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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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Tracking Scripts Exploit Browsers’ Built-In Password Managers

Modern advertising techniques are often borderline malicious, especially when it comes to the ways marketing companies gather users’ personal information. A team of researchers from Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy just discovered that at least two marketing companies are…

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15-Year-Old macOS Bug in IOHIDFamily Leads to Full System Compromise

2018 is here and it’s already delivering some quite nasty vulnerabilities. A security researcher known as Siguza has just released detailed information on an unpatched zero-day flaw in macOS, which could lead to an attacker gaining root access on a…

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Zeiss.exe Miner Malware – How to Remove It from the System

This article will help you understand what the zeiss.exe miner malware process is and what it does to your system. You will also be provided with instructions on how to fully remove the malicious process from your system. Malware researchers…

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Nissan Canada Data Breach Affects Various Customer Data

The end of the year is approaching but cybercriminals know no rest. Another data breach has been detected, affecting Nissan. The company has notified that a possible data breach has happened, affecting their customers’ personal information. More specifically, the breach…

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Fake Bitcoin Wallet Apps Plague Google Play Store

Yet another case of Android users being targeted by attackers involves the popularity of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. More particularly, researchers have come across several fake Bitcoin wallets for Android. The malware family was dubbed PickBitPocket. Details about the PickBitPocket Malicious…

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Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Unavailable: A BIOS Corrupting Problem

Because of current reports about laptops with corrupted BIOS after the installation of the latest version, Canonical has temporarily disabled download links for Ubuntu 17.10 “Artful Aardvark”. Lenovo, Other Laptops with Corrupted BIOS after Latest Canonical Install The reports are…

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Captcha Plugin for WordPress Found to Contain a Backdoor

WordPress plugins often pose various threats to website owners. This is the case with a plugin named Captcha that was discovered to contain a backdoor. The plugin has been installed by 300,000 users. WordPress Captcha Plugin Contains a Backdoor, Wordfence…

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Browser Miner Virus – How to Detect and Remove

Statistics from November this year revealed that 2,531 of the top 3 million websites are running the Coinhive miner, which amounts to 1 in 1,000 websites. To no one’s surprise, BitTorrent websites have been the main perpetrators. But they are…

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Bitcoin Owners, Crypto Exchanges: Hackers’ New Favorite Targets

Bitcoin has been in the center of attention for quite some time now. Besides investment interest, the cryptocurrency has been a huge part of the cybercriminals’ agenda that have been leveraging Bitcoin to collect ransomware payments from various victims –…

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AnubisSpy Android Spyware with Increasingly Alarming Capabilities

Android has been long targeted by attackers. There have been multiple cases of Android malware and ransomware, and even cryptocurrency miners posing as apps. Android has always been lucrative for malicious actors, and the quickly evolving threat landscape for the…

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What Happens in China, Stays in China. Even for Google and Facebook

In January, 2017, China began officially transforming the Great Wall into the Great Firewall. This is when the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology published a statement on its official website stating that government officials were about to start…

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Bitfinex Platform Suffered Yet Another DDoS Attack

Sunday afternoon Bitfinex once again announced via Twitter that the platform is under heavy DDOS, and that they working to bring it back online. Earlier this month, Bitfinex went through some major DDoS attacks. Let’s have a look at the…

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PRILEX ATM Malware Jackpots Machines and Steals Credit Card Details

PRILEX is the name of the latest strain of ATM malware that was discovered and analyzed by Trend Micro researchers. A previous version of this malware was spotted by Kaspersky in October this year. The malware has been used in…

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Goodbye, Net Neutrality. What Does FCC’s Decision Mean?

Are you following the story of Net Neutrality? If you are, you are probably aware of what happened on Thursday. The Federal Communications Commission just voted to overturn Net Neutrality, the regulations making sure that ISPs like AT&T, Comcast, and…

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85 Malicious Apps on Google Play Were Stealing Login Credentials

Despite the multiple cases of fake or compromised Android apps, bad applications continue to sneak in, successfully bypassing any security measures Play Store has. 85 such applications were just removed from there. The apps were infected with malware that was…

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December 2017 Patch Tuesday: CVE-2017-11937, CVE-2017-11940

The final Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for 2017 has just rolled. Even though this is not the worst batch of updates released throughout the year, there are still several notable vulnerabilities that were addressed and that need our attention. Such flaws…

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Aggregate Database Exposes 1.4 Billion Clear Text Credentials

Weak password security continues to be a huge issue despite the hundreds of misfortunate cases of leaked password databases, hacks and other incidents of the sort. The bad habit of using the same password over and over again across multiple…

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HP Laptops, HP G2 Notebooks Affected by Driver-Level Keylogger

Security researcher Michael Myng also known as ZwClose discovered a driver-level keylogger on HP laptops. The bug has been now solved via an emergency patch issued by Hewlett Packard. Hundreds of HP laptops were affected, including HP G2 Notebooks, the…

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Quant Trojan Wants Your Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency Wallet

The Quant Trojan is now targeting Bitcoin cryptocurrency wallets, researchers warn. Forcepoint researchers recently came across an active Quant loader admin panel that was hosted on a new domain. The domain was also hosting several other malware samples. At first,…

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TIO Networks, Company Acquired by PayPal Suffers Data Breach

PayPal is one of the many big, multi-national companies that have been through a data breach. Apparently, the service has suffered an indirect breach in its recently acquired payment processor TIO Networks. The result is that some 1.6 million customers…

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