Identity Theft Spikes Due to COVID-19 Relief | Threatpost
Cases of identity theft in the United States doubled in 2020, mainly due to cybercriminals taking advantage of people affected economically by COVID-19 who filed Read More
February 2021
Wind River ‘Security Incident’ Affects SSNs, Passport Numbers | Threatpost
Wind River Systems, which develops embedded system software, on Friday warned of a “security incident” that had exposed personnel records. One or more files were Read More
Gaming Software Supply-Chain Attack Installs Spyware | Threatpost
Researchers allege, attackers have compromised the update mechanism of NoxPlayer, which is software that allows gamers to run Android apps on their PCs or Macs. Read More
Hezbollah-Linked Lebanese Cedar APT Infiltrates Hundreds of Servers | Threatpost
Advanced persistent threat (APT) group Lebanese Cedar has compromised at least 250 public-facing servers since early 2020, researchers said, with its latest malware. The group Read More
Critical Libgcrypt Crypto Bug Opens Machines to Arbitrary Code | Threatpost
The Libgcrypt project has rushed out a fix for a critical bug in version 1.9.0 of the free-source cryptographic library. An exploit would allow an Read More
Apple iOS 14 Thwarts iMessage Attacks With BlastDoor System | Threatpost
In an effort to prevent attacks from being launched via its iMessage feature, Apple has debuted a security service called BlastDoor in iOS 14, its Read More