Month: February 2023

Feb 01, 2023Ravie LakshmananVulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of two security flaws in the open source ImageMagick software that could potentially lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) and information disclosure. The two issues, which were identified by Latin American cybersecurity firm Metabase Q in version 7.1.0-49, were addressed in ImageMagick version 7.1.0-52, released in November
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Instant messaging platform WhatsApp on Wednesday said it banned 36.77 lakh accounts in India in December, marginally lower than the number of accounts it barred in the preceding month. The banned WhatsApp accounts in India include 13.89 lakh accounts which were barred proactively before being flagged by users. In November, WhatsApp banned 37.16 lakh accounts in
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Feb 01, 2023Ravie LakshmananGaming / Cyber Attack A new attack campaign has targeted the gaming and gambling sectors since at least September 2022, just months prior to the ICE London 2023 gaming industry trade fair event that’s scheduled next week. Israeli cybersecurity company Security Joes is tracking the activity cluster under the name Ice Breaker,
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In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A man walks through Google offices on January 25, 2023 in New York City. Leonardo Munoz | Corbis News | Getty Images Google is testing new artificial intelligence-powered chat products that are likely to influence a future public product launch. They include a new chatbot
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Feb 01, 2023Ravie LakshmananEnterprise Security / Authentication Microsoft on Tuesday said it took steps to disable fake Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) accounts that were used for creating malicious OAuth applications as part of a malicious campaign designed to breach organizations’ cloud environments and steal email. “The applications created by these fraudulent actors were then used
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Cybersecurity researchers have identified a new malware that is said to be targeted at Ukraine. The malicious software, spotted by cybersecurity firm ESET, is intended to overwrite files used by Microsoft’s Windows operating system. The security researchers blamed the attack on a group dubbed “Sandworm” that has been repeatedly accused of conducting cyberattacks. The hacking
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