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Image: Hack Capital Companies that run Pulse Secure VPN servers are still at risk of getting hacked, despite patching vulnerable systems, cyber-security agencies from the US and Japan have warned this month. Pulse Secure VPN servers are enterprise-grade VPN gateways that companies use to let workers connect to internal company networks from across the internet. […] More
Microsoft has rolled out a fix for a recent update that has been causing the Windows Defender built-in antivirus software to crash on Windows 10 PCs when running a full system scan. With around half a billion Windows 10 PCs using Windows Defender or Microsoft Defender, when things go wrong, lots of users feel the […] More
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
