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2022-02-11 10:44:12 French data protection authority has ruled that the use of "Google Analytics" violates the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Details: https://thehackernews.com/2022/02/france-rules-that-using-google.html

Last week a German court found that embedding "Google Fonts" also violates GDPR. Open / Comment

2022-02-11 06:33:41 Apple releases software updates to patch a new "actively exploited" 0-day vulnerability (CVE-2022-22620) in WebKit targeting iPhone, iPad, and Mac users.

Read details: https://thehackernews.com/2022/02/apple-releases-ios-ipados-macos-updates.html Open / Comment

2022-02-10 17:02:16 Researchers uncover a new campaign of "FritzFrog," a Golang-based peer-to-peer botnet, attacking healthcare, education, and government sectors, and has already infected over 1,500 hosts within a month.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2022/02/fritzfrog-p2p-botnet-attacking.html Open / Comment

2022-02-10 13:27:05 CISA, FBI, NSA & the cybersecurity agencies of Australia and the United Kingdom have issued a joint statement on the sharp increase in sophisticated RANSOMWARE attacks against critical infrastructure around the world.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2022/02/cisa-fbi-nsa-issue-advisory-on-severe.html Open / Comment

2022-02-10 10:23:33 Russia cracks down on 4 dark web marketplaces ⁠— Ferum Shop, Sky-Fraud, Trump's Dumps, and UAS ⁠— specialize in the theft and sale of stolen credit cards.

https://thehackernews.com/2022/02/russia-cracks-down-on-4-dark-web.html Open / Comment

2022-02-10 09:36:52 WordPress plugin "PHP Everywhere" contains multiple critical RCE vulnerabilities, affecting more than 30,000 websites worldwide.

Read details: https://thehackernews.com/2022/02/critical-rce-flaws-in-php-everywhere.html Open / Comment

2022-02-09 16:53:50 United States seizes $3.6 BILLION in cryptocurrency stolen during the 2016 Bitfinex hack and arrests a couple for conspiring to launder $4.5 billion worth of cryptocurrency.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2022/02/us-arrests-two-and-seizes-36-million-in.html Open / Comment

2022-02-09 14:30:25 A new Marlin backdoor was used by Iranian hackers in the "Out to Sea" cyberespionage campaigns.

https://thehackernews.com/2022/02/iranian-hackers-using-new-marlin.html Open / Comment

2022-02-09 13:52:33 ESET's latest threat report shows Russian cyber espionage hacking groups are using COVID -19 lures to attack European diplomats.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2022/02/russian-apt-hackers-used-covid-19-lures.html Open / Comment

2022-02-09 09:44:21 February 2022 Patch Tuesday

Microsoft, Adobe, Android, Mozilla, Intel, SAP, Citrix and other major software companies release security updates to patch dozens of security vulnerabilities in their products.

Details — https://thehackernews.com/2022/02/microsoft-and-other-major-software.html Open / Comment