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Microsoft Issues Security Patch Update for 14 New Critical Vulnerabilities

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for this month falls the day before the most romantic day of the year. Yes, it’s Valentine’s, and the tech giant has released its monthly security update for February 2018, addressing a total of 50 CVE-listed vulnerabilities in its Windows operating system, Microsoft Office, web browsers and […]

Necurs botnet is behind seasonal campaigns of Valentine’s Day-themed spam

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

Necurs botnet made headline again, the experts at IBM X-Force research team observed a spike in seasonal campaigns of Valentine’s Day-themed spam emails. Necurs botnet made headline again, the experts at IBM X-Force research team observed a spike in the activity of the infamous botnet. Necurs was not active for a long period at the beginning of 2017 and resumed it activity in […]

Hacking

Hackers Exploit ‘Telegram Messenger’ Zero-Day Flaw to Spread Malware

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

A zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in the desktop version for end-to-end encrypted Telegram messaging app that was being exploited in the wild in order to spread malware that mines cryptocurrencies such as Monero and ZCash. The Telegram vulnerability was uncovered by security researcher Alexey Firsh from Kaspersky Lab last […]

Hacking

Victims of some versions of the Cryakl ransomware can decrypt their files for free

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

Free decryption keys for the Cryakl ransomware were added to the free Rakhni Decryptor that could be downloaded on the NoMoreRansom website. The Belgian Federal Police has located the command and control server used by a criminal organization behind the Cryakl ransomware. The server was located in an unspecified neighboring country, law enforcement seized […]

World Cyber News

CSE CybSec ZLAB Malware Analysis Report: Dark Caracal and the Pallas malware family

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

Researchers from CSE ZLAB malware Analysis Laboratory analyzed a set of samples of the Pallas malware family used by the Dark Caracal APT in its hacking operations. The malware researchers from ZLab analyzed a collection of samples related to a new APT tracked as Dark Caracal, which was discovered by Electronic […]

Hacking

Cryakl ransomware antidote released after servers seized

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

Free decryption keys for the Cryakl ransomware were released last Friday – the fruit of an ongoing cybercrime investigation. The keys were obtained during an ongoing investigation by the Belgian Federal Police and shared with the No More Ransom project, an industry-led effort to combat the growing scourge of file-encrypting […]

Cybersecurity

Advancing Ransomware Attacks and Creation of New Cyber Security Strategies

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

As ransomware is on the rise, the organisations are focusing too much on the anti-virus softwares rather than proactively forming strategies to deal with cyber-attacks which could pose as an indefinite threat to the users. Nevertheless one of the good advices to deal with this issue is the creation of […]

World Cyber News

All HTTP websites to soon be marked as “not secure” by Google Chrome

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

If you’re still running a website that is still using insecure HTTP then it’s time to wake up and drink the coffee. Because unless you take action soon, you’re going to find many of your visitors are going to distrust your website. The reason? Google is pushing ahead with its […]

Technologies

Facebook lance le bouton « downvote » pour dénoncer des contenus inappropriés

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

Pour mieux gérer sa modération, Facebook lance un bouton « Downvote » qui permet de déclasser des commentaires. C’est pour l’instant en phase de test sur certaines pages utilisateurs aux États-Unis. « Nous ne testons pas un bouton « Je n’aime pas » ». La déclaration d’un porte-parole de Facebook à Techcrunch […]

Government websites hijacked by cryptomining plugin

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

OVER 4000 WEBSITES THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN HIT. More than 4000 websites, including many belonging to governments around the world, were hijacked this weekend by hackers who managed to plant CoinHive code designed to exploit the computer power of visiting PCs and mine for cryptocurrency. High profile websites impacted by […]