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Tech Firms Unite to Neutralize WireX Android Botnet
August 29, 2017 By aatech

Black clouds on the internet do sometimes have a silver lining. Global attacks such as those from Mirai last year and WannaCry/NotPetya this year have fomented informal collaborative global responses — one of which happened this month when multiple competitive vendors collaborated in the research and neutralization of a major new botnet called WireX. The […]

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SAP POS Flaw Allows Hackers to Change Pricing
August 28, 2017 By aatech

A point of sale (POS) system from SAP is wide open—allowing anyone to go in and steal payment card data or, in a new cybercrime wrinkle, change prices on merchandise. According to ERPScan—which used the example of hacking in to change the price of a MacBook to $1—the SAP POS Xpress Server does not perform […]

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Spammers Get to Work: Tuesday is Prime Time
August 27, 2017 By aatech

All in a week’s work: According to new research from IBM X-Force, Tuesday is the biggest day for spam. It makes sense. Like any professional, spammers do their research and know Tuesday is a key day for email marketing—with 20% more opens than average, according to HubSpot. “Contrary to the stereotype, a cyber-criminal is not […]

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Adware Spreading Via Social Engineering, Facebook Messenger
August 26, 2017 By aatech

Attackers have taken to Facebook Messenger with a combination of social engineering and malicious JavaScript to spread adware, something that’s likely earning them a small chunk of change in the process. David Jacoby, a senior security researcher with Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research & Analysis Team, said he spotted an attack he believes is part of […]

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Android Spyware Linked to Chinese SDK Forces Google to Boot 500 Apps
August 25, 2017 By aatech

More than 500 Android mobile apps have been removed from Google Play after it was discovered that an embedded advertising SDK could be leveraged to quietly install spyware on devices. The SDK, called Igexin, was developed by a Chinese company and may have been used to install malware that could, among other things, exfiltrate logs […]

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DDoS Attacks on the Rise Again
August 24, 2017 By aatech

DDoS attacks rose again in Q2 for the first time in almost a year as the black hats returned to tried-and-tested tools and techniques including PBot, Mirai and Domain Generation Algorithms (DGA), according to Akamai. The cloud delivery provider crunched data collected from over 230,000 servers in more than 1600 networks to compile its State […]

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PlayStation Social Media Accounts Hacked
August 24, 2017 By aatech

A notorious hacking firm, probably best described as greyhats rather than white or blackhats, briefly breached the PlayStation Facebook and Twitter accounts on Sunday. OurMine, a Saudi-based security firm, specializes in breaching high-profile accounts in order to advertise its ‘prowess’ and sell its security services. Yesterday, it got into PlayStation’s Twitter and Facebook accounts, and […]

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Game Developers Warned of Remote Vulnerability in Unity
August 23, 2017 By aatech

The popular Unity game platform—used by professionals and hobbyists alike—is vulnerable to remote compromise because of a flaw in the Windows game editor, the company warned on Aug. 18. Unity advised developers who use the Windows version of its editor to update immediately. Users of the Mac version of the editor are not affected, but […]

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Attacks on the Cloud Increase by 300%
August 22, 2017 By aatech

The number of attacks on cloud-based accounts has increased by 300%, according to Microsoft’s Security and Intelligence report. It claimed that consumer and enterprise Microsoft accounts are a tempting target for attackers, and the frequency and sophistication of attacks on cloud-based accounts are accelerating. “The Identity Security and Protection team has seen a 300% increase […]

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How to Protect From Ransomware Attacks
August 21, 2017 By aatech

CyberSecurity News on Ransamware Ransomware has become one of the largest threats to both individuals and enterprises with the last few months happening several widespread ransomware outbreaks. Currently, there is no decryptor available to decrypt data locked by Mamba and Locky as well, so users are strongly advised to follow prevention measures in order to […]

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