A newly disclosed vulnerability in a software development kit used by a variety of applications and sites allows an attacker to spy on ongoing audio and video calls. Detailed early Wednesday by security researchers at McAfee LLC’s Advanced Threat Research team, the vulnerability relates to the Agora Inc. Video SDK. The Agora SDK is designed to deliver ...

The price of bitcoin hit yet-another new record high today, briefly surpassing $50,000 around 9:30 p.m. EST. As when it broke through $40,000 for the first time on Feb. 8, support from Elon Musk through a significant investment from Tesla Inc. is being attributed to the rise, though other major companies are also reported to ...

International law firm Jones Day has been targeted in a ransomware attack and the stolen files were dumped on the internet. First reported Feb. 13 by DataBreaches.net, the attack is believed to have involved the Clop ransomware gang, the same group behind an attack on German tech giant Software AG in October. Officially Jones Day is ...

A new report has found that criminals who use cryptocurrency launder their funds through a small number of online services. Chainalysis Inc., which last month said only 0.34% of cryptocurrency is traded for illicit purposes, found last week that the actual number of those undertaking illicit transactions is also remarkably small. Describing money laundering as “highly concentrated,” Chainalysis ...

Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith has labeled the now-infamous hack of SolarWinds Worldwide LLC’s Orion software as the “largest and most sophisticated attack ever” as further details of the attack emerge. Smith (pictured) made the comments on an interview on CBSNews’ “60 Minutes” Sunday night while also disclosing that Microsoft had assigned 500 engineers to investigate ...

The French National Agency for the Security of Information Systems has publicly attributed a range of attacks that targeted multiple information technology providers in France to Russia’s Sandworm group. A technical report released in late January by the agency, also known as ANSSI, details a campaign that ran from 2017 to 2020. It exploited a ...

Hackers using Egregor ransomware have been arrested in Ukraine as part of the joint operation between French police and Ukrainian law enforcement. First reported Feb. 12 by France Inter, the arrests are said to have involved hackers suspected of being in contact with the Egregor ransomware gang as opposed to direct members of the gang ...

The use of facial recognition technology is often controversial in terms of privacy and bias issues, and some even suggest it should be banned. But ethical considerations aside, is it really that effective? Apparently not. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is one user of facial recognition technology. In 2020, a year that did see a drop ...

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has issued an urgent warning concerning a phishing scam that seeks to steal Electronic Filing Identification Numbers. The scam, which emerged just before the tax filing season began Feb. 12, involves emails that impersonate the IRS with a subject line “verifying your EFIN before e-filing.” The text of the email ...

Critical vulnerabilities in a popular WordPress plugin appear to have exposed more 100,000 websites to site takeovers. Detailed Wednesday by security researcher Chloe Chamberland at Wordfence, the vulnerabilities were found in Responsive Menu, a plugin that offers customizable mobile-friendly menu options in WordPress installs. The first vulnerability makes it possible for authenticated attackers with low-level permissions ...