Security and spyware news
Stay safe online - 2019-10-19
Monero-mining malware found in the European international airport
Security researchers uncovered crypto-malware that affected over 50% of the systems of an unknown European airport.
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News Viruses and parasites
2019-10-18
WAV audio files filled with the malicious Monero miner and backdoors
A malicious code with Monero cryptominers and backdoors is found hidden in WAV audio files.
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News Viruses and parasites
2019-10-17
Apple accused of sending user browsing data to China's tech giant Tencent
"Fraudulent Website Warning" function included in Safari reveals user's IP addresses to Chinese company Tencent.
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Postage company Pitney Bowes falls victim to ransomware
Global mailing and shipping company suffers from malware attack that encrypts systems and disrupts its work.
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News Viruses and parasites
2019-10-15
White hat's revenge: Muhstik actors hacked back, decryption keys released
White hat hacker battleck hacked into Muhstik ransomware-used servers and released almost 3,000 decryption keys to public.
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News Viruses and parasites
2019-10-14
Europe warns: 5G networks can increase state-backed hacker attacks
European Commission and the European Agency for Cybersecurity reports about potentially increased security risks due to 5G technology.
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ITunes zero-day exploited to install BitPaymer ransomware on Windows
Attackers use iTunes zero-day to bypass the detection of anti-virus software.
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News Viruses and parasites
2019-10-11
Methodist Hospitals data breach may has involved around 70K potential victims
Methodist Hospitals discovered two employee email accounts that have been exposing patient-related data.
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Twitter allowed 2FA data for filtering sponsored ad audiences
Twitter 2FA mobile phone numbers and email addresses made reachable for Partner Audiences and Tailor Audiences advertising services.
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News Spam and phishing
2019-10-10
Tū Ora Compass Health fails to secure sensitive data of million people
Health organization faces a data breach that exposed personal medical information of roughly 1 million people.
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FIFA 20 e-sports site leaked data of 1,600 pro players
Electronic Arts managed to shut down the compromised site within 30 minutes, although 1,600 participants' data was already exposed.
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Microsoft warns: Iranian hackers target 2020 U.S presidential campaign
Microsoft discovers recent Iranian hacking group Phosphorus campaigns that target politicians in the U.S.
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Several Android phone models impacted by a critical zero-day vulnerability
The critical flaw that is exploited in the wild affects phone models from Samsung, Huawei, Pixel, and others.
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News Web browsers and vulnerabilities
2019-10-04
Delivering GIFs via WhatsApp could have resulted in Android phone hack
WhatsApp patches the flaw helping hackers to misuse the malicious code in GIF image libraries.
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VBulletin zero-day used to leak data of 245,000 Comodo forum users
Security software maker Comodo admitted that it suffered data breach due to the vBulletin CVE-2019-16759 vulnerability.
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