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01/09/2020

Romance Scams Are on the Rise, FBI Warns

https://hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com/blog/romance-scams-are-on-the-rise-fbi-warns-24027.html

The FBI is warning individuals who use online dating apps and platforms to watch out for scammers leveraging social distancing measures and defrauding unsuspecting victims of their hard-earned money. Romance or confidence scams drew nearly 20,000 complaints back in 2019...

01/09/2020

Apple Accidentally Approved Malware to Run on MacOS

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-approved-malware-macos-notarization-shlayer/

The ubiquitous Shlayer adware has picked up a new trick, slipping past Cupertino's “notarization” defenses for the first time.

23/08/2020

A New Botnet Is Covertly Targeting Millions of Servers

http://go.newsfusion.com/security/item/1708239

Botnet is hard to detect and with no centralized control server, harder to take down.

23/08/2020

VMware App Volumes patches address Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

http://go.newsfusion.com/security/item/1708158

VMware App Volumes patches address Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability - https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0019.html, Author: Guy Bruneau

23/08/2020

Inside NSO, Israel's billon-dollar spyware giant

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/19/1006458/nso-spyware-controversy-pegasus-human-rights?&web_view=true

Maâti Monjib speaks slowly, like a man who knows he’s being listened to. It’s the day of his 58th birthday when we speak, but there’s little celebration in his voice. “The surveillance is hellish,” Monjib tells me. “It is really difficult. It controls everything I do in my life.” A hi...

19/08/2020

Computer scientists create benchmarks to advance quantum computer performance

http://go.newsfusion.com/security/item/1705763

A story about Cyber Security from Help Net Security, as featured in Newsfusion's Cyber Security app.

19/08/2020

Ukraine arrests gang who ran 20 crypto-exchanges and laundered money for ransomware gangs

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ukraine-arrests-gang-who-ran-20-crypto-exchanges-and-laundered-money-for-ransomware-gangs/

Gang is believed to have laundered more than $42 million in criminal proceeds.

19/08/2020

Gym app management platform exposed info of thousands of users

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/gym-app-management-platform-exposed-info-of-thousands-of-users/

Hackers could hijack user accounts in dozens of fitness and gym mobile applications, even where the two-factor authentication (2FA) mechanism was active.

19/08/2020

New bot detection feature helps fight credential stuffing

http://go.newsfusion.com/security/item/1705216

A story about Cyber Security from BetaNews, as featured in Newsfusion's Cyber Security app.

19/08/2020

Large-scale migrations away from on premise environments are underway

http://go.newsfusion.com/security/item/1705767

A story about Cyber Security from Help Net Security, as featured in Newsfusion's Cyber Security app.

18/08/2020

Critical Jenkins Server Vulnerability Could Leak Sensitive Information

https://thehackernews.com/2020/08/jenkins-server-vulnerability.html

Critical Jenkins Web Server Vulnerability (CVE-2019-17638) Could Leak Sensitive Information

18/08/2020

Huawei ban expanded to include foreign-made chips using US tech

https://www.zdnet.com/article/huawei-ban-expanded-to-include-foreign-made-chips-using-us-tech/?&web_view=true

US government says its move to restrict the Chinese tech giant from accessing chips made by foreign manufacturers using US technology aims to "impede" Huawei's attempts to circumvent earlier controls by going through third parties.

18/08/2020

AI Company Leaks 2.5 Million Sensitive Records Due to an unsecured...

https://securethoughts.com/medical-data-of-auto-accident-victims-exposed-online/?&web_view=true

Secure Thoughts collaborated with Cyber Security Expert Jeremiah Fowler to expose an AI company which leaked millions of patient medical records online

18/08/2020

Email enigma: Why is canada hit with so many phishing attacks?

https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/252487744/Email-enigma-Why-is-Canada-hit-with-so-many-phishing-attacks?&web_view=true

Why are so many phishing attacks directed at Canada? Reports from RSA Security, PhishLabs and Check Point reveal different theories as to the high target rate, which may be attributed to massive phishing campaigns against Canadian banks or threat actors operating out of Canada.

18/08/2020

Public reported data breaches down 52% exposed records way up!

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2020/08/18/publicly-reported-data-breaches-down-52-exposed-records-way-up/?&web_view=true

The number of records exposed is more than four times higher than any previously reported time period, a Risk Based Security report reveals.

18/08/2020

Election insecurity: why just a handful of countries had the U.S...

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/gov-t-election-security-struggles-reach-some-counties-n1236973?&web_view=true

Experts are focused on newer types of attacks such as ransomware — and the possible domino effect that a few attacks could have on the nation's faith in the election.

18/08/2020

Multiple unistallers released china linked goldenspy malware

https://www.securityweek.com/multiple-uninstallers-released-china-linked-goldenspy-malware?&web_view=true

Trustwave’s security researchers have identified a total of five uninstallers meant to remove the GoldenSpy backdoor from infected computers

18/08/2020

World's largest cruise line operator discloses ransomware attack

https://www.zdnet.com/article/worlds-largest-cruise-line-operator-discloses-ransomware-attack/?&web_view=true

Carnival Corp says it suffered a ransomware attack on Saturday, August 15, and that hackers stole some of its data.