Tag: COVID-19
US Small Businesses Targeted With COVID-19 Themed Phishing Attacks
With the Western hemisphere turning to cold months, cases of COVID-19 and cyberattacks based on it tend to grow gradually.
Phishing campaigns are one such...
Foxconn Temporarily Shutdown Two Chinese Factories Citing COVID-19
After noting some COVID-19 cases on the site, Foxconn has temporarily closed two of its factories near Shanghai, China.
Foxconn is one of the major...
Foxconn Temporarily Shutdown its Shenzhen Manufacturing Plant
Foxconn, the manufacturing giant that makes smartphones of most tech giants like Apple, has shut its Shenzhen plant down.
This is due to the cautious...
Spotify to Put Advisory Labels on Content-Based on COVID-19
After facing enough heat from the community and losing market value, Spotify is finally doing something to tackle COVID-19 misinformation on its platform.
This is...
Omicron Based Phishing Campaign in Wild, Stealing PII and Banking Details
The UK consumer watchdog - Which? has detailed a new phishing campaign based on the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron.
The ongoing campaign targets people in...
Google Pay Gains Ability to Store Your COVID-19 Vaccine Details
Google has added support for storing COVID-19 certificates in users' Google Pay devices, with the support of Passes API.
The support was extended to let...
Google Criticized For Installing a COVID-19 Tracing App in Users Phones Without Their Consent
Last week, the natives of Massachusetts found the official COVID-19 tracing app from their state government being installed in their Android phones, by Google,...
Fake Database Selling 150 Million Indians COVID-19 Vaccination Data in Wild
Weeks after few Indian companies experiencing data breaches, fake news about the CoWIN portal being hacked is circulating among the citizens.
This comes after few...
Vitalik Buterin, Co-Founder of ETH Donated Over $1 Billion to India’s COVID-Crypto Fund
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, has just donated over a billion dollars to India's COVID-Crypto Relief Fund to help the country fight the...
Facebook Adds a COVID-19 Vaccine Finder Tool in its App to Help Indians
Apart from the $10 million grant announced by Facebook, social media is now helping Indians with the related vaccination information they needed. In partnership...