Google Confirms 6 in 10 Gmail Users Targeted by Email Scams
Why This Matters Google’s own survey shows that 61 % of people say they’ve been hit with email-based scams in the past year, and the majority of those attacks aimed straight at Gmail inboxes. At the same time, Google warns that “most users still rely on outdated log-ins like passwords and SMS 2FA,”…
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Voice-Phishing Crew Poses as IT Staff to Raid Salesforce Data
Google Spots a New Wave of Social Engineering Google’s threat-intelligence analysts have warned that a profit-driven hacking crew—tagged UNC6040—has been dialing company employees, pretending to be help-desk staff, and talking its way into corporate Salesforce accounts. According to a report shared…
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Chrome Add-Ons Leak Private Data in Their Code
Plain-Text Web Requests Leave Users Exposed When Symantec researcher Yuanjing Guo took a closer look at a handful of high-profile Google Chrome extensions, he discovered a surprisingly simple flaw: many of them still reach out to the internet over old-fashioned HTTP instead of secure HTTPS. That…
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Legitimate Remote Access Tool NetBird Abused in Sophisticated Phishing Wave
Fake Job Pitch Opens the Door Cyber-criminals have launched a fresh spear-phishing operation that zeroes in on chief financial officers and senior money managers at banks, insurers, power companies, and investment houses across Europe, Africa, Canada, the Middle East, and South Asia. The scheme…
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Fake AI Installers Spread Ransomware and Data-Wiping Malware
Bogus apps hide CyberLock and Lucky_Gh0$t ransomware A wave of counterfeit Fake AI Installers that pretend to be popular artificial-intelligence tools is making the rounds online, and security researchers warn that they are carrying far more than productivity promises. Analysts at Cisco…
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Fortinet Spots Windows Trojan That hides on File Headers
Damaged Headers Help Malware Slip Past Defenses Fortinet’s incident-response specialists have come across a Windows program that bends the rules of how executable files are supposed to look, and that twist lets it avoid quick detection. Instead of carrying normal Disk Operating System (DOS) and…
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Payroll Scam Uses SEO Tricks and Home Routers to Steal
A New Kind of Search‐Engine Trap Cyber-security specialists at ReliaQuest say they have uncovered a fresh wave of online fraud that hijacks search-engine results to trick employees into handing over their payroll passwords. The scheme, first spotted in May 2025 when it struck a large manufacturing…
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Protecting Children on the Web: Understanding the Risks and How to Respond
Protecting Children on the Web The internet is woven into nearly every part of daily life, and for young people it can feel as natural as breathing. Yet the websites, games, and social platforms that keep kids entertained and connected also expose them to dangers that parents and guardians may not…
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Fake Kling AI Ads on Facebook Spread Malware Through Bogus Websites
How the ruse starts on social media Early this year, Facebook and Instagram users began seeing what looked like perfectly normal sponsored posts for Kling AI, an image-and-video generator launched by Beijing-based Kuaishou Technology in June 2024. The service has drawn more than 22 million users as…
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Chrome 136 Patches Active Data-Leak Bug
A fast patch for a sneaky cross-origin loophole Google has pushed an emergency update to the stable channel of its Chrome browser after a security researcher demonstrated a simple trick that lets one website siphon off information meant for another. The glitch, catalogued as CVE-2025-4664, sits…
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