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As many as 30 malicious Android apps with cumulative downloads of nearly 10 million have been found on the Google Play Store distributing adware. "All of them were built into various programs, including image-editing software, virtual keyboards, system tools and utilities, calling apps, wallpaper collection apps, and others," Dr.Web said in a Tuesday write-up. While masquerading as innocuous Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10975661172932160797noreply@blogger.com

To really secure software, you need to know what's inside its code. That's why a software bill of materials is essential today. It used to be that we didn't worry that much about our code's security. Bad binaries, sure. The code itself? Not so much. We were so foolish.

Nowadays, Linux systems are considered fairly secure, as people think that Linux rarely gets infected with malware such as viruses, rootkits, worms, etc. You might also see that we hardly ever come across Antivirus software being sold for Linux, giving the illusion that Linux is an ultimately secure Operating System. Given that roughly 75 percent of the world's servers run on Linux, we can't truly believe that Linux is as secure as we think it is. Linux is only as secure as the person controlling and configuring it. Essentially, if a user has bad security practices, e.g. opening unauthorized emails or downloading potentially malicious links, then there is a very high chance that their Linux system will be compromised.

Facebook business and advertising accounts are at the receiving end of an ongoing campaign dubbed Ducktail designed to seize control as part of a financially driven cybercriminal operation.  "The threat actor targets individuals and employees that may have access to a Facebook Business account with an information-stealer malware," Finnish cybersecurity company WithSecure (formerly F-Secure Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10975661172932160797noreply@blogger.com

Software vulnerabilities are a major threat to organizations today. The cost of these threats is significant, both financially and in terms of reputation.Vulnerability management and patching can easily get out of hand when the number of vulnerabilities in your organization is in the hundreds of thousands of vulnerabilities and tracked in inefficient ways, such as using Excel spreadsheets or The Hacker Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16801458706306167627noreply@blogger.com

V operačním systému Windows 7 byla objevena nebezpečná trhlina, kterou mohou útočníci zneužít k propašování prakticky libovolného škodlivého kódu do napadeného stroje. Stačí jim přitom k tomu program Kalkulačka (Windows Calculator), který je nedílnou součástí operačního systému.

Threat actors are increasingly abusing Internet Information Services (IIS) extensions to backdoor servers as a means of establishing a "durable persistence mechanism." That's according to a new warning from the Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team, which said that "IIS backdoors are also harder to detect since they mostly reside in the same directories as legitimate modules used by target Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10975661172932160797noreply@blogger.com

Newly discovered malware linked to Vietnamese threat actors targets users through a LinkedIn phishing campaign to steal data and admin privileges for financial gain.

Cybersecurity researchers have reiterated similarities between the latest iteration of the LockBit ransomware and BlackMatter, a rebranded variant of the DarkSide ransomware strain that closed shop in November 2021. The new version of LockBit, called LockBit 3.0 aka LockBit Black, was released in June 2022, launching a brand new leak site and what's the very first ransomware bug bounty program, Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10975661172932160797noreply@blogger.com

The financial services industry has always been at the forefront of technology adoption, but the 2020 pandemic accelerated the widespread of mobile banking apps, chat-based customer service, and other digital tools. Adobe's 2022 FIS Trends Report, for instance, found that more than half of the financial services and insurance firms surveyed experienced a notable increase in digital/mobile The Hacker Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16801458706306167627noreply@blogger.com

Čína se již potřetí rozhodla nechat neřízeně spadnout obrovský raketový stupeň zpět na Zemi. Tentokrát se jedná o první stupeň rakety Dlouhý pochod 5B, který dle pozorování Jonathana McDowella z Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics váží asi 21 tun, uvádí web Space.com. „Oběžná dráha ...

Instances of phishing attacks leveraging the Microsoft brand increased 266 percent in Q1 compared to the year prior.

The increased proliferation of IoT devices paved the way for the rise of IoT botnets that amplifies DDoS attacks today. This is a dangerous warning that the possibility of a sophisticated DDoS attack and a prolonged service outage will prevent businesses from growing.

As many as 207 websites have been infected with malicious code designed to launch a cryptocurrency miner by leveraging WebAssembly (Wasm) on the browser. Web security company Sucuri, which published details of the campaign, said it launched an investigation after one of its clients had their computer slowed down significantly every time upon navigating to their own WordPress portal. This Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10975661172932160797noreply@blogger.com

IBM is not just introducing new mainframes, but a new way of paying for on premises big iron that makes mainframes cheaper than they've even before.

FileWave's mobile device management (MDM) system has been found vulnerable to two critical security flaws that could be leveraged to carry out remote attacks and seize control of a fleet of devices connected to it. "The vulnerabilities are remotely exploitable and enable an attacker to bypass authentication mechanisms and gain full control over the MDM platform and its managed devices," Claroty Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10975661172932160797noreply@blogger.com

An information-stealing malware called Amadey is being distributed by means of another backdoor called SmokeLoader. The attacks hinge on tricking users into downloading SmokeLoader that masquerades as software cracks, paving the way for the deployment of Amadey, researchers from the AhnLab Security Emergency Response Center (ASEC) said in a report published last week. Amadey, a Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10975661172932160797noreply@blogger.com

Malicious actors are exploiting a previously unknown security flaw in the open source PrestaShop e-commerce platform to inject malicious skimmer code designed to swipe sensitive information. "Attackers have found a way to use a security vulnerability to carry out arbitrary code execution in servers running PrestaShop websites," the company noted in an advisory published on July 22. PrestaShop isRavie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10975661172932160797noreply@blogger.com

Technically, it's not a fine, and the lawyers will get a big chunk of it. But it still adds up to a half-billion-dollar data breach.

Pomocí vysílačů mobilního signálu se čínská společnost Huawei zřejmě pokusila na středozápadě USA nabourat šifrovanou komunikaci strategického velitelství americké armády, která dohlíží na jaderný arzenál. Upozornila na to o víkendu stanice CNN.