Beware!! King of Malware Emotet Attack Windows User Via Weaponized Excel Files

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Researchers uncovered an infamous and widely distributed malware Emotet, now targeting Windows users by employing a malicious Excel File after six months after its last activity. Emotet is considered a kind of malware family among the malware research community due to …

Hackers Hide Information-Stealing Malware in PNG Files Using Steganography

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Experts at Avast, who built on the discoveries of ESET, the first to notice and report on the threat group known as “Worok”, conceals malware within PNG images to silently infect victims’ computers with information-stealing malware. Reports say it targets …

4 Common Threats A Web Application Firewall Can Prevent From Cyber Attack

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A Web Application Firewall (WAF) is a tool that filters the incoming and outgoing traffic at the application layer. Based on the pre-set rules by a business and WAF provider, it either blocks the traffic it deems malicious or allows …

$70,000 Bug Let Hackers Bypass Google Pixel Lock Screen Pattern & Password

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David Schütz, a security researcher, has identified a critical bug in the Google Pixel phones that allow hackers to bypass the passcode and pattern lock with the consent of having physical access to the vulnerable device. A critical Lock screen …

Lawsuit Seeks Food Benefits Stolen By Skimmers

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A nonprofit organization is suing the state of Massachusetts on behalf of thousands of low-income families who were collectively robbed of more than a $1 million in food assistance benefits by card skimming devices secretly installed at cash machines and …

Nuclear Engineer and his Wife Sentenced for Trying to Sell Nuclear Warship Design Secrets

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Jonathan Toebbe, aged 43, an employee of the Department of the Navy who served as a nuclear engineer was arrested after trying to sell military secrets, related to the design of U.S. nuclear warships, to a foreign government.  Diana Toebbe, …

Microsoft Security Update Patches 6 Actively Exploited Zero-day Including 62 New Bugs

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Microsoft released a security update under the November Patch Tuesday with the fixes of 68 security vulnerabilities including 6 actively exploited zero-days that affect several Microsoft products. In this list of Vulnerabilities, 12 Vulnerabilities were marked as “Critical”, 2 were …

U.S. Uncovered Hacker Who Stole 50,000 Bitcoins From The Silk Road Dark Web

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Silk Road was robbed by James Zhong, 32, of Gainesville and Athens, Georgia a decade ago of more than $3.36 billion in bitcoin (51,351.89785803 bitcoins), which was recovered recently by federal prosecutors. James Zhong is a dreadful hacker and as …

Patch Tuesday, November 2022 Election Edition

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Let’s face it: Having “2022 election” in the headline above is probably the only reason anyone might read this story today. Still, while most of us here in the United States are anxiously awaiting the results of how well we’ve …

29 Weaponized Python PyPI Packages Aimed to Infect Developers With Malware

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The Python Package Index (PyPI) has been found to contain 29 potentially malicious packages. In most of these cases, you will find that the obfuscated code drops an info-stealer called “W4SP” on infected machines. Others take advantage of malware that …