Ethereum DeFi system Polygon has announced that it patched a critical vulnerability that stood to put some $24 billion of its MATIC coins at risk. The company kept the issue quiet for weeks as it worked to patch it out.
Proposed CBDC from India's central bank, which could get a test run in 2022, has some concerned about the implications for privacy. The "digital rupee" pilot could launch as early as April.
ReasonLabs researchers warned that a 'Spider-Man: No Way Home’ illegal download was a torrent malware containing a persistent Monero crypto miner.
Recent amendment to India's election laws enables the government to link the Aadhar national identification system to voter rolls, raising worries that voter ID may be used for privacy invasion.
CISA released its customized Log4Shell scanning solution and a list of other third-party scanners. However, all the Log4j scanners tested by Rezilion failed to detect all file formats.
China has announced new requirements for companies that might pose a "national security" threat, chiefly those that have large stockpiles of personal data that might wind up being transferred overseas.
A new and quickly growing segment of fraud scams, so-called "targeted links," blend in elements of digital marketing such as targeted advertising and participation in legitimate ad networks.
US and UK have dispatched cyber warfare advisors to Ukraine to prepare for potential cyber attacks. The prospect is not unprecedented, as Russia has disabled Ukrainian power stations before.
Alibaba's security team was the first to discover the Log4j vulnerability. Though Alibaba Cloud was not compromised, the company is nevertheless facing consequences for failing to notify Chinese regulators within two days as required by new laws passed in September 2021.
UK law enforcement has shared over half a million compromised passwords found in cloud storage with Have I Been Pwned. The headline item is that over one-third of these passwords (about 225 million) have not been logged before.
