A slew of cyber espionage attacks has targeted high-profile individuals in India, including diplomats and military officials with the help of some not-so-new methods of attack: phishing and watering hole sites.
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Large Banks in the US have weak password policies
In a rather ironic turn of events, over 350 million individuals who have accounts with the large banking companies in the United States are using passwords that are weaker than the ones they use for their social media accounts.
Newly discovered HTTPS vulnerability leaves many connections exposed to attacks
Millions of Internet users are facing the risk of cyber threats as security researchers uncovered a major flaw in the transport layer security that can expose usernames, passwords, banking credentials and credit card to attacks.
Hackers using malicious Word documents to steal money from businesses
Hackers like to manipulate legitimate software tools and applications to carry out their malicious activities, and Microsoft Word becomes the latest program used by the bad actors to spread file-encrypting malware and/or Trojan to steal money from businesses.
First ransomware targeting Mac users halted
The very first ransomware designed to target users of Mac computer has been busted over the weekend with close coordination between Apple Inc. and Palo Alto Networks.
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