Cybersecurity week Round-Up (2018, Week 3) -Let’s try to summarize the most important event occurred last week in 3 minutes. The week started with the discovery of a new variant of the dreaded Mirai Botnet dubbed Okiru, for the first time a malware targets ARC based IoT devices, billions of IoT devices are potentially at […]
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! · Fappening – A fourth man has been charged with hacking into over 250 Apple iCloud accounts belonging to celebrities · Lenovo spotted and fixed a backdoor in RackSwitch and BladeCenter networking switches […]
Security researchers at Check Point have spotted a malware family dubbed RubyMiner that is targeting web servers worldwide in an attempt to exploit their resources to mine Monero cryptocurrency. RubyMiner, was first spotted last week when a massive campaign targeted web servers worldwide, most of them in the United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Norway, and Sweden. The […]
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! · Following recent mass demonstration, Iran Infy group may attempt to target protesters and their foreign contacts · Security Affairs newsletter Round 144 – News of the week · Spear phishing attacks already […]
A group of researchers discovered marketing companies have started exploiting an 11-year-old vulnerability in browsers’ built-in password managers to track visitors. A group of researchers from Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy has discovered that at least two marketing companies, AdThink and OnAudience, that are exploiting an 11-year-old vulnerability in major browsers to track visitors. The researchers […]
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! · Experts from Bleeping Computer spotted a new Cryptomix Ransomware variant · Facebooks photo tagging system now looks for users in photos theyre not tagged in · Financially motivated attacks reveal the interests […]
The South Korea Cryptocurrency Exchange Youbit has gone bankrupt after suffering a major cyber attack for the second time this year. The South Korea Cryptocurrency Exchange Youbit shuts down after suffering a major cyber attack for the second time this year. The company announced bankrupt on Tuesday after being hacked for the second time in the last eight months, […]
Experts from McAfee Labs collected evidence that links DragonFly malware to other hacking campaigns, like BlackEnergy and TeamSpy attacks. On September 6, Symantec published a detailed analysis of the Dragonfly 2.0 campaign that targeted dozens of energy companies this year. Threat actor is the same behind the Dragonfly campaign observed in 2014. Further analysis conducted […]
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! · National Institute of Standards and Technology releases a second Draft of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework · Security Affairs newsletter Round 140 – News of the week · Severe flaws in most popular […]
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! · Halloware Ransomware, a new malware offered for sale on the Dark Web for Only $40 · PayPal-owned company TIO Networks data breach affects 1.6 million customers · Security Affairs newsletter Round 139 […]