Researchers with D3Lab have discovered the data of almost one million credit card holders being sold on an underground forum, according to a blog post released this week. In a sample of 980,930 files acquired by …
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Microsoft has revived the Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) app that was deprecated last year due to an important severity information disclosure bug the company decided not to fix. RDCMan is a Windows RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) …
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Threat actors are now actively scanning for the Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell remote code execution vulnerabilities after technical details were released at the Black Hat conference. Before we get to the active scanning of these vulnerabilities, it is …
Microsoft Exchange servers scanned for ProxyShell vulnerability, Patch Now Read More »
Natural language processing continues to find its way into unexpected corners. This time, it’s phishing emails. In a small study, researchers found that they could use the deep learning language model GPT-3, along with other …
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Facebook and Google are the web’s biggest advertising powerhouses. But Spotify has ambitions to rival them. And it has all the data it needs to do just that. Each day hundreds of millions of people …
All the Ways Spotify Tracks You—and How to Stop It Read More »
Today Apple announced a set of measures aimed at improving child safety in the USA. While well-intentioned, their plans risk opening the door to mass surveillance around the world while arguably doing little to improve …
Taiwanese motherboard maker has been hit by the RansomEXX ransomware gang, who threaten to publish 112GB of stolen data unless a ransom is paid Gigabyte is best known for its motherboards but also manufactures other …
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BLACK HAT USA: When a company becomes the victim of a cyberattack, executives are faced with a tsunami of challenges: containing a breach, remediation, informing customers and stakeholders, identifying those responsible, and conducting a forensic …
Black Hat: How cybersecurity incidents can become a legal minefield Read More »
In early 2019, a bug in group FaceTime calls would have let attackers activate the microphone, and even the camera, of the iPhone they were calling and eavesdrop before the recipient did anything at all. …
Apple is about to announce a new technology for scanning individual users’ iPhones for banned content. While it will be billed as a tool for detecting child abuse imagery, its potential for misuse is vast …
The BlackMatter gang has joined the ranks of ransomware operations to develop a Linux encryptor that targets VMware’s ESXi virtual machine platform. The enterprise is increasingly moving to virtual machines for their servers for better …
Linux version of BlackMatter ransomware targets VMware ESXi servers Read More »
Security researchers found a new class of DNS vulnerabilities impacting major DNS-as-a-Service (DNSaaS) providers that could allow attackers to access sensitive information from corporate networks. DNSaaS providers (also known as managed DNS providers) provide DNS …
New DNS vulnerability allows ‘nation-state level spying’ on companies Read More »