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2018-06-21 03:51:03 | Sixteen Arrested After Deploying Coinminers Across Internet Cafes in 30 Cities (lien direct) | Chinese police have arrested 16 employees of a local IT company on charges of hacking after deploying cryptocurrency miners on thousands of computers at Internet cafes in 30 cities. [...] | |||
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2018-06-21 00:40:00 | New SamSam Variant Requires Special Password Before Infection (lien direct) | New versions of the SamSam ransomware will not execute unless the person running the malware's payload enters a special password via the command-line. [...] | |||
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2018-06-20 17:06:01 | Microsoft Edge Bug Exposes Content From Other Sites via HTML5 Audio Tag (lien direct) | A weird Edge bug that was fixed earlier this month, allows a malicious website to retrieve content from other sites by playing audio files in a malformed manner that produces unintended consequences. [...] | |||
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2018-06-20 15:04:02 | Microsoft Releases Microsoft News App as it Rebrands its News Aggregation Engine (lien direct) | Microsoft announced today that it's news aggregation service that powers MSN has been rebranded as Microsoft News. This engine is used to display a list of curated news stories gathered from more than a thousand publishers, which is then aggregated in their MSN news feeds and in their Microsoft News app for Android and iOS. [...] | |||
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2018-06-20 13:27:05 | Google Updates File Signature Checks for Android Apps (lien direct) | Google is changing how the Play Store app is verifying the authenticity of Android apps before installation. The company plans to modify the header of APK (Android app) files to include a new metadata field that contains the app's file signature. [...] | |||
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2018-06-20 12:13:00 | Steam Blocks Dutch Users from Trading CS:GO and Dota 2 Items To Avoid Legal Action (lien direct) | As of yesterday, Dutch owners of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2 are being greeted with a news message on Steam stating that they are no longer allowed to trade or perform marketplace transfers for items related to these games. This is due to Dutch law that found certain Loot Boxes to be considered gambling. [...] | |||
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2018-06-20 11:23:03 | Hacking Forum Ad Peddles New Kardon Loader Malware (lien direct) | Security researchers have spotted a new commercial malware product that's been put up for sale on hacking forums for the lowly price of only $50, paid in Bitcoin. Named Kardon Loader, this is a new malware strain, currently still under development, in a "beta" stage according to its author. [...] | |||
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2018-06-20 08:18:01 | Google, Roku, Sonos to Fix DNS Rebinding Attack Vector (lien direct) | The developer teams from Google Home, Roku TV, and Sonos, are preparing security patches to prevent DNS rebinding attacks on their devices. Roku has already started deploying updates, while Google and Sonos are expected to deploy patches next month. [...] | |||
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2018-06-20 06:23:03 | Get 95% off The Complete Raspberry Pi Hacker Bundle Deal (lien direct) | In this deal you get access to 4Â courses on how to get started and program using the Raspberry Pi, NodeMCU, and more. This course is normally priced at $384, but has been discounted 95% as part of this deal to $19. [...] | |||
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2018-06-20 04:00:00 | Bithumb Hacked Second Time in a Year. Hackers Steal $31 Million (lien direct) | For the second time in a year, South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has been hacked, and this time around, hackers stole the equivalent of 35 billion won ($31.6 million) worth of cryptocurrency. [...] | Bithumb | ||
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2018-06-19 19:16:03 | OpenBSD Disables Intel CPU Hyper-Threading Due to Security Concerns (lien direct) | The OpenBSD project announced today plans to disable support for Intel CPU hyper-threading due to security concerns regarding the theoretical threat of more "Spectre-class bugs." [...] | |||
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2018-06-19 18:35:01 | Chinese Hackers Target Satellite, Geospatial Imaging, Defense Companies (lien direct) | A cyber-espionage group believed to be operating out of China hacked companies who develop satellite communications, geospatial imaging, and defense contractors from both United States and Southeast Asia. [...] | |||
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2018-06-19 18:16:03 | VirusTotal Monitor Alerts You When Your Program Has False Positives (lien direct) | VirusTotal announced today a new paid service called "VirusTotal Monitor" that will alert subscribers when their program have been detected by antivirus vendors as malware. This allows developers & the antivirus vendor to be immediately notified in order to quickly clean up the incorrect detection, or false positive, in the program. [...] | |||
