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McAfee researchers found 16 clicker apps with adware in Google Play with 20M+ downloads in total; Google removed the apps after McAfee reported them (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

October 22, 2022

[ad_1] Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: McAfee researchers found 16 clicker apps with adware in Google Play with 20M+ downloads in…

Symantec details an ongoing campaign by the Witchetty hacking group, potentially tied to a China-backed threat actor, that hides malware in a Windows logo image (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

October 1, 2022

[ad_1] Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Symantec details an ongoing campaign by the Witchetty hacking group, potentially tied to a China-backed…

Brave says it will hide and block cookie consent notifications with an approach "more privacy-preserving" than similar systems used in other browsers (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

September 29, 2022

[ad_1] Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Brave says it will hide and block cookie consent notifications with an approach “more privacy-preserving”…

Researchers find 75 apps on Google Play and 10 on Apple's App Store that engaged in ad fraud, collectively had 13M installs, and have since been removed (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

September 26, 2022

[ad_1] Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Researchers find 75 apps on Google Play and 10 on Apple’s App Store that engaged…

Report: ransomware gangs are using intermittent encryption, where files are partly encrypted, to evade detection tools looking for intense file I/O operations (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

September 11, 2022

[ad_1] Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Report: ransomware gangs are using intermittent encryption, where files are partly encrypted, to evade detection…

Kaspersky details how the North Korean APT Kimsuky is using a multi-stage validation scheme to ensure their malware is only downloaded by specific targets (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

August 27, 2022

[ad_1] Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Kaspersky details how the North Korean APT Kimsuky is using a multi-stage validation scheme to…

Researchers detail Dark Utilities, a new service that provides an inexpensive way for cybercriminals to set up a command and control center for their operations (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

August 6, 2022

[ad_1] Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Researchers detail Dark Utilities, a new service that provides an inexpensive way for cybercriminals to…

Scans of MySQL server instances by Shadowserver analysts found 2.3M exposed servers on IPv4 and 1.3M on IPv6 devices (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

June 1, 2022

[ad_1] Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Scans of MySQL server instances by Shadowserver analysts found 2.3M exposed servers on IPv4 and…

Researchers devise a BLE relay attack that lets a hacker unlock and operate a Tesla outside its BLE range; Tesla said in April that it was a "known limitation" (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

May 17, 2022

[ad_1] Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Researchers devise a BLE relay attack that lets a hacker unlock and operate a Tesla…

UK sanctions Baikal Electronics and MCST, Russia's most important chipmakers, denying them access to the ARM architecture (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

May 7, 2022

[ad_1] Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: UK sanctions Baikal Electronics and MCST, Russia’s most important chipmakers, denying them access to the…