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Hackers claim to leak 487 million WhatsApp users’ data

A pirate on a “dark net” platform offered 487 million WhatsApp users’ data for sale. According to their publication, the data belongs to users in 84 countries, including Egypt, with more than 44 million phone numbers, Meta’s co-owner had not commented on this claim yet. If leaks are proven, data may be used in fraud […]

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Urgent update for Chrome Browser

Google has issued security updates to fix a vulnerability in Chrome browser, a vulnerability type is “Zero-day”, and tracked as CVE-2022-4135. Users are advised to update to versions: 107.0.5304.121 for Mac and Linux operating systems, and 107.0.5304.121/122 for Windows . “Zero-day” is a broad term that describes recently discovered security vulnerabilities that hackers can use […]

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400 Apps steal Facebook users’ Login Credentials

Meta has identified more than 400 app stores on Android and ios phones, stealing Login Credentials for Facebook  users’ accounts. Apps steal users’ accounts through the “Login with Facebook” function, which when pressed generates a page that looks like a Facebook login page. Harm Apps offer functions such as VPNs, games, image modification.. and other […]

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Hackers claim to leak Egyptian banks’ customer data

An account called ‘EG LEAKS’ on one of the pirate forums on the ‘Deep web’ related to the sale and purchase of data and apps vulnerabilities, published data for 500 clients including their names, addresses and the names of their banks, and declared it to be a sample of more than 134,000 customers, including personal […]

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WhatsApp releases a security update

WhatsApp released a major update to iPhone and Android phones to treat two security flaws that allow the attacker to hack the victim’s phone and implant malware through video calls, or by sending a video to the victim’s phone. The flaws was given the CVE identifier CVE-2022-36934 with score 9.8 out of 10, which means […]

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