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2018-06-19 17:10:04 | Bumbling Hacker "Bitcoin Baron" Sentenced to 20 Months in Prison (lien direct) | A hacker once considered "the Internet's most inept criminal" received on Monday a prison sentence of 20 months in prison for launching DDoS attacks against the city of Madison, Wisconsin âattacks which caused delays and outages to various municipality services, including its 911 emergency call center. [...] | |||
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2018-06-19 13:36:00 | ZeroFont Technique Lets Phishing Emails Bypass Office 365 Security Filters (lien direct) | Cyber-criminals are currently using a trick that allows them to bypass Microsoft's security filters and deliver spam and phishing emails to Office 365 email accounts. [...] | |||
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2018-06-19 11:22:01 | TRON Cryptocurrency Founder Acquires BitTorrent (lien direct) | Jason Sun, the man behind the TRON (TRX) cryptocurrency, has reportedly agreed to buy the company behind the BitTorrent technology, the eponymous client, and the uTorrent client. [...] | |||
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2018-06-19 08:39:00 | Malware That Hit Pyeongchang Olympics Deployed in New Attacks (lien direct) | Olympic Destroyer, the malware that hit Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics, is still alive and infecting new victims, according to a report published earlier today by Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Labs. [...] | |||
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2018-06-19 06:31:02 | Over 22,000 Container Orchestration Systems Connected to the Internet (lien direct) | The admin consoles of over 22,000 container orchestration and API management systems are currently exposed online, according to a report published on Monday by Lacework, a company specialized in cloud security. [...] | |||
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2018-06-19 04:37:01 | Senate Votes to Reimpose ZTE Ban Despite President Trump\'s Efforts (lien direct) | The US Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) yesterday that includes a clause to reinstate a ban on Chinese hardware vendor ZTE. [...] | |||
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2018-06-18 17:05:02 | Upcoming iOS 12 Will Share Emergency Location With 911 Services (lien direct) | Apple announced today that the next version of the iOS operating system âiOS 12â would automatically and securely share a caller's geo-location with 911 emergency services across the US. [...] | |||
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2018-06-18 12:31:04 | 75% of Malware Uploaded on “No-Distribute” Scanners Is Unknown to Researchers (lien direct) | Three-quarters of malware samples uploaded to "no-distribute scanners" are never shared on "multiscanners" like VirusTotal, and hence, they remain unknown to security firms and researchers for longer periods of time. [...] | |||
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2018-06-18 09:00:00 | Vendor Patches Seven Vulnerabilities Across 392 Camera Models (lien direct) | Axis Communications AB, a Swedish manufacturer of network cameras for physical security and video surveillance, has patched seven security flaws across nearly 400 security camera models. [...] | |||
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2018-06-18 08:00:00 | macOS Breaks Your OpSec by Caching Data From Encrypted Hard Drives (lien direct) | Apple's macOS surreptitiously creates and caches thumbnails for images and other file types stored on password-protected / encrypted containers (hard drives, partitions), according to Wojciech ReguÅa and Patrick Wardle, two macOS security experts. [...] | |||
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2018-06-18 05:00:00 | Rootkit-Based Adware Wreaks Havoc Among Windows 10 Users in the US (lien direct) | Security researchers from Romania-based antivirus vendor Bitdefender have detailed the operations of an adware strain named Zacinlo that uses a rootkit component to gain persistence across OS reinstalls, a rootkit component that's even effective against Windows 10 installations. [...] | |||
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2018-06-17 21:31:03 | Andy OS Android Emulator Reportedly Installing a GPU Miner (lien direct) | Reports are coming in that a GPU Miner Trojan is being installed along with the popular Andy Android emulator and its users are rightfully concerned. This miner reportedly will use the graphics processing unit, or GPU, on the computer's graphic's card in order to mine cryptocurrency. [...] | |||
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2018-06-17 07:17:01 | Gaming Companies Remove Analytics App After Massive User Outcry (lien direct) | Several gaming companies have announced plans to remove support for an analytics app they have bundled with their games. The decision to remove the app came after several Reddit and Steam users noticed that many game publishers have recently embedded a controversial analytics SDK part of recent updates to their games. [...] | |||
