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Cyber Security Today, Nov. 25, 2022 – The Android patch-gap continues, beware of corrupted VPN apps and more

The Android patch-gap continues, beware of corrupted VPN apps and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday, November 25th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.   If you have a certain model of an Android phone from Google Pixel, Samsung and other manufacturers it may have vulnerabilities hackers can take

Bahamut promoting phony VPN apps on Android

Bahamut, a well-known cyber-mercenary group, is currently targeting Android devices with bogus VPN apps and injecting malware into them to steal user credentials using...

INTERPOL Operation leads to arrest of criminals, seizures of funds

An INTERPOL law enforcement operation codenamed "HAECHI III," which ran from June 28 to November 23, 2022, has resulted in the arrest of 975...

Metropolitan police sending messages to suspected victims of fraud

The Metropolitan Police is sending text messages to over 70,000 mobile phone users who it believes have been contacted by fraudsters posing as their...

Russian affiliated hackers take down EU Parliament website

KillNet hackers took down the website of the European parliament's website on Wednesday, just hours after the legislative body declared Russia a terrorist state. The...

Attackers are using decommissioned Boa web server on energy grids

Microsoft is warning organizations about the risks associated with the decommissioned Boa web server, which was apparently exploited by threat actors in an operation...

Russian cybercrime groups stole passwords across 111 countries

According to Group IB, at least 34 distinct Russian-speaking cybercrime groups targeting Amazon, PayPal, and Steam with info-stealing malware under the stealer-as-a-service model like...

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