14 Sep

Ballistic Bobcat’s Sponsor backdoor – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Video Ballistic Bobcat is a suspected Iran-aligned cyberespionage group that targets organizations in various industry verticals, as well as human rights activists and journalists, mainly

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14 Sep

RUOK Day – How to Get Help Online When You’re Not Feeling OK

I’m such a fan of RUOK? Day. Started in 2009, it’s an Australian non-profit suicide prevention that is all about having conversations with others to

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13 Sep

Chrome, Firefox and more caught with their WebP down, offer hasty patch-up

Updated Google and Mozilla have rushed out a fix for a vulnerability within their browsers – Chrome and Firefox, respectively – noting an exploit already

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13 Sep

Watchdog urges change of HART: Late, expensive US biometric ID under fire

Twice delayed and over budget, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been told by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that it needs to

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13 Sep

Uncle Sam warns deepfakes are coming for your brand and bank account

Deepfakes are coming for your brand, bank accounts, and corporate IP, according to a warning from US law enforcement and cyber agencies. In a report

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13 Sep

Airbus suffers data leak turbulence to cybercrooks’ delight

Aerospace giant Airbus has fallen victim to a data breach, thanks in part to the inattention of a third party. Israel-based cybercrime intelligence company Hudson

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13 Sep

Cookie Theft: How to Keep Cybercriminals Out of Your Accounts

Chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, snickerdoodle: Cybercriminals have a sweet tooth just like you. But their favorite type of cookie is of the browser variety. Browser

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13 Sep

Used cars? Try used car accounts: 15,000 up for grabs online at just $2 a pop

Researchers have found almost 15,000 automotive accounts for sale online and pointed at a credential-stuffing attack that targeted car makers. The team at Kasada did

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13 Sep

How to snoop on passwords with this one weird trick (involving public Wi-Fi signals)

Some smart cookies at institutions in China and Singapore have devised a technique for reading keystrokes and pilfering passwords or passcodes from Wi-Fi-connected mobile devices

Author rabih
13 Sep

Capita class action: 2,000 folks affected by data theft sign up

The number of claimants signing up to a Class Action against Capita over the infamous March cyber security break-in and subsequent data exposure keeps going

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13 Sep

Read it right! How to spot scams on Reddit

As the world’s 18th most visited website and 7th most frequented social network, it’s no surprise that Reddit also holds great allure for cybercriminals. Besides an

Author rabih
13 Sep

Ransomware attack hits Sri Lanka government, causing data loss

Sri Lanka’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) is currently investigating a ransomware attack on the government’s cloud infrastructure that affected around 5,000 email accounts, it

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12 Sep

China caught – again – with its malware in another nation’s power grid

Espionage-ware thought to have been developed by China has once again been spotted within the power grid of a neighboring nation. According to Symantec’s Threat

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12 Sep

Grab those updates: Microsoft flings out fixes for already-exploited bugs

Patch Tuesday It’s every Windows admin’s favorite day of the month: Patch Tuesday. Microsoft emitted 59 patches for its September update batch, including two for

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12 Sep

OpenSSL 1.1.1 reaches end of life for all but the well-heeled

OpenSSL 1.1.1 has reached the end of its life, making a move to a later version essential for all, bar those with extremely deep pockets.

Author rabih
12 Sep

Save the Children hit by ransomware, 7TB stolen

Updated Cybercrime crew BianLian says it has broken into the IT systems of a top nonprofit and stolen a ton of files, including what the

Author rabih
12 Sep

Google’s Chrome gets caught with its WebP down, offers hasty patch-up

Google has rushed out a fix for a vulnerability in its Chrome browser, noting that an exploit already exists in the wild. The search giant

Author rabih
12 Sep

ESET Research Podcast: Sextortion, digital usury and SQL brute-force

Closing intrusion vectors force cybercriminals to revisit old attack avenues, but also to look for new ways to attack their victims Source

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