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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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The State of Malvertising and Drive-By Downloads in 2020

What is the state of malvertising and drive-by downloads in 2020? A new Confiant report explores “the details behind a recent spree of website hacks” as well as the malicious payloads delivered to victims. The report also includes details on…

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Daniel’s Dark Web Hosting Hack Leads to Permanent Shutdown

The largest free web hosting provider for dark web services has been hacked. Daniel’s Hosting was hacked in March this year, and its database was subsequently leaked online. Apparently, a hacker known as KingNull not only breached the portal and…

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Sign in with Apple Zero-Day Bug Could Have Critical Impact

In April, security researcher Bhavuk Jain discovered a zero-day vulnerability in Sign in with Apple that affected third-party applications using the feature without implementing their own security measures. According to the researcher, the Apple zero-day “could have resulted in a…

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Norton Security Warning Pop-up Removal (PC Is Infected)

What Is Norton Security Warning Pop-up? ‘Norton Security Warning’ pop-up windows suggesting that the user should call the number 1-855-770-9879 are an indication of adware and PUP infiltration. Users should not trust anything displayed by “Norton Security Warning” since the…

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Ransomware Getting Greedier and Bigger, Attacks Increase by 40%

Ransomware continues to be a top cybersecurity threat to both individual users and public and private organizations. Ransomware has proven to be the most insidious and persistent threat plaguing users and enterprises worldwide for money. Now, the latest statistics reveal…

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Highly Critical StrandHogg 2.0 Bug Affects 1 Billion Android Devices

A new highly dangerous, critical vulnerability was identified in the Android operating system. The vulnerability resembles the StrandHogg flaw, revealed last year, but is even more sophisticated. Dubbed StrandHogg 2.0 and also known as CVE-2020-0096, the vulnerability affects all Android…

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EasyJet Facing Class-Action Lawsuit of £18 Billion Due to Recent Data Breach

EasyJet recently revealed that it went through a significant data breach that affected nine million of the company’s customers. The breached data also included more than two thousand credit card details. Following this massive data breach, EasyJet is facing an…

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The Unc0ver Jailbreak Roots and Unlocks All iOS Devices

A new iOS jailbreak was recently released by a group of cybersecurity experts and reverse engineers, known as the Unc0ver team. The jailbreak, called UnC0ver 5.0.0, can root and unlock all iOS devices, including the ones running the most recent…

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Canada’s Competition Bureau Fines Facebook Millions Over Privacy

Facebook is facing another penalty over false data privacy claims. According to Canada’s Competition Bureau, Facebook has mishandled user information by creating the false feeling that users could control who could see and access their personal information via privacy features.…

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CVE-2020-3956: RCE Vulnerability in VMware Cloud Director

There’s a new high severity, remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in VMware Cloud Director. Tracked as CVE-2020-3956, the flaw triggers code injection that allows authenticated attackers to send malicious traffic to Cloud Director. This could then lead to arbitrary code…

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Source Code of GhostDNS Exploit Kit Leaked Due to Carelessness

GhostDNS exploit kit was making the headlines last year, when it was first discovered by Qihoo 360’s NetLab researchers. Back then, the researchers came across a widespread malicious campaign that had hijacked more than 100,000 home routers to modify their…

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192 Million Data Records Exposed in Natura Cosmetics Data Leak

The latest large-scale data leak involves the personally identifiable information of 192 million data records of customers in Brazil. Natura, one of the country’s largest cosmetics companies, had a leaky database hosted on two unprotected US-based Amazon servers. Natura Cosmetics…

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NXNSAttack: Severe DNS Vulnerability Can Cause DDoS Attacks

Another day, another discovery of vulnerabilities. A new malicious attack exploiting the way DNS recursive resolvers operate was just discovered. In detail, the attack exploits the way the resolvers work when receiving NS referral response that contains nameservers but without…

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CVE-2020-10135: BIAS Vulnerability in Bluetooth Classic Protocol

A new type of malicious attack was recently disclosed, based on a new security flaw in the Bluetooth wireless protocol. The attack has been called BIAS (Bias Impersonation AttackS) and is given the CVE-2020-10135 identifier, and it affects the classic…

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No More Flash Support in Firefox by the End of 2020

Mozilla has decided to drop support for Flash for the Firefox browser. This change is going to happen by December 2020. Why is Mozilla implementing this change? According to Plugin Roadmap for Firefox, the main reason is security: Plugins are…

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At Least 300 Authentic Phishing Templates Continue to Exploit Pandemic

Cybersecurity researchers recently identified more than 300 phishing campaigns created to harvest personal and banking details from potential victims. Most of these scams are using sites that are identical to the original ones, made with authentic images and user interfaces.…

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iOS Security Worse Than Ever Due to Oversupply of Bugs

What is the current state of iOS security? According to exploit acquisition firm Zerodium, iOS security is not doing that great anymore. Five years ago, Zerodium was offering a reward of $1 million for a browser-based, untethered jailbreak in iOS…

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The 10 Most Exploited Vulnerabilities, According to the U.S. Governmen

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), together with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the broader U.S. Government have released an alert detailing the 10 most exploited vulnerabilities in the period between 2016 and 2019, and also so…

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Astaroth Trojan Uses YouTube Channels to Hide Command and Control Servers

Remember the Astaroth Trojan? Considered to be one of the stealthiest pieces of info-stealing malware, Astaroth continues to evolve in its latest attacks. According to a new report released by Cisco Talos, the malware has obtained two major updates. This…

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400 Million Malware Infections Were Detected in April 2020

A new cybersecurity analysis indicates that the number of malware infections has increased significantly for the last month. According to data compiled by researchers at AtlasVPN and Kaspersky’s real-time cyberthreat map, there have been more than 10 million malware infections…

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