. Last month, Restore Privacy reported that an attacker had obtained account details of 5.4 million users through a vulnerability in Twitter. The vulnerability made it possible to retrieve telephone numbers […]
Nearly 8,000 digital wallets have been drained of just over $5.2 million in digital coins including solana’s sol token and USD Coin (USDC), according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. Engineers from multiple ecosystems, with the help of several security firms, are investigating drained wallets on solana. The suggestion is that there must have been some […]
A critical vulnerability in Cisco VPN routers makes it possible for attackers to completely take over the remote devices or have them rebooted, causing a denial-of-service, the network manufacturer that released security updates to fix the problem warns. The vulnerability, designated CVE-2022-20842, is present in the web interface of Cisco Small Business RV routers RV340, […]
This study by Vivek Nair, Dwan Song (both of UC Berkeley) and Gonzalo Munilla Garrido (Technical University of Munich) sheds a light on the unprecedented privacy risks of the metaverse by showing how VR can be turned against its users and provides the first holistic framework for understanding intrusive data harvesting attacks in these emerging […]
A vulnerability in crypto bridge Nomad caused during maintenance has resulted in the theft of $190 million worth of cryptocurrencies. Coindesk will let you know. Nomad is a protocol that allows users to exchange tokens between different blockchains. When a user wants to transfer cryptocurrency from one blockchain to another, the bridge puts it in […]
A stolen password gave criminals access to 140,000 payment terminals used worldwide to process credit card payments. The payment terminals are from the company Wiseasy and are used by restaurants, hotels, shops and schools, especially in Asia. Through the Wisecloud cloud service, customers’ devices can be managed, configured and updated remotely by Wiseasy. The passwords […]
European privacy regulators are very concerned about plans by the European Commission to oblige chat services and other tech companies to scan all messages and other content from users for child abuse and speak of a serious risk to the fundamental rights of 450 million Europeans. The proposal imposes obligations on providers, hosting services, communication […]
A firehose of sensitive data from your vehicle is flowing to a group of companies you’ve probably never heard of. The Markup identified 37 companies that are part of the connected vehicle data industry. These companies seek to monetize vehicle data in an environment with few regulations governing its sale or use.
Research drives for a driver assistance system to avoid traffic accidents are expensive for Volkswagen will cost 1.1 million Euros because the group and a service provider used in the VW test vehicle did not take data protection very seriously and used surveillance cameras without the necessary identification.