Belgium has become the first European country to establish a national safe harbor framework for ethical hackers, announces the Centre for Cyber Security Belgium. The framework protects individuals or organisations from prosecution when they report security vulnerabilities. This mechanism’s conditions entail the vulnerable technology’s owner, the CCB, to be notified immediately, ensuring there is no fraudulent intent or intentions of harm, prohibition of public disclosure related to vulnerabilities without CCB’s permission.

Hackers are selling counterfeit phones with crypto-stealing malware
Kaspersky has identified thousands of low-cost Android smartphones sold online that come with preinstalled malware programmed to steal cryptocurrency details. The devices are infected with