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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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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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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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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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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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How to Remove Noad VarianceTV Adware
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Invisible Malware Is Here and Your Security Software Can't Catch It
Sophisticated attackers are now using "invisible malware," a new form of attack that your firewalls can't stop and your anti-malware software can't find nor remove. Here are steps you can take right now to protect your servers and network.
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Triton is the world’s most murderous malware, and it’s spreading
When the Australian security consultant Julian Gutmanis was summoned to a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2017, what he found made his blood run cold. By Martin Giles. (Mar. 5, 2019)
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Samsung tells owners of its QLED TVs to manually scan for malware every few weeks
What just happened? Do you own a Samsung QLED TV? If so, the company is advising that you regularly check for malware using its built-in virus scanner. Unsurprisingly, this hasn’t gone down well with most people.
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'Legit Apps Turned into Spyware' Targeting Android Users in Middle East
Legit Android Apps Turned into Spyware Malware App Targeting Users in Middle East
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25 Million Android Phones Infected With Malware That 'Hides In WhatsApp'
Fraudsters have managed to infect millions of Android phones via an Alibaba-owned app store, researchers claim.
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Windows malware strain records users on adult sites
New Varenyky trojan records videos of users navigating adult sites. Currently targeting only French users.
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