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The first quarter of 2018 has already passed, and security researchers were able to draw some important conclusions. It appears that during the first three months of this year, ransomware was finally dethroned. The new most prevalent cybersecurity threat is…
strong>Roskomnadzor, Russia’s telecommunications watchdog, banned today over 1.8 million IP addresses belonging to Amazon and Google’s cloud infrastructure. Roskomnadzor Bans More Than 1.8 Million IP Addresses Belonging to Amazon and Google It has been reported that Roskomnadzor, Russian Federal Service…
Intel has just announced several new initiatives that use features specific to the Intel hardware platform to improve security, Arstechnica reported. The first one of these initiatives is Intel Threat Detection Technology (TDT) which is designed to use specific features…
Researchers have discovered a vulnerability residing in the JavaScript SecureRandom() function used for generating random Bitcoin addresses and their corresponding private keys. The flaw makes old Bitcoin addresses generated in the browser or via JS-based wallet application vulnerable to brute-force…
The largest traffic distribution system (TDS) known as EITest was just taken down by security researchers from Abuse.ch, BrilliantIT, and Proofpoint. The expert group sinkholed the command and control infrastructure behind the network of hacked servers that had been used…
Researchers Karsten Nohl and Jakob Lell from security firm Security Research Labs have uncovered a hidden patch gap in Android devices. The two conducted a two-year analysis of 1,200 Android phones, and just presented their results during the Hack in…
Malicious code is capable of evolving, and so has proved a team of researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel that successfully created and tested malware able to exfiltrate data from air-gapped machines through power lines. Тhe newly…
A new malware campaign has been discovered leveraging an increasing number of legitimate but compromised websites. The malicious operation has been built on social engineering tricks where users are prompted with fake but authentic update notifications, researchers reported. Fake Update…
Facebook just announced launching a Data Abuse Bounty program where people will be rewarded for reporting misuse of data by application developers. Facebook’s Data Abuse Bounty – the Details The Data Abuse Bounty is inspired by the already existing bug…
April 2018 Patch Tuesday has been rolled out. It contains 66 security fixes for vulnerabilities. One of the more intriguing patches involves an older Microsoft Outlook flaw that was first reported in 2016. However, according to Will Dormann, the vulnerability…
CubeYou is yet another data analytics firm currently involved in a Facebook scandal, the CNBC reported. Apparently, the social media platform is suspending CubeYou due to unlawful collection of user information through quizzes. Related Story: 50 Million Facebook Profiles Exploited…
Due to the number of highly critical vulnerabilities in some of its products, Cisco has been the center of attention in the cybercrime world. The latest news regarding the company involves a new hacking group, JHT, which successfully hijacked a…
A new critical vulnerability has been found in Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software that could lead to remote code execution and a denial-of-service condition. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could execute arbitrary code to take full control over…
CVE-2018-0986 is the identifier of a brand new critical Windows vulnerability which resides in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine and affects Windows Defender. The flaw could trigger remote code execution when the engine doesn’t properly scan a specially crafted file leading…
A new piece of Android malware has been discovered. Dubbed KevDroid, the malware is being distributed in the form of a fake anti-virus application called Naver Defender. KevDroid is in fact a remote administration tool that steals sensitive data from…
Google has just put in motion a new Web Store policy regarding Chrome extensions that mine cryptocurrency. There has been a significant uptick in malicious extensions, and the technology giant has decided to ban any such extension that harms users.…
The popular CMS system Drupal has been found to contain a highly critical security vulnerability that affects Drupal versions 7 and 8. The flaw has been given the CVE-2018-7600 identifier. Drupal developers are urging admins to patch their websites as…
One of the hottest trends in malware design is AutoHotKey, security researchers say. AutoHotKey or AHK for short is an open-source scripting language that was written for Windows in 2003. In detail, the open-source language was initially aimed at providing…
One of the newest detected ransomware pieces out there has been dubbed Gedantar ransomware, or Gedantar file virus, after the main executable Gedantar.exe. The ransomware was discovered by security analyst Karsten Hahn, and researchers believe that it is an updated…
Three critical vulnerabilities have found in Cisco products. More specifically, Cisco’s IOS and IOS XE contain two flaws – CVE-2018-0151 and CVE-2018-171. The third flaw concerns only Cisco IOS XE Software. If exploited, it could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker…
