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Another information stealer malware dubbed Vidar stealer has emerged, equipped with advanced capabilities to manipulate social media platforms as an arbitrator command-and-control server. This newly emerged infostealer followed the recently discovered new malware distribution methodology from the BitRAT operators. According to researchers, the Vidar Stealer is constantly making disposable social media accounts from multiple platforms...Continue Reading

The social media company, Twitter, has finally published a statement regarding the leaked dataset of email addresses from hundreds of millions of users. According to the social media platform, the spread and sold data online from their company was not a result of exploiting a vulnerability within their systems. According to their investigation, no evidence...Continue Reading

Researchers discovered another Facebook-related attack from unknown threat actors that led to credential loss of targeted victims. Based on reports, the attackers have leveraged the Facebook copyright infringement notices to harvest credentials for numerous users. The hackers have been spreading fake Facebook copyright infringement notices to deceive users, which could fall victim to their scheme...Continue Reading

Malware operators are currently spreading a malicious YouTube bot that could artificially increase the rankings of videos on the streaming platform and steal critical data from browsers. Based on reports, the bot retrieves commands from a command-and-control server for other illegal actions. Researchers discovered that the actors launched the YouTube bot malware as a 32-bit...Continue Reading

Meta said in a recent disclosure that it hunted down and blocked the infrastructure of numerous spyware vendors from various countries, including China, Russia, India, Israel, and the US. These malicious vendors targeted tens of thousands of individuals across 200 countries, operating since at least 2017. In a published post last December 15, Meta said...Continue Reading

One of the states in the US has banned the use of TikTok and other Russian and Chinese products by its agencies. Lawmakers executed the ban after some news broke out where Chinese-linked actors stole millions from COVID funds in the US. The state announced that these Chinese-affiliated agencies pose an unacceptable level of cybersecurity...Continue Reading

The WASP malware operators are exploiting the “Invisible Body Challenge” on the video-sharing platform called TikTok to deploy infostealer. Based on reports, the malware could steal passwords, Discord accounts, and credit card information kept on crypto wallets and browsers. Moreover, WASP could file from an infected device. According to investigations, the target of the infostealing...Continue Reading

About 500 million mobile numbers owned by WhatsApp instant messaging app users were said to be sold by an unknown hacker on underground forums. According to the hacker that posted the ad, the alleged WhatsApp mobile numbers were fresh data that is not older than 2022. The sold database contained exactly 487 million phone numbers...Continue Reading

The big-time social media company Meta is said to have sent several employees into disciplinary actions and fired a dozen more for allegedly compromising and hijacking user accounts. Based on reports, these employees have taken over numerous user accounts on Facebook and Instagram. Moreover, the company also fired some of the waived employees that were...Continue Reading

Numerous social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, Twitter, and YouTube were suspended after the Turkish government restricted its citizens from complying with the nationwide broadcast ban. The suspension was executed after reports of a bomb blast within one of Istanbul’s busy streets began circulating on the internet last week. The Turkish explosion is...Continue Reading