An IoT botnet has set its hooks in about 4,500 – 5,000 proxy devices to send spam emails which each device capable of sending 400 messages or a total of 1.8 million messages per day. The Linux.ProxyM first appeared in February 2017 and had peaked at 10,000 bots by July […]
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Microsoft has just patched an important vulnerability in Microsoft Word during its latest patch Tuesday cycle. According to the security firm that found it [1], this new zero-day (CVE-2017-8759) was used in targeted attacks to install a piece of malware known as FinFisher. Microsoft Office has been in the line of fire throughout the […]
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Billions of mobile, desktop and IoT devices that use Bluetooth may be exposed to a new stealthy remote attack dubbed BlueBorne attack. Billions of mobile, desktop and IoT devices that use Bluetooth may be exposed to a new remote attack, even without any user interaction and pairing. The unique condition […]
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Phishing continues to be a criminals’ favorite for harvesting user credentials with more or less sophisticated social engineering tricks. In this post, we take a look at a recent attack that uses existing LinkedIn user accounts to send phishing links to their contacts via private message but also to external […]
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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 […]
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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/
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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 […]
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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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Le cabinet Armis Labs a identifié 8 vulnérabilités dont 4 critiques permettant à des pirates de se connecter, prendre le contrôle et déployer des malwares sur n’importe quel terminal via la liaison Bluetooth. Baptisée BlueBorne, cette vulnérabilité peut être exploitée sur les appareils Windows, Linux, iOS et Android. To read […]
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This is a small guide and FAQ on the malware installed alongside CCleaner 5.33.6162. For a full recap of what happened, you can read our complete CCleaner coverage. What happened? An unknown threat group compromised the CCleaner infrastructure. The attacker added malware to the CCleaner 5.33.6162 and CCleaner Cloud 1.07.3191 installers, but the malware only executed on […]
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