Twitter deletes over 10,000 accounts that aim to influence U.S. voting

Twitter deletes over 10,000 accounts that aim to influence U.S. voting Twitter announced to have deleted more than 10,000 accounts managed ...

SamSam ransomware continues to make damages. Call it targeted Ransomware

SamSam ransomware continues to make damages. Call it targeted Ransomware According to the Symantec experts, the group behind the SamSam ran...

Crooks offered for sale private messages for 81k Facebook accounts

Crooks offered for sale private messages for 81k Facebook accounts Cybercriminals offered for sale private messages from at least 81,000 Fa...

Joshua Adam Schulte, ex CIA employee, accused of continuing leaks from prison

Joshua Adam Schulte, ex CIA employee, accused of continuing leaks from prison Federal prosecutors accuse former CIA employee Joshua Adam Sc...

Thunderbird Version 52.9 addresses several issues, including the EFAIL flaw

Thunderbird Version 52.9 addresses several issues, including the EFAIL flaw The Thunderbird team released a new version of the popular emai...

Why Banning Risks to Cybersecurity Doesn’t Actually Improve Cybersecurity

Why Banning Risks to Cybersecurity Doesn’t Actually Improve Cybersecurity There’s a prevailing mindset that suggests if organizations ban a...

Crooks leverage obfuscated Coinhive shortlink in a large crypto-mining operation

Crooks leverage obfuscated Coinhive shortlink in a large crypto-mining operation Crooks leverage an alternative scheme to mine cryptocurren...

Cyber attack exposes sensitive data about a nuclear power plant in France

Cyber attack exposes sensitive data about a nuclear power plant in France A cyber attack on a French firm Ingerop allowed attackers to acce...

CISCO warn of a zero-day DoS flaw that is being actively exploited in attacks

CISCO warn of a zero-day DoS flaw that is being actively exploited in attacks Security experts from CISCO warn of a zero-day vulnerability ...

Top Australia Defence company Austal notifies a serious security breach

Top Australia Defence company Austal notifies a serious security breach Austal, a top Australia defence firm reports also working with the ...

FIFA was hacked again, this is the second hack in a year

FIFA was hacked again, this is the second hack in a year According to the New York Times, FIFA has suffered the second hack in a year, new ...

BLEEDINGBIT Bluetooth flaws in TI chips expose enterprises to remote attacks

BLEEDINGBIT Bluetooth flaws in TI chips expose enterprises to remote attacks Two vulnerabilities in new Bluetooth chip, dubbed BLEEDINGBIT ...

‘Aaron Smith’ Sextortion scam campaigns hit tens of thousands of individuals

‘Aaron Smith’ Sextortion scam campaigns hit tens of thousands of individuals Security experts from Cisco Talos have uncovered two recent se...

0x20k of Ghost Squad Hackers Releases ODay Exploit Targeting Apache Hadoop

0x20k of Ghost Squad Hackers Releases ODay Exploit Targeting Apache Hadoop 0x20k of Ghost Squad Hackers has released the full source code o...

Iran hit by a more aggressive and sophisticated Stuxnet version

Iran hit by a more aggressive and sophisticated Stuxnet version Iran’s strategic network was hit by a new destructive and sophisticated ver...

Cyber Defense Magazine – November 2018 has arrived. Enjoy it!

Cyber Defense Magazine – November 2018 has arrived. Enjoy it! Cyber Defense Magazine November 2018 Edition has arrived. Sponsored by: Bosch...

85 Millions of voter records available for sale ahead of the 2018 US Midterm Elections

85 Millions of voter records available for sale ahead of the 2018 US Midterm Elections Ahead of the 2018 US midterm elections, sellers are ...

The Radisson Hotel Group has suffered a data breach

The Radisson Hotel Group has suffered a data breach The hotel chain Radisson Hotel Group suffered a security breach that exposed personal i...

Just my RANT! People Problems Progress

Just my RANT! People Problems Progress Here comes the bloody RANT! It has been awhile since i spent time in front of my laptop looking at ...

Adware already infected at least 78000 Fortnite Players

Adware already infected at least 78000 Fortnite Players Rainway reported that tens of thousands of Fortnite players have been infected with...

The GandCrab ransomware V4 appears in the threat landscape

The GandCrab ransomware V4 appears in the threat landscape A new variant of the infamous GandCrab ransomware V4 was released during the wee...

Cyber mercenaries and insiders hired by Chinese intelligence to hack aerospace and tech firms

Cyber mercenaries and insiders hired by Chinese intelligence to hack aerospace and tech firms According to the U.S. Department of Justice, ...

A few hours after Apple released iOS 12.1, a researcher presented a Passcode Bypass issue

A few hours after Apple released iOS 12.1, a researcher presented a Passcode Bypass issue A few hours after Apple released iOS 12.1 the iPh...

Girl Scouts data breach exposed personal information of 2,800 members

Girl Scouts data breach exposed personal information of 2,800 members A Girl Scouts of America branch in California suffered a security bre...

Windows Defender is the first antivirus solution that can run in a sandbox

Windows Defender is the first antivirus solution that can run in a sandbox Windows Defender, the Windows built-in anti-malware tool, implem...

