Telegram groups are being abused by fraudsters peddling fake COVID-19 vaccination cards to the unvaccinated and anti-vaxxer communities, according to security researchers.

A team of four cybersecurity professionals concluded that the ACT e-voting system errors did not impact any election outcomes, but could potentially sway future vote counts if left uncorrected.

According to researchers at Pradeo, the attack starts with a basic “smishing” gambit. If they fall for it and click, a message comes up asking them to update the Chrome app.

Windows users of Adobe Reader may be the only ones currently targeted. However, the bug affects eight versions of the software, including those running on Windows and macOS systems.

A database filled with the medical records of nearly 200,000 U.S. military veterans was exposed online by United Valor, a vendor working for the Veterans Administration, according to an analyst.

The "Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk" plugin is installed on more than 100,000 sites and is mainly used to weed out spam and trash comments on website discussion boards.

Innovative twists on banking scams and corporate-account hunters wielding increasingly clever lures, including fake COVID-19 vaccine promises, are likely to dominate the spam and phishing landscape.

Scripps Health, a hospital network based in San Diego, was hit by a cyberattack over the weekend, forcing some critical-care patients to be diverted, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.

All defenses against Spectre side-channel attacks can now be considered broken, leaving billions of computers and other devices just as vulnerable today as they were three years ago.

HPE is urging customers to patch its edge application management tools that could allow an attacker to carry out a remote authentication bypass attack and infiltrate a customer’s cloud infrastructure.