The FBI has issued an alert that scammers are now sending out phishing emails that purport to come from the agency’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). Having received “numerous victim complaints”, the FBI’s authority on internet scams has identified four different versions of the scam. In one of the variations, […]
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Other problems for the Amazon Key technology, a hacker posted a video on Twitter to show how to access a locked door after a delivery worker’s one-time code has been used. Earlier in November, Amazon announced for its Prime members the Amazon Key, a program that would allow a delivery person […]
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Researcher at Fidelis Cybersecurity devised a new technique that abuses X.509 Digital Certificates to establish a covert data exchange channel Last year, during the Bsides conference in July 2017, the security researcher at Fidelis Cybersecurity Jason Reaves demonstrated how to covertly exchange data using X.509 digital certificates, now the same expert published the […]
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A vulnerability in the Grammarly Chrome and Firefox extensions allowed websites to read users’ authentication tokes and use to them to log in to the users’ Grammarly accounts and access all the (potentially sensitive) information held in them. About the vulnerability The vulnerability was discovered by Google project Zero researcher […]
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The WannaCry and NotPetya outbreaks were by far among the most significant digital attack campaigns that took place in 2017. Together, the crypto-ransomware and wiper malware affected hundreds of thousands of computers all over the world. They achieved this reach by abusing EternalBlue. Allegedly developed by the U.S. National Security […]
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A new entry to the phishing scams list today. This is asking for credentials for a new Online Payments Processor – Stripe.com. I haven’t previously heard of this company before or seen any phishing attempts against it. However a quick Google search does bring up a very small handful of […]
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A fresh threat to Android devices has managed to infect thousands of devices in days, researchers warn. In a blog post published Sunday, cybersecurity researcher Wang Hui from 360Netlab said a strain of cryptocurrency mining malware called ADB.Miner has begun spreading rapidly. The malware has similar capabilities to worms and […]
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If you have ever been infected or have helped someone infected with adware, then you most likely have seen your browser being redirected to sites pretending to be Flash Player updates. Instead of a legitimate update, these sites normally push adware bundles that install further unwanted programs on an unsuspecting user. Today, […]
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The Israeli security researcher Barak Tawily a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-6389 that could be exploited to trigger DoS condition of WordPress websites. The expert explained that the CVE-2018-6389 flaw is an application-level DoS issued that affects the WordPress CMS and that could be exploited by an attacker even without a massive amount of malicious […]
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Other problems for the Amazon Key technology, a hacker posted a video on Twitter to show how to access a locked door after a delivery worker’s one-time code has been used. Earlier in November, Amazon announced for its Prime members the Amazon Key, a program that would allow a delivery person […]
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