Hacking

Facebook reported and blocked attempts to influence campaign ahead of midterms US elections

Facebook removed 32 Facebook and Instagram accounts and pages that were involved in a coordinated operation aimed at influencing the midterm…

8 years ago

Hundreds of apps removed from Google Play store because were carrying Windows malware

Google recently removed 145 applications from the official Google Play store because they were found to carry malicious Windows executables…

8 years ago

SamSam Ransomware operators earned more than US$5.9 Million since late 2015

The security experts from Sophos have published a report on the multimillion-dollar black market business for crooks, they analyzed the SamSam…

8 years ago

Dixons Carphone Data Breach discovered in June affected 10 Million customers

Dixons Carphone announced on Monday that the security breach discovered in June affected around 10 million customers, much more than…

8 years ago

Fileless PowerGhost cryptocurrency miner leverages EternalBlue exploit to spread

Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have spotted a new cryptocurrency miner dubbed PowerGhost that can spread leveraging a fileless infection technique. The…

8 years ago

KICKICO security breach – hackers stole over $7.7 million worth of KICK tokens

ICO platforms are becoming a privileged target for hackers, the last victim in order of time is KickICO, a Blockchain crowdfunding…

8 years ago

FELIXROOT Backdoor is back in a new fresh spam campaign

Security experts from FireEye have spotted a new spam campaign leveraging the FELIXROOT backdoor, a malware used for cyber espionage operation. The FELIXROOT…

8 years ago

Tens of flaws in Samsung SmartThings Hub expose smart home to attack

Cisco Talos researchers found tens of flaws in Samsung SmartThings Hub controller that potentially expose smart home devices to attack…

8 years ago

Mysterious snail mail from China sent to US agencies includes Malware-Laden CD

Several U.S. state and local government agencies have reported receiving suspicious letters via snail mail containing malware-laden CD Crooks and…

8 years ago

Security Affairs newsletter Round 173 – News of the week

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

8 years ago

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