Week in security with Tony Anscombe

ESET research into Gamaredon’s tricks – A flawed online voting platform – Massive hack-for-hire campaigns

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FBI warns about fraudsters targeting banking app users

Watch out for attacks attempting to take advantage of the lockdown-induced surge in mobile banking use

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Gamaredon group grows its game

Active APT group adds cunning remote template injectors for Word and Excel documents; unique Outlook mass-mailing macro

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Vast hack‑for‑hire scheme targeted thousands of people, organizations

An obscure Indian company operated a scheme targeting banks, non-profits, politicians and journalists all over the world, a report says

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Microsoft ships hefty patch load this month

The latest Patch Tuesday knocks out a record-high number of vulnerabilities, including new bugs in the SMB protocol

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Alarm sounded over security risks in online voting system

Bad actors could tamper with ballots cast via OmniBallot without being detected by voters, election officials or the tool’s developer, a study finds

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Apple hopes to bolster password security with open source project

The tech giant wants developers of password managers to collaborate for better user experience and security

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Week in security with Tony Anscombe

A deep-clean of your Facebook history – Google’s Advanced Protection-Nest integration – Talking to your kids before they join social media

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How secure is your phone’s lock screen?

From the humble passcode to biometric authentication, there are quite a few options to lock your Android phone. But which of them are more secure than the others?

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Mozilla fixes high‑risk Firefox flaws, bug in DoH feature

The browser maker rolls out updates on back-to-back days, including a patch to avoid unintentionally overloading DNS providers

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