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Android-based banking Trojan Nexus now available as malware-as-a-service
PRIVACY PRIVACY Italian cybersecurity firm Cleafy has found “Nexus”, a new Android Trojan capable of hijacking online accounts and siphoning funds from them, to be targeting customers from 450 banks and cryptocurrency services worldwide. First observed in June 2022 as a variant of SOVA, another Android banking Trojan, Nexus has since improved targeting capabilities and…
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Exploding USB Sticks
PRIVACY PRIVACY In case you don’t have enough to worry about, people are hiding explosives—actual ones—in USB sticks: In the port city of Guayaquil, journalist Lenin Artieda of the Ecuavisa private TV station received an envelope containing a pen drive which exploded when he inserted it into a computer, his employer said. Artieda sustained slight…
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UK parliament follows government by banning TikTok over cybersecurity concerns
PRIVACY PRIVACY The commissions of the House of Commons and House of Lords have followed the UK government by banning social media app TikTok over cybersecurity concerns. A parliament spokesman said that TikTok “will be blocked from all parliamentary devices and the wider parliamentary network,” a move that TikTok has described as “misguided” and “based…
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IRS Phishing Emails Used to Distribute Emotet
PRIVACY PRIVACY Monster 500MB attachment hides a nasty surprise Read More
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Now UK Parliament Bans TikTok from its Network and Devices
PRIVACY PRIVACY Further blow for Chinese social media app Read More
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Fifth of Execs Admit Security Flaws Cost Them New Biz
PRIVACY PRIVACY Business leaders still underestimate importance of security to growth Read More
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Russian hacktivists deploy new AresLoader malware via decoy installers
PRIVACY PRIVACY Security researchers have started seeing attack campaigns that use a relatively new malware-as-a-service (MaaS) tool called AresLoader. The malicious program appears to be developed and used by several members of a pro-Russia hacktivist group and is typically distributed inside decoy installers for legitimate software. Security researchers from threat intelligence firm Intel 471 first…
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Danger USB! Journalists sent exploding flash drives
PRIVACY PRIVACY If you were sent a USB stick anonymously through the post, would you plug it into your computer? Perhaps you’ll think twice when you hear what happened to these Ecuadorian journalists. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Read More
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China-Aligned “Operation Tainted Love” Targets Middle East Telecom Providers
PRIVACY PRIVACY The deployment of custom credential theft malware is the main novelty of the new campaign Read More
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SharePoint Phishing Scam Targets 1600 Across US, Europe
PRIVACY PRIVACY Cyber-criminals used the scam to steal the credentials for various email accounts Read More