New Attack Let Attacker Collect and Spoof Browser's Digital Fingerprints

The Hacker News Daily Updates How Does Cybersecurity in Your Organization Stack Up? See if you're making the grade. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Oct 26, 2021 Over 10 Million Android Users Targeted With Premium SMS Scam Apps A global fraud campaign has been found leveraging 151 malicious Android apps with 10.5 million downloads to rope users into premium subscription services without their consent and knowledge. The premium SMS scam campaign — dubbed "UltimaSMS" — is believed to commenced in May 2021 and involved apps ... Read More Malicious Firefox Add-ons Block Browser From Downloading Security Updates Mozilla on Monday disclosed it blocked two malicious Firefox add-ons installed by 455,000 users that were found misusing the Proxy API to impede downloading updates to the browser. The two extensions in question, named Bypass and Bypass XM, "interfered with Firefox in a way that prevented users who ... Read More New Attack Lets Hackers Collect and Spoof Browser's Digital Fingerprints A "potentially devastating and hard-to-detect threat" could be abused by attackers to collect users' browser fingerprinting information with the goal of spoofing the victims without their knowledge, thus effectively compromising their privacy. Academics from Texas A&M University dubbed the attack ... Read More Hardware-grade enterprise authentication without hardware: new SIM security solution for IAM The average cost of a data breach, according to the latest research by IBM, now stands at USD 4.24 million, the highest reported. The leading cause? Compromised credentials, often caused by human error. Although these findings continue to show an upward trend in the wrong direction, the challenge ... Read More Microsoft Warns of Continued Supply-Chain Attacks by the Nobelium Hacker Group Nobelium, the threat actor behind the SolarWinds compromise in December 2020, has been behind a new wave of attacks that compromised 14 downstream customers of multiple cloud service providers (CSP), managed service providers (MSP), and other IT services organizations, illustrating the adversary's ... Read More How Does Cybersecurity in Your Organization Stack Up? See if you're making the grade. Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to myemailku.ghdbrevo2018@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India