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How Microsoft found a Huawei driver that opened systems to attack
Huawei MateBook systems that are running the company's PCManager software included a driver that would let unprivileged users create processes with superuser privileges. The insecure driver was discovered by Microsoft using some of the new monitoring features added to Windows version 1809 that are monitored by the company's Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) service.
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The Morris worm at 30
Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth UK, and Eugene H. Spafford, Purdue University USA, turn the clock back 30 years and show that, though bigger, the internet might not be much safer.
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Triton is the world’s most murderous malware, and it’s spreading
As an experienced cyber first responder, Julian Gutmanis had been called plenty of times before to help companies deal with the fallout from cyberattacks. But when the Australian security consultant was summoned to a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2017, what he found made his blood run cold.
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Lenovo to pay $7.3m for installing adware in 750,000 laptops
In 2015, Beijing based laptop manufacturer and seemingly reliable technology company Lenovo made headlines that its 750,000 laptops had pre-installed adware called VisualDiscovery developed by Superfish. The adware played a vital role in compromising online security protections installed by the users on their laptops, accessed financial data and performed man-in-the-middle attack on private and secure connections due to which attackers could gain free access to the system and spied on encrypted communications.
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Civil servant who watched porn at work blamed for infecting a US government network with malware
A U.S. government network was infected with malware thanks to one employee’s “extensive history” of watching porn on his work computer, investigators have found.
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Hackers hide cryptocurrency mining malware in Adobe Flash updates
Cryptocurrency scammers have gotten extra creative and are now hiding mining malware in legitimate updates of Adobe Flash Player. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks discovered a fake Flash updater which has been doing the rounds since early August. While it claims to install a legitimate Flash update, the malicious file sneaks in a cryptocurrency mining bot called XMRig (which mines privacy coin Monero).
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If your Android mobile is running slowly and loosing battery quickly, it might have been hacked - RS Post
If your Android phone is running slowly, loosing battery quick or is overheating more than usual, it is probably hacked. Lately many hackers have been mining cryptocurrency on smartphones and Android was a better target than Apple’s iphones. In the best case if your phone was hacked and it is mining crypto, it will overheat, slow down and you will have to charge your battery a lot. But worse things could happen. Your phone could end up permanently damaged.
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A New Pacemaker Hack Puts Malware Directly On the Device
The first pacemaker hacks emerged about a decade ago. But the latest variation on the terrifying theme depends not on manipulating radio commands, as many previous attacks have, but on malware installed directly on an implanted pacemaker. For nearly two years, researchers Billy Rios of the security firm Whitescope and Jonathan Butts of QED Secure Solutions have gone back and forth with pacemaker manufacturer...
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How to Remove Noad VarianceTV Adware
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How to Recognise Malware Links and What to Do If You Accidentally Click
You've all heard the warnings by now: don't click on unknown links, as doing so could infect your device with malware. Whether it's a link in an email from
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FBI issues formal warning on massive malware network linked to Russia
The FBI on Friday issued a formal warning that a sophisticated Russia-linked hacking campaign is compromising hundreds of thousands of home network devices worldwide and it is advising owners to reboot these devices in an attempt to disrupt the malicious software.
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Data Breach: Chili's Grill & Bar customer payment information hacked
Customers who visited certain Chili's Grill & Bar restaurants between March and April may have had their payment information stolen by hackers according to a notice released by Chili's parent company Brinker International last week. According to the notice originally issued on May 12, the company learned of the data breach the day before. Additional information released by Brinker suggests that malware was used to gather guest payment information, including credit and debit card numbers, cardholder names, and potentially expiration dates and CVV codes.
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Russian Pleads Guilty to Aiding Massive Hacks in U.S.
A Russian national who was extradited to the U.S. last year over Kremlin objections pleaded guilty in a Virginia federal courtroom Monday to conspiracy and aiding and abetting computer intrusion, admitting he operated a dark web service that helped thousands of hackers conceal malware from detection.
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Virus-infected devices given out by police
Police have apologised after giving infected memory sticks as prizes in a government-run cyber-security quiz. Taiwan's national police agency said 54 of the flash drives it gave out at an event highlighting a government's cybercrime crackdown contained malware. The virus, which can steal personal data and has been linked to fraud, was added inadvertently, it said.
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HP Quietly Installs System-Slowing Spyware On Its PCs, Users Say
It hasn't been long since Lenovo settled a massive $3.5 million fine for preinstalling adware on laptops without users' consent, and it appears HP is on to the same route already. According to numerous reports gathered by news outlet Computer World, the brand is deploying a telemetry client on customer computers without asking permission. The software, called "HP Touchpoint Analytics Service", appears to replace the self-managed HP Touchpoint Manager solution. To make matter worse, the suite seems to be slowing down PCs, users say.
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Malware in firmware can be as equally creative as it can be destructive
Malware in firmware can be both creative and destructive and runs before the OS loads and target components in order to modify or subvert their behavior. By Cassius Puodzius.
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Canada's 'super secret spy agency' is releasing a malware-fighting tool to the public
Canada's electronic spy agency says it is taking the "unprecedented step" of releasing one of its own cyber defence tools to the public, in a bid to help companies and organizations better defend their computers and networks against malicious threats.
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CCleaner malware outbreak is much worse than it first appeared
Microsoft, Cisco, and VMWare among those infected with additional mystery payload.
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711 million email addresses ensnared in "largest" malware spambot
A huge spambot ensnaring 711 million email accounts has been uncovered. A Paris-based security researcher, who goes by the pseudonymous handle Benkow, discovered an open and accessible web server hosted in the Netherlands, which stores dozens of text files containing a huge batch of email addresses, passwords, and email servers used to send spam.
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Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con
Marcus Hutchins, AKA MalwareTech, previously registered a specific domain included in the ransomware’s code, which stopped the malware from spreading.
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