The Gorgon APT, Advanced Persistent Threat, is an older yet unsafe online threat first discovered in February 2018. While the activities of the Gorgon APT flared on and off from February 2018 until now, the group is now back strongly with a new spear-phishing campaign. So far, the targets are being carried out in Europe though everyone else should be on safeguard too. It begins with an email containing subjects, invoice numbers, content with the description with the attached Excel document. Once the attached file gets clicked, the malicious file…

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The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a stark cautioning to universities across the country, urging them to be on their guard counter to Cyberattacks. The key risk, in fact, two-fold. Primarily, it comes from ne’er-do-wells looking for financial gain via untargeted attacks; however, they do “have the potential for greater financial impact”, reports the cybersecurity agency. In the meanwhile, though, the report sounds an alarm on a more silent threat, one that is “possibly to cause greater long-term harm” – state-sponsored attacks and surveillance. These infiltrations seek concerted…

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 Two popular malware-infected photo apps with over 1.5 million downloads have been officially removed from google play store for security concerns due to malware-related issues. These two apps having requirements for more authorizations than usual, granting them to record audio without users’ consensus and serve full-screen ads without even opening them violating Google’s policies.   Apart from this, both these apps were requesting users for unwanted permissions when they install on their respective Smartphones; and also asking for the audio recording and microphone’s permission from the users once they install…

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Facebook says that it hovered many thousands of apps, and as part of the research it awakens the Analytics data of Cambridge harvesting the indignity. Facebook said that not all the apps pose a threat to the individuals and moreover, it is also said that the hovering apps were linked with 400 developers. The organization came under the pressure in 2018 and after that, it was exposed that Cambridge Analytical had accessed the data of many individuals without consent. The consultancy firm is supposed to use this data – harvest…

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Recently we published new about Kaspersky found malware in popular CamScanner app and Google removed 24 malware-infected apps from play store. But this is not the end of malware, there is evidence of new viruses or security breaches every day. Just now, Andy Michael, an independent security researcher from New Zealand, has published the Adware report from the Google Play Store apps. According to him, some of the major VPN apps, which have 500+ million users, show ads not only in the background while runner the app but capture home…

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