A critical security flaw in Microsoft Office for Mac puts users at risk of remote attacks, researchers with Carnegie Mellon University's CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) have discovered. The flaw …
The First BlueKeep Mass Hacking Is Finally Here—but Don’t Panic
Threat actors are actively exploiting the critical BlueKeep flaw that impacts Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementations on unpatched older Windows operating systems. Microsoft and other companies …
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People are the very first element in a pragmatic cybersecurity strategy
A new survey by Avertium shows that as many as 39% of organizations are under-prepared to respond to a data breach, and about three in four are having difficulty dealing with the rising number of …
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Solar, Wind Power Utility Disrupted in Rare Cyberattack
In March of this year, Utah-based renewable energy provider sPower suffered a denial-of-service (DoS) attack resulting in multiple short periods of downtime at the firm's main control center. …
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Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in Korea-Linked Attacks
Threat actors recently took advantage of a zero-day flaw in the Google Chrome browser in order to serve malware to users via a compromised website, a report by Kaspersky shows. The vulnerability, …
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Ransomware School: The Rise of GandCrab Disciples
The highly successful GandCrab ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) platform that retired over the summer, turned the ransomware market from a loose collection of private and silent developers into a lively …
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Hackers Claim ‘Any’ Smartphone Fingerprint Lock Can Be Broken In 20 Minutes
Security researchers with Tencent's X-Lab have found a way to use photographs of fingerprints in order to beat the fingerprint scanner on virtually all Android phones as well as iPhone 8 and older …
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Android bug lets hackers plant malware via NFC beaming
A serious flaw in the Android operating system could have allowed threat actors to distribute malware via NFC beaming, an Android service that uses NFC (Near-Field Communication) radio waves in order …
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Nikkei Hit in $29m BEC Scam
Japanese Media firm Nikkei, which owns the Financial Times, was scammed out of $29 million dollars in September of this year because a staff member of its US subsidiary fell for what seems to have …
Sketchy Android keyboard app with 40M downloads makes money off unauthorized purchases
A popular unofficial Android keyboard app that has been installed more than 40 million times, secretly engages in click-fraud and steals money from users by signing them up to paid subscriptions …