SoundCloud has had a wild ride since it was founded in 2007, and today it was reported by Sky News that the current owners are trying to sell it for one billion dollars. What does this price tag mean? How could it impact DJs and producers who rely on the platform? Could this be a […]
Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes WASHINGTON — Digital sabotage had knocked a Somalian news website and email accounts offline in August. “I can still feel the frustration,” reporter Abdalle Ahmed Mumin told Reuters. “Our link to the outside world, to the international media, is our website.” It was only after getting help from Qurium, a […]
When users click on the ad, they are redirected to a fake Windows news site, where they are prompted to download a digitally signed CPU-Z installer. This installer contains a malicious PowerShell script known as the ‘FakeBat’ malware loader.
Nov 10, 2023NewsroomPrivacy / Cyber Espionage Urdu-speaking readers of a regional news website that caters to the Gilgit-Baltistan region have likely emerged as a target of a watering hole attack designed to deliver a previously undocumented Android spyware dubbed Kamran. The campaign, ESET has discovered, leverages Hunza News (urdu.hunzanews[.]net), which, when opened on a mobile […]
The Associated Press news website experienced an outage that appeared to be consistent with a denial-of-service attack, a federal criminal act that involves flooding a site with data in order to overwhelm it and knock it offline. Attempting to visit the apnews.com site starting Tuesday afternoon would load the home page, although links to individual […]
Experts Discover Multiple Malicious npm Packages | Cyware Alerts – Hacker News The world of open-source software offers countless benefits to developers worldwide. However, with opportunities also come risks. The FortiGuard Labs team recently uncovered numerous malicious packages within npm, the most extensive software registry for JavaScript. This article delves deep into these packages, unveiling […]
In the latest cybersecurity news, researchers have found a new Python malware targeting Tatar language-speaking users. The Tatar language is a Turkic language spoken primarily by the Tatars, an ethnic group in Russia and neighboring countries. This Python malware strain, sourced by Cyble, can capture screenshots on the victim’s systems and send them over to […]
This news story was updated on September 4, 2023, to reflect an update given regarding the cyber security incident by Duolingo. The scraped data of more than 2.6 million users of language learning app, Duolingo, has been posted to a dark web hacking forum. The information was put up for sale on a dark web […]
This week’s surprise news of a pending acquisition of Serato Audio Research by AlphaTheta Corporation (Pioneer DJ’s parent company) riled up many DJs. There’s been (very valid) concerns expressed about market consolidation, dampening of innovation, and long term support for legacy products. But what about the flip side? Is this deal born out of a […]