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An inspired writer and content manager who has been with SensorsTechForum since the project started. A professional with 10+ years of experience in creating engaging content. Focused on user privacy and malware development, she strongly believes in a world where cybersecurity plays a central role. If common sense makes no sense, she will be there to take notes. Those notes may later turn into articles! Follow Milena @Milenyim

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50 Million Facebook Profiles Exploited for Trump’s Election Campaign

Probably the most important factor when it comes to Facebook criticism is the way the social network handles the personal data of its users. Privacy issues related to individual cases have fueled the debate over time. The majority of the…

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BlackTDS: Traffic Distribution Network as a Malicious Service

There were times, not too long ago, when exploit kits were widely deployed by hackers in various types of malicious campaigns. However, with the improvement of browsers and some other security-focused factors, the use of EKs began to decline, and…

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Prilex PoS Malware Has Everything Cybercrooks Need

Do you remember the Prilex PoS (point-of-sale) malware? Prilex is one of the latest strains of ATM malware pieces that has been used in highly targeted attacks on Brazilian banks. The malware has been developed using the Visual Basic 6.0…

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Bitcoin Real Estate, Gaming Currency Used by Crooks to Launder Money

According to a recent research by University of Surrey, cryptocurrencies have become the dominant tool for money laundering. How was the study conducted? Researchers gathered information directly from convicted cybercriminals and law-enforcement agencies. Apparently, crooks are using cryptocurrency to buy…

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Which Is the Most Popular Ransomware Family for 2017?

According to Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report, Asia was the region with the highest number of ransomware infection in the period between February and December, 2017. The statistics are taken from the report’s special section dedicated to ransomware. Myanmar and Bangladesh…

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RottenSys Android Malware Pre-Installed on 5 Million Devices

Android is once again found to be vulnerable to a serious piece of malware, and this time the scale of the infection is larger than one could imagine. Security researchers came across a massive, unceasing campaign that has infected about…

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MailChimp Abused to Deliver GootKit Banking Malware for 4 Months

Apparently, MailChimp email service has been frequently abused to deliver spam messages carrying malware infections. Security researchers have been frustrated because this problem has been happening for quite some time. MailChimp Abused in Spam Campaigns Distributing Malware The issue needs…

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Three Popular VPNs Found to Be Leaking Real IP Addresses

Are you privacy-savvy and relying on a VPN to keep your online business to yourself? If so, you may want to know that a VPN recommendation site decided to test 3 VPNs to see whether they were flawlessly performing their…

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Bitcoin-Stealing Trojanized Apps Found on Download.com

Bitcoin is once again making the headlines, this time thanks to a piece of malware found on Download.com. The malware was stealing malware identified as through swapping user accounts with the accounts of the hackers behind the operation. This operation…

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CVE-2018-1050, CVE-2018-1057 Samba Flaws Endanger Servers

Two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-1050, CVE-2018-1057) have been discovered in Samba, the open-source software that is a re-implementation of the SMB networking protocol. The Samba software can run on popular operating systems such as Windows, Linux, UNIX, IBM System 390, OpenVMS.…

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CVE-2018-0886 Critical Flaw Affects All Windows Versions

CVE-2018-0886 is the identifier of a critical flaw found in Credential Security Support Provider (CredSSP). The vulnerability affects all versions of Windows and allows malicious hackers remote access to exploit RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) and WinRM (Windows Remote Management). Related…

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Necurs and Gamut Botnets Delivering 97% of All Spam to Your Inbox

Have you been wondering who is behind the enormous amount of spam you receive in your inbox? Security researchers at McAfee have the answer – two botnets are at fault for 97 percent of all spam emails sent out in…

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Highly Sophisticated Slingshot Malware Uses Routers to Infect

A highly sophisticated threat capable of cyber espionage via targeting routers has been uncovered by researchers at Kaspersky Lab. Dubbed Slingshot, the malware has been used in malicious campaigns on victims in the Middle East and Africa for several years.…

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CVE-2018-0141 Cisco Vulnerability Could Lead to Full System Control

CVE-2018-0141 has been identified as the latest vulnerability in Cisco’s Prime Collaboration Provisioning (PCP) software. Apparently, the software has a hardcoded password that could be leveraged by hackers aiming to obtain full control of the system. On top of this,…

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Mitigation against Memcached-Based DDoS Attacks Discovered

DDoS attacks based on Memcached servers can now be mitigated, researchers say. The mitigation method includes the victim sending a “flush_all” command back to the servers that initiated the attack. This method was suggested few days ago by one of…

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Windows Defender Halts Malware Campaign Trying to Infect 400,000 PCs

Windows Defender successfully halted a large malware campaign that tried to infect more than 400,000 users. The payload of the campaign was a cryptocurrency miner. The attempt took place on March 6, and it continued 12 hours, Microsoft recently revealed.…

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CVE-2018-6789 Exim Flaw Exposes 400,000 Email Servers

A flaw in a widely used email program that may be exposing some 400,000 servers globally has been discovered by security researchers. The vulnerability which has been identified as CVE-2018-6789 resides in all releases of the Exim message transfer agent…

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New Record: DDoS Attack at 1.7 Tbps Based on the Memcached Flaw

Just last week a record-breaking DDoS attack took place – registered at 1.3 Tbps. The target was GitHub, and the attack was based on a flaw in Memcached servers recently made public. It became evident that cybercriminals can exploit Memcached…

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.Bitconnect File Virus (Jigsaw Ransomware) – Remove and Restore

A new iteration of the well-known Jigsaw ransomware has been detected by security researchers, and it is known to append the .Bitconnect extension to encrypted files. As reported by researcher Michael Gillespie, the ransomware is using a new extortion method…

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.gif File Virus (GlobeImposter) – Remove and Restore Files

Security researchers have come across a new iteration of the infamous GlobeImposter ransomware. This latest iteration appends the .gif file extension to the encrypted files. Once the encryption process is over, the .gif ransomware (also referred to as .gif file…

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