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A JavaScript library that scores over two million downloads every week has been injected with malicious code for stealing coins from a cryptocurrency wallet. The affected package is Event-Stream, built to simplify working with Node.js streaming modules and it is available Read More …
Cisco Talos discovered a new malware campaign targeting a commercial Lebanese airline company, as well as United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Lebanon government domains. According to Cisco Talos’ findings, the recently observed campaign could not be connected to other threat Read More …
A mobile malware has accelerated its activity in 2018, launching more than 70k attacks in August through October. Mobile malware, dubbed Rotexy, has evolved from being spyware to now a dangerous banking trojan packing a host of new clever features. Read More …
The German government published at the start of the month an initial draft for rules on securing Small Office and Home Office (SOHO) routers. Published by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), the rules have been put together Read More …
Not a day seems to go by when there isn’t a story in the media about a data breach, commercial espionage or a cyber intrusion where there is ‘no evidence that any data was stolen’. The narrative that companies didn’t Read More …
Ukrainian police have arrested a 42-old-man on charges of infecting over 2,000 users across 50 countries with the DarkComet remote access trojan (RAT). The man was arrested this week after police executed a search warrant at his residence in the Read More …
New research on an old problem reveals despite efforts, the InfoSec professionals still have a way to go when it comes to securing printers. Despite copious warnings and efforts by the security community to harden the defenses of printers, they Read More …
Academics from the Vrije University in Amsterdam, Holland, have published a research paper today describing a new variation of the Rowhammer attack. For readers unfamiliar with the term, Rowhammer is the name of a class of exploits that takes advantage Read More …
500,000 certified Italian public administration emails were compromised by hackers who specifically targeted the Italian Comitato Interministeriale per la Sicurezza della Repubblica (CISR) as reported by Difesa e Sicurezza. Although CISR was the primary target, the hackers also compromised certified Read More …
Three years ago, artificial intelligence company DeepMind embarked on a landmark effort to transform health care in the U.K. Now plans by owner Alphabet Inc. to wrap the partnership into its Google search engine business are tripping alarm bells about privacy. Data Read More …