The author of the Mirai botnet gets six months of house arrest

The author of the Mirai botnet gets six months of house arrest Paras Jha (22), the author of the Mirai botnet has been sentenced to six mon...

Recently discovered DemonBot Botnet targets Hadoop servers

Recently discovered DemonBot Botnet targets Hadoop servers Security experts from Radware have spotted a new botnet dubbed DemonBot that it ...

Huawei enterprise and broadcast products have a crypto bug. Fix it now!

Huawei enterprise and broadcast products have a crypto bug. Fix it now! Huawei has rolled out security fixes for some enterprise and broadc...

Siemens warns of several flaws affecting Central Plant Clocks

Siemens warns of several flaws affecting Central Plant Clocks Siemens disclosed several vulnerabilities in some of its SICLOCK central plan...

Rowhammer Evolves into RAMpage Exploit, Targeting Android Phones Since 2012

Rowhammer Evolves into RAMpage Exploit, Targeting Android Phones Since 2012 rThis week researchers demonstrated that most Android phones re...

Systemd flaw could cause the crash or hijack of vulnerable Linux machines

Systemd flaw could cause the crash or hijack of vulnerable Linux machines Systemd is affected by a security vulnerability that can be explo...

IBM buys Red Hat for $34 Billion, it is largest software transaction in history

IBM buys Red Hat for $34 Billion, it is largest software transaction in history IBM announced it is going to buy the open source company Re...

Crooks continue to abuse exposed Docker APIs for Cryptojacking

Crooks continue to abuse exposed Docker APIs for Cryptojacking Cybercriminals continue to abuse unprotected Docker APIs to create new conta...

Security Affairs newsletter Round 186 – News of the week

Security Affairs newsletter Round 186 – News of the week A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the...

The Belgacom hack was the work of the UK GCHQ intelligence agency

The Belgacom hack was the work of the UK GCHQ intelligence agency Belgian newspaper reported that investigators had found proof that the Be...

How to deliver malware using weaponized Microsoft Office docs embedding YouTube video

How to deliver malware using weaponized Microsoft Office docs embedding YouTube video Researchers at Cymulate security firm devised a new s...

Apple and Samsung fined millions for “planned obsolescence” of old smartphones

Apple and Samsung fined millions for “planned obsolescence” of old smartphones Italian Competition Authority AGCM fined Apple and Samsung a...

Iranian Charming Kitten ATP group poses as Israeli cybersecurity firm in phishing campaign

Iranian Charming Kitten ATP group poses as Israeli cybersecurity firm in phishing campaign Iranian APT groups continue to very active, rece...

A Samsung Texting App bug is sending random photos to contacts

A Samsung Texting App bug is sending random photos to contacts Some Samsung devices are randomly sending photos taken with the camera to co...

Facebook is notifying 800,000 users affected by a blocking bug

Facebook is notifying 800,000 users affected by a blocking bug Yesterday the social network giant Facebook started notifying 800,000 users ...

A few dollars to bring down sites with new Bushido-based DDoS-for-hire service

A few dollars to bring down sites with new Bushido-based DDoS-for-hire service Security researchers at FortiGuard Labs have discovered a ne...

British Airways: additional 185,000 passengers may have been affected

British Airways: additional 185,000 passengers may have been affected The data breach suffered by the British Airways airline is worse than...

CVE-2018-14665 privilege escalation flaw affects popular Linux distros

CVE-2018-14665 privilege escalation flaw affects popular Linux distros Security researcher discovered a highly critical vulnerability (CVE-...

The Social network giant Facebook confirms it shared data with 61 tech firms after 2015

The Social network giant Facebook confirms it shared data with 61 tech firms after 2015 On Friday, Facebook provided a 748-page long report...

Microsoft revealed that 2 Zero-Days found in March were part of a cyber weapon in an early development stage

Microsoft revealed that 2 Zero-Days found in March were part of a cyber weapon in an early development stage Microsoft published technical ...

NSA began deleting all call detail records (CDRs) acquired since 2015

NSA began deleting all call detail records (CDRs) acquired since 2015 NSA is deleting hundreds of millions of records of phone calls and te...

Experts presented BOTCHAIN, the first fully functional Botnet built upon the Bitcoin Protocol

Experts presented BOTCHAIN, the first fully functional Botnet built upon the Bitcoin Protocol Security experts Antonio Pirozzi and Pierluig...

Experts released a free Decryption Tool for GandCrab ransomware

Experts released a free Decryption Tool for GandCrab ransomware Good news for the victims of the infamous GandCrab ransomware, security exp...

UK ICO fines Facebook with maximum for Cambridge Analytica scandal

UK ICO fines Facebook with maximum for Cambridge Analytica scandal Facebook has been fined £500,000 by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s ...

Google requires 2 years of Android security updates for popular devices

Google requires 2 years of Android security updates for popular devices The media outlet The Verge obtained a copy of a contract between Go...

Experts discovered a severe command injection flaw in Cisco Webex Meetings Desktop

Experts discovered a severe command injection flaw in Cisco Webex Meetings Desktop Researchers discovered a “high” severity command injecti...

Cathay Pacific data breach affecting 9.4 million passengers

Cathay Pacific data breach affecting 9.4 million passengers Cathay Pacific Airways Limited, the flag carrier of Hong Kong, had suffered a m...