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Google Adds New Scanner  Behavior-Based Malware To Every Android Device In order to keep its billions of users safe, Google has introduced another security defense for its Android devices, called  Google Play Protect . Google Play Protect, which is part of the Google Play Store app, uses machine learning and app usage analysis to weed out the dangerous and malicious apps, which have always been albatross around the tech giant's neck. Since Google Play Protect actually comes with the Google Play Store, users do not need to install or activate this security feature separately. Google Play Protect for Android devices consists: App scanning Anti-Theft Measures Browser Protection Play Protect's App Scanning Feature Google Play Protect is an always-on service on devices which said to scan 50 billion apps each day across a billion Android devices to ensure they are safe. Google already has a number of security measures in place to help keep your smartphones safe, including Verify App...

How to Hack a Credit Card in 6 Seconds, Experts Reveal As India attempts an upgrade to a cashless society, cyber security experts have raised serious concerns and revealed how to find credit card information – including expiration dates and CVV numbers – in just 6 Seconds. And what's more interesting? The hack uses nothing more than guesswork by querying multiple e-commerce sites. In a new research paper entitled "Does The Online Card Payment Landscape Unwittingly Facilitate Fraud?" published in the academic journal IEEE Security & Privacy, researchers from the University of Newcastle explains how online payments remain a weak spot in the credit card security which makes it easy for fraudsters to retrieve sensitive card information. The technique, dubbed Distributed Guessing Attack, can circumvent all the security features put in place to protect online payments from fraud. The similar technique is believed to be responsible for the hack of thousands of Tesco custome...

Massive ATM Hack Hits 3.2 Million Indian Debit Cards — Change Your PIN Now! India is undergoing the biggest data breaches to date with as many as 3.2 Million debit card   details reportedly stolen from multiple banks and financial platforms. The massive financial breach has hit India's biggest banks including State Bank of India (SBI), HDFC Bank, Yes Bank, ICICI Bank and Axis, and customers are advised to change their ATM PIN immediately. Hackers allegedly used malware to compromise the Hitachi Payment Services platform — which is used to power country's ATM, point-of-sale (PoS) machines and other financial transactions — and stole details of 3.2 Million debit cards,  reports  The Economic Times. Of 3.2 Million debit cards, 2.6 Million are powered by Visa or Mastercard and rest 600,000 work on top of India’s own RuPay platform. Hacked Debit Cards Reportedly Used in China It is not yet clear who is behind the cyber attack, but the report adds that a number of affected...

Researcher spots an ATM Skimmer while on vacation in Vienna We have heard a lot about ATM skimmers, but it's nearly impossible to spot one. Some skimmers are designed to look exactly like the card slot on the original machine and attached to the front, and others are completely hidden inside the ATM. But, during his vacation in Vienna, Austria, cyber security expert Benjamin Tedesco spotted an ATM skimmer that was totally unrecognizable. Tedesco was hanging out in Vienna and when about to draw some cash from a cash machine outside St. Stephen's Cathedral, he decided to do a quick visual inspection of the ATM machine and surprisingly spotted the dodgy device attached to it. Warning: Beware of Skimming Devices Installed on the ATM Vestibule Doors. That was a credit card skimmer – a perfect replica of the actual card reader that was designed to steal credit card information of users when they swipe their card to take off cash from the ATM. "Being security paranoid, I repeated...