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Meta Platforms on Monday announced that it has started to expand global testing of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in Messenger chats by default. "Over the next few months, more people will continue to see some of their chats gradually being upgraded with an extra layer of protection provided by end-to-end encryption," Meta's Melissa Miranda said. The social media behemoth said it intends to notify

Devices running Android 12 and below are at risk of attackers downloading apps that direct users to a malicious domain.

By Deeba Ahmed Roaming Mantis malware was last seen in April 2018 targeting iOS and Android devices with cryptocurrency mining malware but this time, it has new DNS changer capabilities. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Roaming Mantis Malware Returns with DNS Changer Capability

Categories: Business We asked 250 schools and hospitals about their mobile security posture, including Chromebooks. Here’s what we found out. (Read more...) The post Key takeaways from Malwarebytes 2023 State of Mobile Cybersecurity appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Two security flaws have been disclosed in Samsung's Galaxy Store app for Android that could be exploited by a local attacker to stealthily install arbitrary apps or direct prospective victims to fraudulent landing pages on the web. The issues, tracked as CVE-2023-21433 and CVE-2023-21434, were discovered by NCC Group and notified to the South Korean chaebol in November and December 2022. Samsung

Researchers have shut down an "expansive" ad fraud scheme that spoofed more than 1,700 applications from 120 publishers and impacted roughly 11 million devices.  "VASTFLUX was a malvertising attack that injected malicious JavaScript code into digital ad creatives, allowing the fraudsters to stack numerous invisible video ad players behind one another and register ad views," fraud prevention firm

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Categories: News Tags: Google Tags: Rust Tags: Chromium Tags: Mailchimp Tags: SweepWizard Tags: bossware Tags: TikTok Tags: surveillance firm Tags: Voyager Labs Tags: TracketPacer Tags: Facebook Tags: Instagram Tags: Vice Society Tags: Liquor Control Board of Ontario Tags: Zoho ManageEngine Tags: GitHub Tags: LastPass Tags: Git flaw Tags: ransomware Tags: credit card fraud The most interesting security related news from the week of January 16-22. (Read more...) The post A week in security (January 16—22) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

By Owais Sultan This article will highlight some of the most significant Microsoft innovations that could make an impact in 2023 and beyond. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft Innovations for 2023: What to Look Out for This Year

Threat actors associated with the Roaming Mantis attack campaign have been observed delivering an updated variant of their patent mobile malware known as Wroba to infiltrate Wi-Fi routers and undertake Domain Name System (DNS) hijacking. Kaspersky, which carried out an analysis of the malicious artifact, said the feature is designed to target specific Wi-Fi routers located in South Korea.