News of the Cyber World

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Brave Browser might not be as secure as you once thought
https://www.netsparker.com/blog/web-secu...-security/

They tell you they block third party calls whenever they ask for scripts or connections to third party sites, etc. The truth is they have whitelisted pages like Facebook and Twitter by default saying that was a feature request. On the other hand it might not run third party scripts from Google... on the same page at least. It opens a new tab... Still, the exceptions list is hardcoded and you know what that means! You can't change that!
Brave can also track your mobile phone's IP addresses or more specifically, let Facebook do it without your consent. Nope, a dynamic IP address won't stop them from identifying you as the user.
And just in case you thought you could solve it a la Firefox, well, let me tell you that it has a weird version of third party scripts and buttons kind of settings. It mentions a few services like Facebook, Twitter, Google services including Hangouts, and LinkedIn, plus connecting with Tor. That's something that might also mean you could connect to the deep web or even the dark web if you choose so. Nope, there doesn't seem to show you if there are more websites whitelisted by default. Suspicious indeed. It also runs background apps even if you close the browser. You can disable it but you'd need to confirm there's nothing weird running in the task manager thereafter...
If you open Save-Point there, you'll soon notice our beloved search bar gets misplaced.  

Romania joins the list of countries that became the target of cyberattacks from hackers, hospitals were at risk!
https://www.cyberscoop.com/romania-ranso...ronavirus/
Hackers still relied on posing as government officials and send malicious emails to public health institutions that purported to contain information on So if you ever get a North Korean or Chinese or Russian or even Iranian version of it, well don't open it!

US Commerce Department tightens screws on Huawei export controls
https://www.cyberscoop.com/huawei-export...epartment/
Now US authorities won't let companies sell software to Huawei unless they buy a license from the US government first. Why did they approve such a measure? Because Huawei had found ways to circumvent the previous ones.

Scammers steal $10 million from Norway's Norfund, the largest sovereign wealth fund
https://www.cyberscoop.com/norfund-hacke...0-million/
I mention this because US said some hackers have stolen US$1.7 billion from US based companies and branch offices by impersonating the incumbent companies' employees like managers and others. Other countries affected by this sort of scam are Japan and Bangladesh.

CyberScoop also U.S. prosecutors have charged a Russian man with leasing accounts to a cybercriminal group that has haunted victims for years.

A few days earlier, some hackers told the world they had hacked Banco de Costa Rica's systems, it's one of the Costa Rican public banks... BCR for short denied their claims but they replied back that they actually did it and would keep posting data if they don't do anything to block them next time they wanted to hit them.