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CloudPets connected toys can be turned into remote surveillance devices

The CloudPets data breach saga continues, as Spiral Toys finally reported the breach to the California Attorney General’s Office. As a reminder: Leaked data provided to …

macOS ransomware
Victims of Filecoder ransomware for macOS can now decrypt their files

Last week, researchers discovered and analyzed a new piece of ransomware targeting a specific subset of Mac users: those who are looking for ways to crack legal copies of some …

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ESET antivirus opens Macs to remote code execution

Like any other software, security software is sure to have some vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers. The latest in a long list of examples that prove this fact …

Android
Germans, Czechs served with banking malware through SMS

German and Czech Android users are getting served with a banking Trojan directly through text messages, warns malware researcher Bart Blaze. The message claims that the user …

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Google releases details, PoC exploit code for IE, Edge flaw

As we’re impatiently waiting for Microsoft to patch vulnerabilities that were scheduled to be fixed in February, Google has released details about a serious …

MySQL
Cyber extortionists hold MySQL databases for ransom

Ransomware has become cyber crooks’ favorite attack methodology for hitting businesses, but not all cyber extortion attempts are effected with this particular type of …

Europe
The failure of EU’s regulation on cyber-surveillance tech exports

When in April 2016 the Italian Ministry of Economical Progress revoked Hacking Team’s licence to export their Galileo remote control software outside of the EU, it …

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Which countermeasures improve security and which are a waste of money?

If you want to know about which cyber defenses are most effective and which are a waste of money and resources, ask a hacker. And that’s just what Nuix researchers did. …

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New attack sounds death knell for widely used SHA-1 crypto hash function

SHA-1 is definitely, provenly dead, as a group of researchers from CWI Institute in Amsterdam and Google have demonstrated the first practical technique for generating a …

Deutsche Telekom
Suspected Deutsche Telekom router hacker arrested

A 29-year-old British national, believed to be the mastermind behind last November’s unsuccessful hijacking attempt of Deutsche Telekom users’ routers, was …

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Removing admin rights mitigates most critical Microsoft vulnerabilities

Avecto has analyzed the security bulletins Microsoft released in the past year, and came to an important conclusion: an overwhelming majority of all the critical Microsoft …

macOS ransomware
New macOS ransomware masquerades as software cracking tools

New crypto ransomware dubbed Filecoder (aka Findzip) is stalking macOS users, ESET researchers warn. Masquerading as an application for cracking/patching legal copies of Adobe …

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