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Google Dev uncovers TP-Link SR20 router Zero-day vulnerability
Google security expert Matthew Garrett discloses Zero-day arbitrary code execution vulnerability after 90-day silence from TP-Link.
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News Web browsers and vulnerabilities March 29, 2019
Tech support scam scheme cost Office Depot and Support.com $35 Million
Office Depot companies and Support.com provided users with "PC Health Check" app that convinced them to buy diagnostic and repair services.
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UC Browser apps have been exposing users to MiTM attacks
UC Browser is found to contain malicious ability to expose its users to remote attackers.
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News Web browsers and vulnerabilities March 27, 2019
Operation ShadowHammer: ASUS Live Update software pushed malware
Hackers hijacked updates propagated via ASUS Live Update Utility to install backdoors on thousands of users' PCs.
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News Viruses and parasites March 26, 2019
Gandcrab 5.2 spread via false CDC emails that warn about a Flu pandemic
Crooks spread Gancrab 5.2 ransomware via suspicious email messages that pretend to be from the Centers for Disease and Control Prevention.
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News Viruses and parasites March 25, 2019
Facebook users' passwords stored in plaintext by accident since 2012
Hundreds of millions of Facebook users' passwords stored in plaintext since 2012 by accident.
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Police Federation hit by ransomware that locked files and deleted backups
UK's Police Federation announced a malware attack that not only encrypted files on networks but also erased some of the backups.
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News Viruses and parasites March 22, 2019
After defrauding Google and Facebook, Lithuanian faces up to 30 year sentence
Lithuanian sentenced for 30 years of prison for scamming Google and Facebook.
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News March 21, 2019
Aluminum producer Norsk Hydro hit by LockerGoga ransomware
A high-profile organization Norsk Hydro had to switch to manual operations after LockerGoga ransomware infected its IT infrastructure.
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News Viruses and parasites March 20, 2019
Latest Boeing 737 accidents used to spread malware via email spam
Hackers are persuading users to open a malicious file that allegedly contains information about the two recent Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashes.
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News Spam and phishing March 19, 2019
STOP ransomware variant now incorporates password stealer Azorult
The new strain of STOP ransomware also downloads and installs Azorult, an info-stealing trojan that is capable of harvesting the most sensitive data.
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News Viruses and parasites March 18, 2019
Two-thirds of Android anti-malware tools on Google Play are useless
The 2019 Android Test results published by AV-Comparatives showed that most apps provide inadequate protection from malware.
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Zero-day exploits used in 1.6 Counter-Strike servers to spread malware
39% of Counter-Strike 1.6 active servers are exploited via the remote code execution vulnerabilities.
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Patch Tuesday ensured automatic buggy update removal on Windows 10
Windows 10 will now uninstall faulty updates automatically, without user intervention.
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News March 13, 2019
Two Ukranian men sued for scraping data on Facebook from 63k users
Facebook is suing two Ukrainians who used quick apps to illegally harvest private data of 63k users for advertisement purposes.
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