Tag Archives: data theft

Fears grow of deepfake ID scams following Progress hack

Enlarge / The number of deepfakes used in scams in just the first three months of 2023 outstripped all of 2022. FT Montage/Getty Images reader comments 18 with When Progress Corp, the Massachusetts-based maker of business software, revealed its file transfer system had been compromised this month, the issue quickly gathered global significance. A Russian-speaking… Read More »

Researchers find threat group that has been active for 5 years

Enlarge / Warning: Data transfer in progress Yuri_Arcurs/Getty Images reader comments 10 with 10 posters participating Share this story Researchers on Tuesday revealed a new threat actor that over the past five years has blasted thousands of organizations with an almost endless stream of malicious messages designed to infect systems with data-stealing malware. TA2541, as… Read More »

Adblockers installed 300,000 times are malicious and should be removed now

Getty Images reader comments 22 with 16 posters participating Share this story Adblocking extensions with more than 300,000 active users have been surreptitiously uploading user browsing data and tampering with users’ social media accounts thanks to malware its new owner introduced a few weeks ago, according to technical analyses and posts on Github. Hugo Xu,… Read More »