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2018-06-16 03:56:01 | Android App Devs Find Clever Trick for Fooling Users Into Installing Their Crapware (lien direct) | An expert in Android security is warning users that some developers of crappy Android apps have come up with a new trick for fooling users into installing their apps. [...] | |||
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2018-06-15 18:56:03 | Europol Dismantles One of the Internet\'s Oldest Hacker Groups (lien direct) | Europol, French, UK, and Thai police arrested eight people they suspect to have been involved or to have been part of a notorious hacker group known as Rex Mundi (Latin for "King of the World"). [...] | |||
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2018-06-15 17:26:04 | The Week in Ransomware - June 15th 2018 - DBGer, Scarab, and More (lien direct) | Mostly new variants of the same ransomware this week, with little new ransomware campaigns being conducted. Of particular interest was Kaspersky temporarily withdrawing their participation in the NoMoreRansom project and the rebranding of Satan Ransomware as DBGer Ransomware. [...] | |||
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2018-06-15 16:42:03 | All That Port 8000 Traffic This Week! Yeah, That\'s Satori Looking for New Bots (lien direct) | The mystery of the recent surge in port 8000 scan activity has been solved today by security researches from Qihoo 360 Netlab, who tracked this week's mystery traffic to an old foe âthe Satori IoT botnet. [...] | Satori | ||
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2018-06-15 16:12:03 | Police Use of Minority Report-Style Pre-Crime Tech Raises Inaccuracy Concerns (lien direct) | Pre-crime, is a vast potpourri of information, on everyday activities, used to try to predict and prevent future behavior. In "predictive" policing, computer algorithms identify signs of pre-crime in a realm in which we are all potential suspects. [...] | |||
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2018-06-15 12:21:04 | Hacker Breaches Syscoin GitHub Account and Poisons Official Client (lien direct) | A hacker gained access to the GitHub account of the Syscoin cryptocurrency and replaced the official Windows client with a version containing malware. The poisoned Syscoin Windows client contained Arkei Stealer, a malware strain specialized in dumping and stealing passwords and wallet private keys. [...] | |||
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2018-06-15 10:00:01 | Chinese Cyber-Espionage Group Hacked Government Data Center (lien direct) | A Chinese-linked cyber-espionage unit has hacked a data center belonging to a Central Asian country and has embedded malicious code on government sites. The hack of the data center happened sometime in mid-November 2017, according to a report published by Kaspersky Lab earlier this week. [...] | |||
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2018-06-15 05:27:02 | Clipboard Hijacker Targeting Bitcoin & Ethereum Users Infects Over 300,0000 PCs (lien direct) | A malware campaign spreading a clipboard hijacker has infected over 300,000 computers, according to Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 Total Security. The campaign has been raging for the past week and has spread a malware which Qihoo researchers have named ClipboardWalletHijacker. [...] | |||
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2018-06-14 19:24:03 | Decryptor Released for the Everbe Ransomware (lien direct) | A decryptor for the Everbe Ransomware was released by Michael Gillespie and Maxime Meignan that allows victims to get their files back for free. It is not known how this ransomware is currently being distributed, but as long as victims have an unencrypted version of an encrypted file, they can use them to brute force the decryption [...] | |||
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2018-06-14 18:03:01 | Following Chrome\'s Lead, Microsoft Edge Also Moves to Block Autoplay Videos (lien direct) | The Microsoft Edge browser will gain the ability to block auto-playing media, such as sounds and web videos. The feature was announced today for Edge browsers part of Insiders program, Microsoft's testing ground for new Windows 10 features. [...] | |||
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2018-06-14 15:56:04 | Windows 10 Insider Build 17692 Released. Here\'s Whats New! (lien direct) | Today Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17692 (Redstone 5) to insiders in the fast and skip ahead rings. This build adds a bunch of new features such as SwiftKey becoming the new touch keyboard, Edge getting autoplay video controls, search improvements, and more. [...] | |||
