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Unpatched Android Bug Puts Owners of Samsung, Xiaomi Phones at Risk

Are you holding an Android device in your hands? Perhaps you are reading this article on your Android phone? Android appears to be the most popular mobile operating system. In fact, in the second quarter of 2018, 88 percent of…

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Turla Hackers Release New Reductor Trojan That Reads Secure Traffic

A security team of experts have discovered a new generation of malware that is created by the Turla hacking group and is called the Reductor Trojan. According to the available research it is a successor to the already released COMpfun…

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Android Apps Can Harvest Your Data Even If You Have Denied Permissions

Android applications are constantly acquiring user data without the users knowing about this process. According to a recent study a large part part of software installed on devices running Google’s operating system can harvest sensitive data without notifying or asking…

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vBulletin Forum Hack: Hackers Are Selling Data of Flirtsexchat Users

Remember CVE-2019-16759, the vBulletin vulnerability which was found to affect hundreds of thousands of internet forums? The bug has been exploited in attacks. What is worse, it was leveraged to steal data from Flirtsexchat. As the name suggest, Flirtsexchat is…

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Geost Android Botnet Amasses 800,000 Hosts in Russia

One of the malware phenomena that is rapidly expanding is the Geost Android botnet which is reported to have gained the size of more than 800,000 hosts, most of them in Russia. The end goal of the botnet is to…

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6,000 Yahoo Email Accounts Hacked By Pervert Employee

A Yahoo employee has been found guilty of hacking the inboxes of 6,000 users of the company’s service. The engineer invaded the privacy of the users in order to look for private sexual content belonging to the users — both…

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The checkm8 Exploit Can’t Be Patched, and It Affects Millions of iPhones

There’s a new iOS exploit that affects all iOS devices running on A5 to A11 chipsets. The exploit is dubbed checkm8 and it was discovered by a researcher known as axi0mx. The checkm8 Exploit Explained The checkm8 exploit leverages vulnerabilities…

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Disinformation-as-a-Service Now Offered on Dark Web Forums

There’s a new trend in the black market, and it’s known as disinformation-as-a-service. Security researchers report that underground forums where malware is typically sold are know offering the so-called commercial disinformation services. Cybercriminals are now offering their services to create…

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Major Vulnerabilities in PDF Encryption Create the PDFex Attack

PDFex is the name of a new type of attack that is built by German researchers from several universities, to prove that the PDF encryption is quite vulnerable. PDFex was tested against 27 desktop and web PDF viewers, such as…

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CVE-2019-12648: Cisco IOS Vulnerability Has a CVSS Score of 9.9

A number of high-severity vulnerabilities were unearthed in Cisco IOS and IOS XE network automation software. One of the flaws affects the company’s industrial and grid routers, making the impact incomprehensible. Severe Cisco IOS and IOS XE Vulnerabilities Discovered According…

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Vulnerabilities Ransomware Uses in Enterprise Attacks

Ransomware has been known to leverage various known vulnerabilities to gain access to systems. Some vulnerabilities are more common in ransomware attacks, so security researchers at RiskSense decided to analyze the most common ones which are used across multiple families…

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PcShare Trojan Bundled With The Legitimate Narrator Service

An unknown hacking group which is suspected to originate from China has been found to launch a massive attack globally using a Trojanized version of the Narrator service with the PcShare malware. This is particularly dangerous as the ongoing campaign…

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New Skimming Trend: Injecting Malicious Scripts into Routers

Cybercriminals appear to be working on a new way to steal payment card data. According to IBM security researchers, a group of hackers is currently developing malicious scripts to use against commercial-grade Layer 7 (L7) routers. This would entirely change…

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CVE-2019-16759: vBulletin Zero-Day Impacts Millions of Users

A new zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2019-16759, was just unearthed in vBulletin, a proprietary Internet forum software package. The vulnerability was discovered by an anonymous security researcher who published the details about the exploit online, thus exposing vBulletin users to plenty of…

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Malware Distribution: Predictions for 2020

The campaign against malware is ongoing – this is still one of the largest forms of cyberattacks affecting businesses and individuals across the world. To give an idea of the scale of the issue, in early 2019, a team of…

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CVE-2019-1367: Zero-Day in Internet Explorer, Patch Now

CVE-2019-1367 is a new zero-day vulnerability of the remote code execution kind, for which an emergency patch was just issued. The bug could allow attackers to perform remote attacks with the purpose of gaining access over a system. The vulnerability…

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RDP Port Shield: New Tool Protects against Ransomware and Brute Force Attacks

Ransomware continues to be a top threat to both individuals and enterprises. And protection against it is more important than ever. So, it is definitely good news that Cameyo, an application virtualization software-as-a-service platform, is launching a new RDP Port…

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Banking Trojan Databases Leak Sensitive Details of 2 Million Users

To our greatest concern, the services we use daily often become part of data breaches and data leaks, in which our personal details are exposed to cybercriminals. Banks, airlines, hotels, various organizations put our information at risk in databases that…

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The 3 Most Popular TCP Ports at Fault for Most Attacks on SMBs

Small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are more targeted by cybercriminals than ever, according to a new AlertLogic report. However, there is a way for SMBs to be protected and it involves cushioning the ports that cyber attackers target the most.…

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Skidmap: New Cryptocurrency Miner Targets Linux Users

Skidmap is a new cryptomining malware (cryptominer) that uses loadable kernel modules (LKMs) to sneak into Linux systems. The malware is capable of hiding its malicious activities by displaying fake network traffic stats. According to Trend Micro researchers, who stumbled…

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