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Government and energy sectors are being targeted in a new campaign that weaponizes the coronavirus outbreak. On Thursday, Cisco Talos researchers Warren Mercer, Paul Rascagneres and Vitor Ventura published an analysis of a new campaign that deploys PoetRAT, a previously-undiscovered Remote Access Trojan (RAT) striking both the Azerbaijan government and utility companies. According to the […] More
Facebook has announced new measures to tackle the spread of COVID-19 misinformation by alerting users when they have interacted with fake or dangerous content. On Thursday, Facebook’s vice president of Integrity, Guy Rosen, said in a blog post that the social media giant is going to start notifying users when they have liked, reacted to, […] More
Security researchers from ReversingLabs say they’ve discovered 725 Ruby libraries uploaded on the official RubyGems repository that contained malware meant to hijack users’ clipboards. The malicious packages were uploaded on RubyGems between February 16 and 25 by two accounts — JimCarrey and PeterGibbons. The 725 libraries, which are listed here in full, have been removed […] More
Almost half of the listings on the most popular underground marketplaces are guides on how to commit fraud, as aspiring cyber criminals look to find out how to conduct business email compromise and other online scams. But there’s a twist – many of the how-to guides are useless fakes. Cybersecurity researchers at Terbium Labs examined […] More
[embedded content] Academics from an Israeli university have proven the feasibility of using fans installed inside a computer to create controlled vibrations that can be used to steal data from air-gapped systems. The technique, codenamed AiR-ViBeR, is the latest in a long list of wacky data exfiltration techniques devised by Mordechai Guri, the head of […] More
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has attempted to quash concerns over mass surveillance and intrusion of privacy in the nation’s soon-to-be launched COVID-19 contact tracing app. Morrison, speaking with media on Thursday, said that while there’s a team of “Sherlock Holmes’ out there” tracking cases, it needs to be lifted to an “industrial capability” by using […] More
Google is adapting its machine-learning models for Gmail security to battle scammers, cybercriminals, and state-sponsored hackers exploiting fear over the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in phishing email attacks. The company says it blocked 18 million COVID-19 themed phishing emails last week. The blocked COVID-19 phishing emails targeting Gmail users represents about 2.5% of the 100 million […] More
Image: Janbarkmann Router vendor Linksys has locked user accounts on its Smart WiFi cloud service and is asking users to reset passwords after hackers have been observed hijacking accounts and changing router settings to redirect users to malware sites. Linksys’ decision only impacts Smart WiFi accounts. Linksys Smart WiFi is a cloud-based account system that […] More
