A new variant of the Mirai Internet of Things (IoT) botnet has emerged, which features new exploits in its arsenal and distributing a new bot, Fortinet researchers warn. Called Wicked, based on strings found in the code, the malware has added three new exploits compared to Mirai and appears to […]
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ISOC Tunisie vient d’annoncer l’élection de son nouveau bureau sous la présidence de Mr. Haythem El Mir, pour un mandat de deux ans, succédant à Mr. Mondher Laabidi et Mr. Khaled Koubaa qui était le premier président fondateur. Il est à rappeler que ISOC est une organisation internationale fondée en 1992 […]
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The Panda banking trojan, a spin-off from the infamous Zeus malware, is widening its net to attack more than just financial services targets, as seen in three ongoing campaigns discovered in May. The Windows-focused Panda is far from the cuddly thing its name would suggest. It has a full arsenal […]
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A group of European security researchers have released a warning about a set of vulnerabilities affecting users of PGP and S/MIME. EFF has been in communication with the research team, and can confirm that these vulnerabilities pose an immediate risk to those using these tools for email communication, including the potential exposure […]
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The Nigelthorn malware has already infected over 100,000 systems in 100 countries by abusing a Google Chrome extension called Nigelify. A new strain of malware, dubbed Nigelthorn malware because it abuses a Google Chrome extension called Nigelify, has already infected over 100,000 systems in 100 countries, most of them in the Philippines, Venezuela, and […]
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Several banks in Mexico have experienced large cash transfers in recent weeks after cyber-criminals infiltrated some financial institutions which led to unauthorized transactions, as claimed by the central bank in an interview with Bloomberg. Banco de Mexico has zeroed in on 5 financial institutions that have had their external connection to […]
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Trello, when an error in the publishing strategy is able to put at risk the private data of a huge community of unaware users. A “Security enthusiastic” found a vulnerability in the Trello web management and now with a simple dork is possible to query to mine passwords from dozens […]
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Intel may be facing as many as eight new Spectre-level vulnerabilities in its chips, a new report alleges. The report comes months after the Spectre and Meltdown flaws first rocked the silicon industry in early 2018. German magazine c’t reported on Thursday that the new security flaws in Intel CPUs have been […]
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A pair of Romanian hackers have been extradited to the U.S. after allegedly bilking unwitting victims out of more than $18 million in an elaborate voice- and SMS-phishing (i.e., vishing/smishing) scheme. Teodor Laurentiu Costea and Robert Codrut Dumitrescu were named in the 31-count federal grand jury indictment on August 16 […]
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Security researchers are reporting that malicious Android apps they have detected and reported to Google the first time, have slipped back into the Play Store after changing their name. Seven of these apps have been « rediscovered, » said Symantec in a report published yesterday. The company’s experts say the author of […]
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