Google has delisted eight allegedly fraudulent mobile apps from its Play Store that were duping crypto enthusiasts by charging fees for an illegitimate cloud mining service.  Fraudulent mobile applications have now become a popular method to mislead unwary users with high success rates. Trend Micro’s latest research discovered eight Android applications thatContinue Reading

Cybercriminals and online scammers have begun setting up fake Facebook Pages for banks and other financial institutions in an effort to steal user credentials and other personal information. According to a new blog post from the cybersecurity firm Cyren, one of the company’s security researchers recently discovered a fake Facebook page imitating their bank thatContinue Reading

Blockchain technology could help make anti-piracy campaigns more open and transparent Researchers from Microsoft have devised a new way to fight online piracy using a proposed bounty system called “Argus” that runs on the Ethereum blockchain. As reported by TorrentFreak, the software giant’s research department recently published an article detailing its blockchain-based bounty system titled “Argus:Continue Reading

To help address the ongoing problems with the so-called PrintNightmare vulnerability (CVE-2021-34527), Microsoft has announced a change to the default behavior of the Point and Print feature in Windows. The change has been delivered via the KB5005033 and KB5005031 update and means that in order to install printer drivers, users will haveContinue Reading

Surveillance isn’t just the purview of nation-states and government agencies — sometimes, it’s closer to home Our digital selves, more and more, are becoming part of our full identity. The emails we send, the conversations we have over social media — both private and public — as well as photosContinue Reading

The continued growth of 5G networks across the world has led to infrastructure revenue hitting huge new highs, according to new figures. The latest research from Gartner has found that worldwide 5G network infrastructure revenue is set to total $19.1 billion in 2021 – a 39% increase from last year. The analystContinue Reading