Monthly Archives: September 2020

1 TB of customer and contractor data leaked by fashion retailer BrandBQ

Posted: September 30, 2020

Categories: Security, Cyber Attack, Data Breach

Author: Npav Lab

The data loss occurred as the database was hosted over a misconfigured Elasticsearch server.

Joker malware was being distributed by 16 apps present on Google Play store

Posted: September 29, 2020

Categories: Security, Malware Alerts, Android Security

Author: Npav Lab

Google has found 16 new apps distributing Joker malware and has removed them from Play store.

100 % CPU usage and heating are some of the few problems that have risen after the new Google ChromeOS update

Posted: September 28, 2020

Categories: Security, Google, Bug

Author: Npav Lab

The new update of Google Chrome is causing various performance issues and heating problems.

A recently found flaw allows hackers to fully access user Instagram accounts

Posted: September 25, 2020

Categories: Security, Cyber Attack, vulnerability, Instagram

Author: Npav Lab

Hackers are targeting Instagram user accounts by exploiting certain flaws in the application.

Millions of user records were exposed by India's COVID-19 surveillance tool

Posted: September 24, 2020

Categories: Security, Cyber Attack, Data Breach, COVID-19

Author: Npav Lab

Around 8 million user records were exposed by the COVID-19 surveillance tool.

Fake pending message notifications are being sent out by hackers in their new phishing scam

Posted: September 23, 2020

Categories: Security, Cyber Attack, Phishing

Author: Npav Lab

Phishing emails with fake undelivered message notifications are landing in user inboxes.

Firefox android browser hijacked by hackers by exploiting critical vulnerability

Posted: September 22, 2020

Categories: Security, vulnerability, Mozilla

Author: Npav Lab

Mozilla has recently fixed a bug in its android browser that was being exploited by hackers.

Firefox Notes and Send permanently shut down over malicious use by Mozilla

Posted: September 21, 2020

Categories: Security, Cyber Attack, Mozilla

Author: Npav Lab

Mozilla has finally shut down Notes and Firefox Send services to put a stop on their malicious use.

Source code of Cerberus banking trojan released online for free

Posted: September 18, 2020

Categories: Security, Cyber Attack, Android Security, Banking Trojan

Author: Npav Lab

The developer has finally released the source code of Cerberus for free after a failed attempt of auctioning it.

Microsoft server's and VPNs unpatched vulnerabilities are being exploited by hackers

Posted: September 17, 2020

Categories: Security, Cyber Attack, vulnerability, Microsoft

Author: Npav Lab

CISA has claimed that Chinese hackers are targeting cyber environment of various countries.