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2018-06-14 14:43:03 | Microsoft\'s SwiftKey Is Becoming the New Touch Keyboard in Windows 10 (lien direct) | With today's release of Windows Insider Build 17692, Microsoft announced that their Swiftkey keyboard application will now become the touch keyboard for Windows 10. Using Swiftkey, users will get autocorrection and predictive typing in multiple languages as the application learns a particular user's writing style. [...] | |||
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2018-06-14 13:40:03 | DBGer Ransomware Uses EternalBlue and Mimikats to Spread Across Networks (lien direct) | The authors of the Satan ransomware have rebranded their "product" and they now go by the name of DBGer ransomware, according to security researcher MalwareHunter, who spotted this new version earlier today. [...] | |||
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2018-06-14 11:12:03 | Dark Web Drug Vendor Pleads Guilty After Feds Traced His Bitcoin Transactions (lien direct) | Gal Vallerius, a 36-year-old French national pleaded guilty this week in the US of selling narcotics on the Dark Web under the nickname of OxyMonster. [...] | Guideline | ||
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2018-06-14 07:47:01 | New MysteryBot Android Malware Packs a Banking Trojan, Keylogger, and Ransomware (lien direct) | Cybercriminals are currently developing a new strain of malware targeting Android devices which blends the features of a banking trojan, keylogger, and mobile ransomware. [...] | |||
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2018-06-14 00:30:00 | Microsoft Fixes Faulty Debian Package That Messed With Users\' Settings (lien direct) | Microsoft fixed yesterday a faulty Debian package that was messing with users' OS settings during its installation routine. The faulty package that was causing all the problems was Open R v3.5. Open R is an enhanced version of the R programming language maintained by Microsoft. [...] | |||
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2018-06-13 23:09:05 | New Lazy FP State Restore Vulnerability Affects All Intel Core CPUs (lien direct) | What a horrible year in security for Intel. First we had the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities that never seem to go away. Now Intel has announced a new speculative execution side channel vulnerability involving "Lazy FP state restore" that could allow a malicious program to read data being used by other processes. [...] | |||
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2018-06-13 18:50:02 | Steam Will No Longer Support Windows XP and Vista in 2019 (lien direct) | In what many would consider overdue, Steam will no longer support the Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems starting on January 1st 2019. [...] | |||
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2018-06-13 17:55:05 | Kaspersky Halts Europol and NoMoreRansom Project Coop After EU Parliament Vote (lien direct) | Kaspersky Lab announced today that it was temporarily halting its cooperation with Europol following the voting of a controversial motion in the European Parliament today. [...] | |||
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2018-06-13 15:30:03 | Microsoft Explains Whether a Vulnerability Turns Into a Windows Security Update (lien direct) | Microsoft has released the criteria used to determine whether a reported and confirmed vulnerability is resolved through a security update or in the next version of Windows. These criteria were released in order to provide insight into the decision making progress and to receive feed back from security researchers. [...] | |||
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2018-06-13 14:40:04 | 17 Backdoored Docker Images Removed From Docker Hub (lien direct) | The Docker team has pulled 17 Docker container images that have been backdoored and used to install reverse shells and cryptocurrency miners on users' servers for the past year. [...] | |||
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2018-06-13 11:12:01 | UK Retailer Says Hacker Accessed 5.9Mil Card Details, 1.2Mil User Records (lien direct) | UK-based electronics retailer Dixons Carphone, the company behind the Currys PC World, OneStopPhoneShop, and Carphone Warehouse brands, announced a security incident earlier today. [...] | |||
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2018-06-09 03:41:01 | Microsoft Store Brings Remote App Install to Windows 10 With "Install on my devices" (lien direct) | Microsoft has added a new feature to the web version of the Microsoft Store called called "Install on my devices" that allows you to install an app on Windows 10 devices where you have an account. Similar to Google Play, this allows you to install apps on devices from the web, even if your not accessing the store from Windows 10. [...] | |||
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2018-06-08 18:40:03 | F-Secure Fixes Serious Vulnerability in Antivirus Products (lien direct) | F-Secure has fixed a severe vulnerability in its home and enterprise antivirus products that could have allowed an attacker to execute malicious code on the user's machine and take over affected PCs [...] |
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