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ANDROID USERS VULNERABLE TO ‘HIGH-SEVERITY’ OVERLAY ATTACKS

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

Security researchers warned of a high-severity Android flaw on Thursday that stems from what they call a “toast attack” overlay vulnerability. Researchers say criminals could use the Android’s toast notification, a feature that provides simple feedback about an operation in a small pop up, in an attack scenario to obtain […]

Cybersecurity

Google Chrome most resilient against attacks, researchers find

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

Researchers have analyzed Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Internet Explorer, and found Chrome to be the most resilient against attacks. “Modern web browsers such as Chrome or Edge improved security in recent years. Exploitation of vulnerabilities is certainly more complex today and requires a higher skill than in the past. […]

Cybersecurity

Global DDoS mitigation market trends and developments

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

Frost & Sullivan found that the DDoS mitigation market generated a revenue of $816 million in 2016 and is expected to register a CAGR of 17.1 percent through 2021. Threat actors’ continuous development of new techniques to overwhelm their target’s defenses and improve effectiveness of their DDoS attacks in terms of scale, […]

More than 700 million email addresses leaked in huge data breach

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

A spambot has leaked more than 700 million email addresses and passwords publicly in a huge data breach. The data dump occurred thanks to a misconfigured spambot, dubbed ‘Onliner’, and was discovered by a Paris-based security researcher known as Benkow. Troy Hunt, an Australian computer security expert, who runs the […]

Hacking

WikiLeaks suffers defacement at the hands of OurMine group

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

WikiLeaks’ whistleblowing website suffered an attack from the group known as OurMine on Thursday, when Julian Assange’s data-leaking site found itself on the receiving end of a ‘hack’. To read the original article : https://www.welivesecurity.com/2017/09/01/wikileaks-suffer-defacement-ourmine-group/

Equifax confirms up to 400,000 UK consumers at risk after data breach

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

One week after publicly revealing that a data breach had exposed the personal information and social security numbers of up to 143 million American consumers, the credit reporting agency has revealed more details of just how many people are affected in the UK. Although Equifax’s UK systems are said not […]

World Cyber News

Passwords to over a half million car tracking devices leaked online

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

We’ve seen a lot of data breaches this year: some big, some small, some that are dangerous, and some that are just embarrassing. But if we were to name one as the creepiest data breach of 2017, this leak of logins for car tracking devices might take the cake. The Kromtech Security […]

Hacking

More than one million new phishing sites created each month

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

Phishing attacks continue to increase in volume and sophistication, according to researchers at security firm Webroot Phishing attacks are highly targeted, sophisticated, hard to detect and difficult for users to avoid, with 1.39 million new phishing sites created each month, say security researchers. In May 2017, the number of new phishing […]

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Researchers link CCLEANER hack to cyberespionage group

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

The recent attack that resulted in 2.2 million users installing infected versions of a popular Windows system optimization tool might have been the work of a sophisticated cyberespionage group with a history of software supply chain compromises. Researchers from two security companies have established links between the malicious code surreptitiously added […]

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Iranian APT33 targets US firms with destructive malware.

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

The Iranian group known as APT33 is believed to be behind a cyberespionage campaign targeting aerospace, petrochemical and energy sector firms located in the United States, Saudi Arabia and South Korea. The group’s latest attack leverages a dropper called DropShot that is tied to the StoneDrill wiper malware—a […]