29 Jul

New HiddenAds malware affects 1M+ users and hides on the Google Play Store

Authored by Dexter Shin McAfee’s Mobile Research Team has identified new malware on the Google Play Store. Most of them are disguising themselves as cleaner

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28 Jul

JPMorgan, UBS among trio accused of shoddy ID theft protection

JPMorgan Securities, UBS Financial Services, and TradeStation Securities aren’t doing enough to thwart crooks who want to steal customers’ identity, says America’s financial watchdog. The

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28 Jul

Suspected radiation alert saboteurs cuffed by cops after sensors disabled

Spain’s national police say they have arrested two former government workers suspected of breaking into the computer network of the country’s radioactivity alert system (RAR)

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28 Jul

Google brings Street View back to India following 2016 ban

Google has brought its Street View service – which offers photographs of most locations on Google Maps – back to India, six years after the

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27 Jul

FileWave fixes bugs that left 1,000+ orgs open to ransomware, data theft

FileWave has fixed a couple vulnerabilities in its endpoint management software that could allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication and take full control of

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27 Jul

We’re likely only seeing ‘the tip of the iceberg’ of Pegasus spyware use against the US

Google and internet rights groups have called on Congress to weigh in on spyware, asking for sanctions and increased enforcement against so-called legit surveillanceware makers.

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27 Jul

US puts $10 million bounty on North Korean cyber-crews

The US is offering up to $10 million for information on members of state-sponsored North Korean threat groups, double the amount that the State Department

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27 Jul

Apple network traffic takes mysterious detour through Russia

Apple’s internet traffic took an unwelcome detour through Russian networking equipment for about twelve hours between July 26 and July 27. In a write-up for

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27 Jul

AWS ups security for Elastic Block Store, Kubernetes service

Amazon’s cloud platform is extending security capabilities for a couple of its widely used services; Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

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27 Jul

Knotweed Euro cyber mercenaries attacking private sector, says Microsoft

Microsoft has published an analysis of a Europe-based “private-sector offensive actor” with a view to helping its customers spot signs of attacks by money-hungry gangsters.

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27 Jul

Time from vulnerability disclosures to exploits is shrinking

Palo Alto Networks’ annual Unit 42 incident response report is out, warning of an ever-decreasing gap between vulnerability disclosures and an increase in cybercrime. “The

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27 Jul

NIST’s Expanding International Engagement on Cybersecurity

In providing a foundation for cybersecurity advancements over the years, NIST has taken the global context into account when determining priorities and approaches. Our participation

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27 Jul

Weak data protection helped China attack US Federal Reserve, report says

China’s cyber espionage activities are extensive and sophisticated but when the Middle Kingdom tried to steal sensitive economic data from the US Fed, poor security

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27 Jul

IBM puts NIST’s quantum-resistant crypto to work in Z16 mainframe

IBM has started offering quantum-resistant crypto – using the quantum-resistant crypto recommended by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Quantum computers are

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27 Jul

Vietnamese attacker circumvents Facebook security with ‘DUCKTAIL’ malware

Security vendor WithSecure, which was spun out in March 2022 as F-Secure’s enterprise security arm, claims it’s found malware that targets Facebook Business accounts. “The

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27 Jul

Charter told to pay $7.3b in damages after cable installer murders grandmother

Charter Communications must pay out $7 billion in damages after one of its Spectrum cable technicians robbed and killed an elderly woman, a jury decided

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26 Jul

Crypto exchange Kraken reportedly hunted by the Feds for alleged sanctions busting

The US government is reportedly investigating Kraken, a massive cryptocurrency exchange suspected of violating sanctions against Iran, and is expected to slap the crypto behemoth

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26 Jul

Culture shock: Ransomware gang sacks arts orgs’ email lists

A ransomware gang has not only taken down WordFly, a mailing list provider for top arts organizations among others, but also siphoned data belonging to

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