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CS:GO players targeted with phishing attempt, malware

Typosquatting is an effective means to trick users into believing they have landed on the legitimate site they wanted to visit, so it’s no wonder that it’s often …

Cyber crooks take advantage of ad bidding networks to deliver ransomware

Malware peddlers are taking advantage of real time advertising bidding networks to deliver ransomware to unsuspecting users, FireEye researchers are warning. “Real Time …

Analysis of Equation Group’s espionage platform discovers another link to the NSA

Kaspersky Lab researchers continue to analyze the software and digital artifacts tied to the Equation Group, a nation-state threat actor that has been active for almost twenty …

Microsoft patches flaw exploited by Stuxnet – again

Among the vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft in this month’s Patch Tuesday is one that was supposedly patched back in 2010. The Windows Shell Shortcut Icon Loading …

Flaw in Dropbox SDK for Android lets attackers steal data sent to users’ account

Researchers from IBM’s security team have discovered an authentication flaw in the Dropbox Software Development Kit (SDK) for Android that can be exploited to capture …

Unpatched security vulnerabilities affecting Facebook

A web security researcher from Portugal has discovered several vulnerabilities affecting Facebook that he considers to be serious, but hasn’t had much success convincing …

Apple Watch scams target Twitter and Facebook users

It didn’t take long for spammers to jump on the Apple Watch bandwagon – they set up a Twitter account named “Apple Giveaways”, and began spamming out …

Core Infrastructure Initiative kickstarts OpenSSL audit

Cryptography Services, a team of consultants from several security research firms, have announced that they have been tasked with auditing OpenSSL, the popular and widely used …

Beware of fake invites for WhatsApp’s Free Voice Calling feature!

Fake WhatsApp invites are actively luring users to sites where they are urged to fill out surveys and download unknown applications, warns The Hacker News’ Mohit Kumar. …

Apple issued update for FREAK flaw in OS X and iOS

Apple has released security updates for OS X and iOS which, among other things, fix the FREAK flaw that may allow an attacker to decrypt secure communications between …

Active campaigns deliver old and new ransomware families

Cyber crooks’ love for ransomware continues unabated, and user are warned about several active campaigns trying to deliver the malware on target computers. The campaigns …

The Pentagon is looking to hire 3,000 infosec pros

The US Department of Defense has gotten permission and is aiming to hire 3,000 infosec professionals to work at the US Cyber Command by the end of this year, and is set to …

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