Malicious Ads Target Cryptocurrency Users With Cinobi Banking Trojan

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A new social engineering-based malvertising campaign targeting Japan has been found to deliver a malicious application that deploys a banking trojan on compromised Windows machines to steal credentials associated with …

Solution Providers Can Now Add Incident Response to Their Services Portfolio For Free

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The Incident Response (IR) services market is in accelerated growth due to the rise in cyberattacks that result in breaches. More and more organizations, across all sizes and verticals, choose …

Multiple Flaws Affecting Realtek Wi-Fi SDKs Impact Nearly a Million IoT Devices

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Taiwanese chip designer Realtek is warning of four security vulnerabilities in three software development kits (SDKs) accompanying its WiFi modules, which are used in almost 200 IoT devices made by at least …

Attackers Can Weaponize Firewalls and Middleboxes for Amplified DDoS Attacks

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Weaknesses in the implementation of TCP protocol in middleboxes and censorship infrastructure could be weaponized as a vector to stage reflected denial of service (DoS) amplification attacks against any target, surpassing many …

Dozens of STARTTLS Related Flaws Found Affecting Popular Email Clients

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Security researchers have disclosed as many as 40 different vulnerabilities associated with an opportunistic encryption mechanism in mail clients and servers that could open the door to targeted man-in-the-middle (MitM) …

New Glowworm Attack Recovers Device’s Sound from Its LED Power Indicator

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A novel technique leverages optical emanations from a device’s power indicator LED to recover sounds from connected peripherals and spy on electronic conversations from a distance of as much as …

Hackers Spotted Using Morse Code in Phishing Attacks to Evade Detection

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Microsoft has disclosed details of an evasive year-long social engineering campaign wherein the operators kept changing their obfuscation and encryption mechanisms every 37 days on average, including relying on Morse …

Facebook Adds End-to-End Encryption for Audio and Video Calls in Messenger

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Facebook on Friday said it’s extending end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for voice and video calls in Messenger, along with testing a new opt-in setting that will turn on end-to-end encryption for …