I am seeing quite an aggressive phishing campaign against Bank of America arriving overnight UK time. They all pretend to come from Bank of America < BankofAmerica@customerloyalty.accounts.com > but are actually coming from various servers. I have posted details of 2 that I received. The emails are identical apart for […]
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Tavis Ormandy, an IT security researcher at Google’s Project Zero has identified a critical flaw in Transmission BitTorrent app that if exploited lets attackers take full control of a targeted computer on Linux or Windows operating system. Ormandy warned that the flaw (CVE-2018-5702) is present in Transmission Function that allows attackers to control […]
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Security researchers from Kaspersky have found one of the most powerful strains of Android spyware that enable attackers to take full control over the infected devices remotely. The new spyware has been called Skygofree, it has been created for targeted surveillance. The researchers traced down indication of Skygofree’s activity back […]
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As the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is surging, the cybercriminal community is exploring the opportunity to steal user funds as every now and then there are incidents involving hackers targeting unsuspecting investors by hacking an exchange and a wallet. The latest victim of a hack attack against cryptocurrencies is the […]
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Researcher @unixfreaxjp spotted the first time ever in the history of computer engineering a Linux malware designed to infect ARC CPU, this new Linux ELF malware was dubbed MIRAI OKIRU. In August 2016 the researcher @unixfreaxjp from @MalwareMustDie team first spotted the dreaded Mirai botnet, now the same researcher is announcing a new […]
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This year’s first bad news for OnePlus users—a large number of OnePlus customers are reporting of fraudulent credit card transactions after buying products from the Chinese smartphone manufacturer’s official online store. The claim initially surfaced on the OnePlus support forum over the weekend from a customer who said that two […]
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The Police are supposed to protect and serve but Taiwanese police in the news for distributing malware-infected USB sticks to the winners of a cybersecurity-related quiz during a conference hosted by the Presidential Office in December 2017. According to reports, the National Police – the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CBI) awarded 250 USB sticks with 8GB of […]
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It has been a matter of days when we found out about the flaws in AMD, ARM and Intel’s computer microchips that allowed attackers to carry out Spectre and Meltdown attacks. Since these microchips are widely used in almost all desktops/laptops, smartphones and tablets, therefore, the discovery sent out shockwaves […]
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The malware is potentially a rehash of an old Windows DNS hijacker. A researcher has discovered a strain of malware in the wild which targets Mac OS X users. The malware, dubbed MaMi, was first spotted by security researcher Patrick Wardle. The researcher spotted a forum post on Malwarebytes in […]
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Another day, another Monero cryptomining campaign and this time attackers exploited a security flaw in Oracle Fusion Middleware. Latest SANS Technology Institute report published on 7 January is more like a bombshell for cryptocurrency industry. It reveals the findings of Morphus Labs researcher Renato Marinho, according to which a new globally active […]
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