Google has removed 21 malicious apps from the official Play Store because they were found to serve intrusive and annoying ads. Google has removed 21 new malicious apps from the official Play Store because they were found displaying intrusive ads. The following malicious apps were spotted by researchers from cybersecurity firm Avast: Shoot ThemCrush

Immigration law firm Fragomen has disclosed a data breach that exposed current and former Google employees’ personal information. Immigration law firm Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP, one of the most prominent US law firms covering immigration law, disclosed a data breach. The security breach exposed current and former Google employee

Immigration law firm Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP has disclosed a data breach that exposed current and former Google employees' personal information.Fragomen is one of the USA's largest law firms covering immigration law, with over 582 attorneys in 47 locations worldwide.Data breach exposes US employment formsIn a "Notice of Data Breach" sent

byPaul DucklinThis week: the DOJ’s attempt to reignite the Battle to Break Encryption; the story of the Russian hackers behind the Sandworm Team; a zero-day bug just patched in Chrome; and (oh no!) why your vocabulary needs the word “restore” even more than it needs “backup”.Presenters: Kimberly Truong, Doug Aamoth and Paul Duck

Starting with Chrome 86, Google is automatically hiding website notification spam on sites showing a pattern of sending abusive notification content to visitors.The "quiet notification permission UI" used to hide the web alert spam from users was introduced in Chrome 80 and improved in Chrome 84 with the addition of auto-enrollment in the notification anti-s

Google has released Chrome version 86.0.4240.111 that also addresses the CVE-2020-15999 flaw which is an actively exploited zero-day. Google has released Chrome version 86.0.4240.111 that includes security fixes for several issues, including a patch for an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-15999. The CVE-2020-15999 flaw is a

Google has released Chrome 86.0.4240.111 today, October 20th, 2020, to the Stable desktop channel to address five security vulnerabilities, one of them an actively exploited zero-day bug."Google is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2020-15999 exists in the wild," the Google Chrome 86.0.4240.111 announcement reads.This version

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at journalism’s role in cybersecurity on our Lock and Code podcast, gave tips for safer shopping on Amazon Prime day, and discussed an APT attack springing into life as Academia returned to the real and virtual campus environment. We also dug into potential FIFA 21 scams, the return of QR code scams, Covid fatigue, a

A bug in the latest release of Chrome, and other Chromium-based browsers, is causing random debug.log files to be created on user's desktops and other folders.On October 6th, 2020, Google released Chrome 86 to the 'Stable' branch, and all users were auto-updated to this version. Other browsers based on Chromium, such as Brave and Microsoft Edge, also up

Google delivered over 33,000 alerts to its users during the first three quarters of 2020 to warn them of state-sponsored phishing attacks targeting their accounts."In these cases, we also shared our findings with the campaigns and the Federal Bureau of Investigation," Shane Huntley, Director at Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG), said.The prominent reminde

Google improves malware protection for Google Chrome users who are covered by the company’s Advanced Protection Program (APP). The Advanced Protection Program aims at protecting users with high visibility and sensitive information (i.e. activists, journalists, and political parties), who are exposed to the risk of targeted attacks. Google announced

Google has added improved malware protection for all Google Chrome users who are also enrolled in the company's Advanced Protection Program (APP).Google's Advanced Protection Program is a free service that aims to protect the accounts of users including but not limited to activists, journalists, business leaders, and political teams who h

Google has released Chrome 86 today, October 6th, 2020, to the Stable desktop channel, and it includes numerous security enhancements, features, and APIs for developers.Chrome 86 brings many security enhancements to both desktop and mobile users in the form of increased password security, protection from insecure downloads and form submissions, and

Google has released a temporary fix for a ChromeOS bug that causes 100% CPU utilization in Chromebooks.Last week, BleepingComputer broke the story that the ChromeOS 85.0.4183.108 update caused Google Play's 'com.android.vending:download_service' service to utilize 100% of the CPU.According to Google, the bug is caused by a missing file be

Google today announced the launch of a new program specifically designed to deal with security vulnerabilities the company finds in third-party Android devices and software serviced by Android OEMs."Google’s Android Security & Privacy team has launched the Android Partner Vulnerability Initiative (APVI) to manage security issues specific