In the last few months of 2017, security companies made their own forecasts about incoming cyberthreats and the measures that needed to be taken to ensure a better and cybersafer 2018, often advocating the use of protective software tools made by that vendor. Lo and behold! 2018 started with a […]
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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean financial authorities on Monday said they are inspecting six local banks that offer virtual currency accounts to institutions, amid concerns the increasing use of such assets could lead to a surge in crime. The joint inspection by the Financial Services Commission (FSC) and Financial […]
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Introduction With recent media coverage on Meltdown and Spectre, many other security issues get buried in the mix. One such issue I’ve run across for many months now is fake anti-virus (AV) web pages or other unwanted destinations that pop up after viewing a legitimate, but compromised, website. Last week, […]
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A flash drive or USB may provide a capacity as large as 2TB or could have a small space of 256 MB but it caters the individuals in many aspects especially to store data. However, with the perspective of security, these USB drives could prove to be vulnerable to your […]
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Security researchers have discovered several severe vulnerabilities and a secret hard-coded backdoor in Western Digital’s My Cloud NAS devices that could allow remote attackers to gain unrestricted root access to the device. Western Digital’s My Cloud (WDMyCloud) is one of the most popular network-attached storage devices which is being used […]
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Les experts des réseaux F5 ont découvert un nouveau botnet de crypto-monnaies qui cible les systèmes Linux et se propage à travers le protocole SSH. Pour infecter des serveurs SSH vulnérables, l’opérateur derrière le botnet nommé PyCryptoMiner, procède par des attaques par force brute. En cas de succès, celui-ci se […]
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In October last year, three Android apps on Play Store were found infected with Coinhive cryptocurrency miner to generate Monero digital coins. Now, an IT security researcher Elliot Alderson found fake Android apps that are infected with Coinhive cryptocurrency miner specially developed to use the CPU power of a targeted device. Fake App […]
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Hackers took crypto-currency mining one step further when a public WiFi in the world famous coffee chain Starbucks was used to mine Bitcoins . This case took place in Bueno Aires, Argentina, when the CEO of an email providing company ‘Stensul’, noticed a delay of 10 seconds in his connection. […]
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A data breach targeted towards the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has resulted in the exposure of personally identifiable information of over 240,000 DHS employees (247,167 to be precise) including both current and former personnel. Reportedly, the DHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Case Management System was accessed and […]
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Android users would be wise to remember that just because an app appears in the official Google Play store doesn’t mean that it should be considered entirely trustworthy. Researchers at Trend Micro have described how they recently uncovered a total of 36 apps in the official Android app marketplace that […]
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