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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

CYBER NEWS

Android/Spy.Inazigram in 13 Google Play Apps Steals Instagram Credentials

Instagram users, beware! ESET researchers just disclosed that 13 malicious apps on Google Play are currently trying to harvest user Instagram credentials. The apps in question carry Android/Spy.Inazigram which is phishing for credentials, eventually sending them to a remote server.…

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The OS Battle: Android to Beat Windows in Terms of Internet Usage

Windows has been the number one operating system for Internet usage. However, it’s now likely for Microsoft to lose its ground as Android is quickly following it behind. At least this is what a comparison chart by research firm StatCounter…

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CVE-2017-5638 Patched but Still Under Attack, Companies at Risk

Attackers are currently exploiting a critical vulnerability, indexed CVE-2017-5638, allowing them to obtain nearly absolute control over web servers used by banks, government agencies, and big Internet companies. The attacks were disclosed by Vicente Motos from Hack Players, who wrote…

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CIA’s Umbrage Team Borrowed Techniques from Shamoon, Other Malware

One of biggest scandals of 2017, the one involving WikiLeaks and the CIA, is escalating by the minute. It is now known that one of the teams of the agency specializes in reusing bits of code and techniques taken from……

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Verifone Breach 2017- a Result of a Cyber Attack?

Another day, another breach. Brian Krebs just reported that Verifone, the largest manufacturer of credit card terminals in the US, is currently investigating a breach of its internal networks. These computer networks appear to have been limited to Verifone’s corporate…

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Ransomware 2017: Critical Errors in Critical Infrastructure

Ransomware has been the primary online threat for the past couple of years, and it is expected to be just that in 2017. Let’s take a survey from June 2016 by Osterman Research, which revealed that almost one out of…

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StoneDrill, Shamoon 2.0: Wiper Malware Getting Better

The last time we wrote about wiper malware was in December when Shamoon returned to the malware scene. Shamoon, a.k.a. Disstrack was initially detected about four years ago in attacks against Saudi Oil Company Aramco. Its intention was to wipe…

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Dot Ransomware RaaS Scheme: No Fee, You Get It for Free!

If you haven’t been infected by ransomware, ever, you are either very good at taking care of your data, or you have been incredibly lucky. Ransomware has been continuously evolving, and has become incredibly widespread thanks to the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS)…

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CVE-2017-0016, CVE-2017-0037, CVE-2017-0038 – What Are the Mitigations?

CVE-2017-0016, CVE-2017-0037, CVE-2017-0038 are three recently uncovered Microsoft vulnerabilities that bring to light once again the employment of Intrusion prevention system protection (IPS), as pointed out by TrendMicro researchers. IPS, also known as Virtual Patching, helps protect against vulnerabilities even…

CYBER NEWS

Dridex v4 Enters Operation AtomBombing, UK Banks Under Attack

Dridex, one of the worst banking Trojans to ever enter the financial malware scene, is back once again, and is in a better shape than before. New capabilities have been added to Dridex v4 which make it even more impossible…

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Fail! Hackers Attempt to Infect Android Users with Windows Malware

Palo Alto researchers just discovered 123 Android apps located on Google Play that tried to infect users with… Windows malware. The apps were infected with “tiny hidden Iframes that link to malicious domains in their local HTML pages”. The most…

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Mac’s Gatekeeper Goes Windows 10, New Feature Blocks Win32 Apps

If you are a core Windows user, perhaps you’ve already heard about the new feature Microsoft just implemented in Windows 10. The novel feature blocks the installation of Win32 apps and restricts the OS to run just Windows Store apps.…

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Vulnerable WordPress Plugin Could Cause Severe Attacks

Sucuri researchers just came across a serious vulnerability that affects WordPress website databases. More particularly, a WordPress gallery plugin with more than 1 million active installations has been found to have a severe SQL injection flaw. The researchers say that:…

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Windows 7 Regaining Users, While Windows 10 Is Losing Ground

Are you a Windows user? If so, have you switched to Windows 10, or are you still running an older version of Microsoft’s operating system? According to new market share statistics by NetMarketShare, Windows 7 started growing again in February…

CYBER NEWS

ESET CVE-2016-9892 Flaw Exposes Macs to Remote Code Execution

Another day, another vulnerability. Did you hear about the recently revealed remote code execution bug in all (except the latest) ESET Endpoint Antivirus 6 for macOS? The vulnerability in question has been identified as CVE-2016-9892. The vulnerability was discovered and…

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Chrome 56 Update Issue Doesn’t Stem from Google but from BlueCoat

Problems were reported with Google Chrome’s latest update. More particularly, Chromebook users were unable to reach the Internet. Chromebooks are primarily used in schools where the connection is protected by proxies like Symantec’s BlueCoat. In fact, the issue with the…

REVIEWS

Connected CloudPets Toys Expose Two Million Children Voice Recordings

How about that? 2 million voice recordings of children and parents, together with e-mail addresses and passwords belonging to 800,000 accounts have been exposed. The reason? Insecure Internet-connected stuffed animal toys! Voice Recordings and Sensitive Data from Connected CloudPets Toys…

CYBER NEWS

Google’s ProjectZero Puzzled by Microsoft, CVE-2017-0037 Still Not Patched

Google’s Project Zero reported to Microsoft a security bug in Edge and Internet Explorer 11 on November 25th, 2016, which still hasn’t been patched. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2017-0037, would allow remote code execution where attackers could crash browsers and…

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E2EMail by Google Goes Open-Source as a GitHub Repository

E2EMail, an experimental end-to-end encryption system developed by Google, was just made available for open-source usage. “E2EMail is not a Google product, it’s now a fully community-driven open source project, to which passionate security engineers from across the industry have…

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CVE-2017-6206 Found in D-Link DGS-1510 Enterprise Switch Kit

In January 2017 the Federal Trade Commission started suing the Taiwanese router production company D-Link because of vulnerabilities in their Wi-Fi routing devices and web cameras. Those vulnerabilities could allow attackers to exploit the devices. Almost two months later, security…

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