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Enlarge Researchers said a team of hackers tied to North Korea recently managed to get the Google Play market to host at least three Android apps designed to surreptitiously steal personal information from defectors of the isolated nation. The three apps first appeared in the official Android marketplace in January and weren’t removed until March […]
Enlarge / One the left, a legitimate Chrome extension. On the right, one of seven recently discovered malicious Chrome extensions impersonating it. (credit: Radware) Criminals infected more than 100,000 computers with browser extensions that stole login credentials, surreptitiously mined cryptocurrencies, and engaged in click fraud. The malicious extensions were hosted in Google’s official Chrome Web […]
Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) Fancy Bear, the advanced hacking group researchers say is tied to the Russian government, is actively exploiting a newly revived technique that gives attackers a stealthy means of infecting computers using Microsoft Office documents, security researchers said this week. Fancy Bear is one of two Russian-sponsored hacking outfits researchers say breached Democratic […]
Hacks that target major websites are nothing new, but Crunchyroll just suffered a particularly vicious attack. The anime streaming service was compromised for hours on November 4th after intruders planted a fake home page that pushed a malicious “CrunchyViewer” program to visitors. If Windows users were trusting enough to launch the file, it installed a […]
Eggs have been the focus of much attention this week after the news that 700,000 contaminated Dutch eggs had been distributed to the UK. It’s thought that consuming the eggs – contaminated with the pesticide fipronil – could harm people’s kidneys, liver and thyroid glands. According to the Food Standards Agency, it is very unlikely […]
FOOD poisoning is caused by eating contaminated food – and this week the safety of eggs was called into question after pesticide was used in the production of Dutch eggs distributed to the UK. But what about the famous cause of food poisoning in eggs – salmonella? Daily Express :: Health Feed
