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Twitch.TV

PUP and PUA Prompts on a Fake Copy of the Twitch.tv Streaming Video Platform

Twicth.tv is a web-site platform created to connect gamers throughout all over the world. Twict.tv helps gamers connect, chat and communicate no matter where they play games from. It was recently discovered that the site has a relatively good fake…

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Windows Zero-Day Misused in Hackers Attacks

Windows Zero-Day Exploited in Hackers Attacks

A new zero-day flaw has been actively exploited by cyber-criminals, targeting primarily users on workstations and servers who open files with embedded OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) objects. At the moment, the vulnerability is exploited via PowerPoint files. OLE objects…

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Malvertising Campaign Aimed at Changing the DNS Settings of Home Routers

Malvertising Campaign Aimed at Changing the DNS Settings of Home Routers

A payload for altering the DNS settings of home routers is being delivered through a malicious advertisement inserted in a big online advertising network. The definition for malvertising is an attack in which the cyber criminals take advantage of third-party…

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Zero Day Vulnerability Threatens Microsoft Windows Security

Zero Day Vulnerability Threatens Microsoft Windows Security

In a security advisory released yesterday, Microsoft has warned about a just-discovered vulnerability of all Windows systems due to security hack attacks. The threat is found in the Windows Object Linking function (OLE). The function is developed so users can…

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FIDO-USB-Port

FIDO – New 2-Step Verification Security Method – Offered By Google Now

Google have announced yesterday that they are expanding their security verification methods with one more – a USB stick security key acting as a 2-step verification method for users to log into web-sites when using the Google Chrome browser. The…

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Recentlty-Patched-Adobe-Flash-Vulnerability

A Recently Patched Adobe Flash Flaw Integrated in Fiesta Exploit Kit

A Flash Player security vulnerability that has been patched by Adobe in the most recent update of the product has been added to a commercial exploit kit, named Fiesta, known for the drive-by attacks it is used in. The flaw…

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Most popular ways less technical people fall victim to cybercriminals

Most Popular Ways Less Technical People Fall Victim to Cyber Criminals

Let’s face it – in the digital era the less technical computer users are the hackers’ favorite targets in every campaign, be that data theft or corporate espionage. In many cases, the only thing needed for the success of a…

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Icloud-china

China Connection to iCloud With Redirection to Bogus Log-In Page

People who were trying to access the iCloud service from China were recently having troubles. They have been blocked and their connection was been directed to a phishing page that collects the user credentials. The IT security specialists are figuring…

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Microsoft-Oct-2014

Adware and Browser Modifiers with Changed Detection by Microsoft

As PC users, we are doing everything in the web browsers and this would have been wonderful if the cyber attackers, advertisers and scammers have not been trying to get their code in the browsers that we use. This is…

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Facebook Increases the Bounties for Ad-Related Flaws

Facebook Increases the Bounties for Ad-Related Flaws

As hackers keep on targeting the online advertising world, which is considered the back of the Internet economy, more and more online brands are facing the need to eliminate the hoax of malvertising. A fresh example for such action is…

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Asprox Botnet Grows Through Spam Emails

Asprox Botnet Grows Through Spam Emails

The creators of Asprox botnet are sending spam emails promising a free Starbucks gift card in order to expand the capacity of the botnet. The main purpose of the spam campaign is to enlarge the botnet, which has been known…

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Wolf of Wall Street Campaign Uses Botnets to Deliver Spam Emails

“Wolf of Wall Street” Campaign Uses Botnets to Deliver Spam Emails

A spam e-mail that aims to increase the stock value of a Canadian penny stock company has been delivered to numerous users last week. As a result of the campaign, the transaction volume increased significantly. The company in question is…

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ssl-certificate-attaced

Microsoft SSL 3.0 Certificate Attacked by New POODLE Bug

Google researchers Bodo Möller, Thai Duong & Krzysztof Kotowicz announced yesterday that they have recently discovered Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption, known as POODLE, to be attacking the SSL 3.0 version of the public-encryption key introduced by Microsoft back…

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CMS-Plug-ins

75 Million WordPress Websites at Risk

Vulnerabilities are Coming from the CMS Plug-Ins The content management systems are in the focus of the cyber criminals due to the availability of plug-ins, large attack surfaces themes and extensions. The news reports in the last few months revealed…

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Kmart-malware-attack

Kmart PoS System Infected by an Unknown Malware

In a statement, published on 10 October this year, Kmart Company President Alasdair James acknowledged that the company has been recently a subject of a hack attack. On 9 October, 2014 Kmart’s IT team discovered their PoS (Point-of-Sale) systems to…

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Microsoft-Oct-2014-updates

Major Security Updates from Microsoft for October 2014

A few days ago 14IE flows have been closed. In September the IT specialists warned that the Aurora Panda/DeputyDog actor has lost its IE 0day for being patched and that as found unusual. In October several other vulnerabilities have been…

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dropbox-hacked

Dropbox Hacked… Again?

A new post release by an unknown hacker group in the text sharing Pastebin site today states that they have managed to steal more than 6 million user credentials from the famous share-cloud service Dropbox. The statement also says that…

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GameOverZeus

GameOver Zeus Spotted to Compromise Vogue.com

GameOver Zeus, a botnet designed to infect systems and steal their banking credentials, was detected to have compromised vogue.com, according to URLquery.net, a website for detecting and analysing malware. The Department of Justice and the FBI managed to disrupt the…

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Snapchat-stolen-pictures

100,000+ Snapchat Pictures Leaked into the Web

Cache of about 13 gigabytes of pictures, some of them of nude and underage users, leaked out in the free web on Thursday night. Most of them were posted into the 4Chan imageboard website. The cache came from the photo…

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