Security Affairs newsletter Round 152 – News of the week

8 years ago

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again…

Recent Memcached DDoS attacks drive RDoS extortion practice

8 years ago

Crooks already started to blackmail companies asking for a ransom demand in Monero cryptocurrency to avoid being attacked via Memcached…

GCHQ fears energy smart meters could expose millions of Bretons to hack

8 years ago

In the United Kingdom, new smart energy meters that are set to be installed in 27 million homes were found…

Bitcoin-linked heist: thieves stolen 600 powerful computers in Iceland

8 years ago

Thieves steal 600 powerful computers in a huge heist in Iceland with the intent to use them for mining Bitcoin.…

Over 40 models of low-cost Android devices shipped with Triada banking Trojan

8 years ago

Security researchers at Dr.Web have discovered over 40 models of low-cost Android smartphones are shipped with the dreaded Android Triada banking…

A flaw in HP Remote Management hardware Integrated Lights-Out 3 leaves expose servers to DoS

8 years ago

Hewlett Packard Enterprise issued a security patch to address a vulnerability (CVE-2017-8987) in HP remote management hardware Integrated Lights-Out 3.…

Microsoft released Windows Updates that include Intel’s Spectre microcode patches

8 years ago

Microsoft announced this week the release of the microcode updates to address the Spectre vulnerability. Last week Intel released microcode…

Github hit by the biggest-ever DDoS attack that peaked 1.35 Tbs

8 years ago

On February 28, 2018, the popular GitHub's code hosting website was hit by the largest-ever distributed denial of service (DDoS)…

Equifax confirmed additional 2.4 Million identifies affected by security breach

8 years ago

The results of the forensic investigation on the massive Equifax hack revealed additional 2.4 Million identities were involved in the security…

CannibalRAT, a RAT entirely written in Python observed in targeted attacks

8 years ago

Security researchers from Cisco Talos discovered a new remote access Trojan (RAT) dubbed CannibalRAT that has been written entirely in Python.…

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