2018 – Page 49

Alerte au sujet de faux mails promettant un remboursement de l’assurance-maladie

Haythem Elmir 8 ans ago

Les messages frauduleux demandent à leurs destinataires de transmettre des coordonnées bancaires, ce que ne fait jamais la véritable assurance-maladie. La nouvelle est trop belle pour être vraie : cybermalveillance.gouv.fr, organe gouvernemental notamment chargé de prévenir des arnaques sur internet, a alerté sur de faux mails de l’assurance-maladie, lundi 11 juin. Ces messages affirment à […]

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Ex-CIA Employee Charged with Leak of Classified CIA Vault 7 Hacking Tools

Haythem Elmir 8 ans ago

The Department of Justice has announced new charges against former CIA software engineer Joshua Schulte for allegedly leaking classified CIA documents, software projects, and hacking utilities called Vault 7 to WikiLeaks. Schulte was charged on August 24, 2017 with possession of child pornography, but was also believed to be the source of the embarrassing […]

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Hacking more than 400 Axis camera models by chaining 3 flaws

Haythem Elmir 8 ans ago

Researchers from cybersecurity firm VDOO have discovered several vulnerabilities affecting nearly 400 security cameras from Axis Communications. Researchers from cybersecurity firm VDOO have conducted a study on IoT devices and discovered seven vulnerabilities in cameras manufactured by Axis Communications. According to the vendor, nearly 400 models are affected by the […]

DHS, FBI published a join alert including technical details of Hidden Cobra-linked ‘Typeframe’ Malware

Haythem Elmir 8 ans ago

The US DHS and the FBI have published a new joint report that includes technical details of a piece of malware allegedly used by the Hidden Cobra APT. A new joint report published by US DHS and FBI made the headlines, past document details TTPs associated with North Korea-linked threat groups, tracked […]

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Dixons Carphone data breach – millions put at risk of fraud

Haythem Elmir 8 ans ago

Once again a large company has suffered a huge data breach, putting millions of innocent customers at risk. Customers of British popular high street stores Currys PC World, Carphone Warehouse, and Dixons Travel have been warned that a huge data breach has occurred involving 5.9 million payment cards and the […]

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Two Critical flaws affect Schneider Electric U.motion Builder. Patch them now!

Haythem Elmir 8 ans ago

Schneider Electric has patched last week four flaws affecting the U.motion Builder software, including two critical command execution vulnerabilities. Schneider Electric U.motion Builder is a tool designed for creating projects for U.motion devices that are used in critical manufacturing, energy, and commercial facilities industries. “This exploit occurs when the submitted data of […]

Rootkit-Based Adware Wreaks Havoc Among Windows 10 Users in the US

Haythem Elmir 8 ans ago

When it was released back in 2015, one of the main perks of Windows 10 was the improved security features that made it harder for rootkits to get a foothold on Microsoft’s new OS. But three years later, security researchers from Romania-based antivirus vendor Bitdefender say they’ve discovered a new […]

Banco de Chile admits losing $10 million in disk-wiping malware attack

Haythem Elmir 8 ans ago

Banco de Chile, the second largest bank in the country, released a public statement confirming a major malware attack that breached its computer systems on May 24, shutting down bank operations. The hackers used a disk-wiping malware to cause the outage in order to distract attention from their original target – the […]

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Quick Heal detects 2 banking Trojans targeting Indian Android users

Haythem Elmir 8 ans ago

IT company Quick Heal on Tuesday warned that two new banking trojans (malware designed to steal financial data) targeting Android are hitting users in India to access confidential data. The Trojans, named “Android.Marcher.C » and « Android.Asacub.T », operate by exploiting user behaviour of android mobile users and imitating notifications from leading banking […]

Satori botnet is back again, experts observed a surge in port scan activity associated with it

Haythem Elmir 8 ans ago

This week, security experts observed a surge in port 8000 scan activity, researchers at Qihoo 360 Netlab determined that the unusual activity was associated with Satori IoT botnet. Experts from Qihoo 360 Netlab discovered that the author of the Satori botnet have integrated a the proof-of-concept (PoC) code for the XionMai web server software package after it was […]