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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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NjRAT Lime Edition Trojan In-Depth Analysis: A Potent Hacking Weapon

The security community has reported that the NjRat Lime Edition Trojan has recently been updated with a new ransomware component. The fact that this hacking tool is popular among computer criminals both on the underground hacker markets and the communities…

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Google’s Latest Android Security Update Fixes 47 Vulnerabilities

Google has delivered their last and probably final Android update for 2017. The bulletin amends a total of 47 vulnerabilities. Among them there are five critical remote code execution issues that are particularly worrisome. The Last Android Update for 2017…

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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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Ursnif v3 Banking Trojan on the Loose with Sophisticated Targeting

Researchers at IBM have detected a new variant of the Ursnif Trojan whose developers have been testing a new feature in active attacks. This piece of malware is based on the code of the original Ursnif or Gozi ISFB, but…

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Drive-By Cryptomining Continues After the Browser Is Closed

Drive-by cryptomining also known as cryptojacking has turned into one of the major threats to online users. Researchers are coming across more and more cases of abuse involving Coinhive. The Coinhive mining within a browser explained What is Coinhive? Coinhive…

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Facebook Bug Allows Malicious Users to Delete Anyone’s Photos

Security researchers uncovered a dangerous Facebook bug which allows hackers and malicious users to delete photos of users without accessing their accounts. The vulnerability was found to be part of the newly implemented poll feature. Facebook Bug Can Trigger Arbitrary…

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Mirai New Variant Uses Port 23, Port 2323 and CVE-2016-10401

A new variant of Mirai just before Christmas? Sure, why not! Qihoo 360 Netlab researchers just witnessed new uptick while tracking botnet activity associated with a new variant of the well-known Mirai IoT malware. Users should be aware that ports…

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Mozilla to Implement HaveIBeenPwned in Firefox to Alert Users

Mozilla and HaveIBeenPwned.com are joining forces to alert users when they are about to visit a site that has been hacked. This would happen via an in-browser notification thanks to which the user will be informed about the possible hacked…

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CVE-2017-15908: systemd Bug Puts Linux at Risk of DoS Attacks

Linux users, beware. A number of Linux distros are at risk due to a bug in systemd. The flaw is located in systemd’s DNS resolver and could lead to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on affected systems, TrendMicro researchers warn. The vulnerability…

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CVE-2017-2750 in HP Enterprise-Grade Printers Fixed

New day, new vulnerability. HP has just released firmware patches to address a security bug disclosed by FoxGlove researchers, which enabled hackers to carry out remote code execution attacks on enterprise-grade printers. The flaw in question has been identified as…

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Google Tracks Android Devices Location at All Times

Security experts uncovered that Google is actively tracking Android devices even when the relevant settings are turned off from the menu. This is particularly worrisome for users that prefer to keep their data private. Related Story: Your Privacy on Facebook…

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Christmas Malware 2017: Types of Scams to Keep Away From

Black Friday is a reminder that the winter holidays are near. Christmas means presents, presents mean shopping, which for various reasons often happens online. Unfortunately, the ever increasing number of people shopping online means more scams specifically designed to target…

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Malware Code That Never Gets Old, Version 2017

What malware researchers usually encounter in their daily malware analyses is reused code. As a matter of fact, reusing code is something all developers tend to do, malicious coders inclusive. Most new malware is in fact reused, re-branded source code…

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Parity Accident: $300 Million in Ether Lost for Good

Have you heard about the accidental freeze of $300 million worth of Ether that happened to the Parity wallet? Already called the biggest cryptocurrency loss in the short life of cryptocurrencies, this event is not a classical hack. The money…

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