Month: January 2021

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Going Rogue – A Different Level Of Malware Development Package

Smartphones, especially Android have remained an appealing subject for threat actors and cybercriminals for a very long period of time. There are more than 3.5 billion active users of smartphones, out of which 3 billion smartphones are Android-based. This massive worldwide use of smartphones is what makes cybercriminals target them for malicious activities. However, the…
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A Country’s Top Level Expired Domain Saved From Hackers By A Cybersecurity Researcher

In October 2020, a significant domain name of a country’s internet space started to expire, however, it was an infamous, mostly a secret, domain. Maybe, some responsible person must have forgotten to pay the price for continuing the use of the domain name. However, the domains that are expired do not vanish away at a…
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100,000 Private Records Of The U.N. Accessed In A Data Breach By Ethical Hackers

Cyber Security researchers have successfully and effectively hacked the United Nations, reaching out to client credentials and personally identifiable information (PII) including in excess of 100,000 private representative and task records prior to telling the U.N. about the issue through the association’s vulnerability divulgence program. Ethical hackers from the exploration bunch Sakura Samurai utilized a…
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Your Phone Could Be Eavesdropping On You

Smartphones are a great device that offers a variety of services that make our lives easier and faster. Since smartphones are used in multiple scenarios by everyone every single minute for utilizing sensors, stores huge amounts of data, and people using it in intimate scenarios and locations, they also raise concerns about being remote devices…
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Joe Biden Proposes $9bn Funding For US Agencies of Cyber Security

To enhance the work of cybersecurity agencies and their capabilities, to support the Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA), and bring up a vital upgrade to federal government security, Joe Biden (President-elect) has put-forward a funding plan of $9bn (i.e. 6.6bn Euros). This complete funding operation is a part of the American Rescue Plan that…
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A Severe Bug Present In WordPress Plugin Called Orbit Fox Serves Site Takeover

Two security vulnerabilities present in Orbit Fox (one of them is a privilege-escalation error and the other one is a stored XSS bug), which is a WordPress plugin, can enable bad actors to infuse a malicious code in any vulnerable website and also allow to take control of the site. WordPress plugin, Orbit Fox, is…
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Facebook Profile Data Scraped By Developers Of Malicious Chrome Extensions

Legal action has been filed by Facebook against two developers of Chrome extensions that the organization claimed was scraping client profile information that included profile IDs, names, and other browser-related data. The two anonymous developers working under the Oink and Stuff organization, created Chrome vindictive browser extensions, which contained concealed code that worked like spyware,…
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Undocumented Chinese Malware Used In Recent Attacks Has Been Discovered By Cybersecurity Researchers

A progression of cyberattacks by a bad actor of Chinese root focused on associations in Russia and Hong Kong with malware that included a formerly undocumented backdoor was unveiled by Cybersecurity researchers. Linking the mission to Winnti (also known as APT41), Positive Technologies dated the primary assault to 12 May 2020, when the APT utilized…
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Joker’s Stash Being The Dark Web’s Largest Carding Marketplace Will Shut Down Soon

Joker’s Stash is the dark web’s largest marketplace in the underground payment economy (known for selling stolen payment card details) will shut down all its operations and services on 15 Feb 2021. Cybersecurity firms, Intel471 and Gemini Advisory indicated that, on a cybercrime forum, the administrator of the site, known as “JokerStash”, informed their customers…
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Ubiquiti Suggests To Change Password And Enable 2FA After Suffering Data Breach

Ubiquiti is an American vendor of networking technology devices that offers security cameras, routers, network video recorders, and access control systems. Ubiquiti is requesting their customers eagerly to change passwords to their accounts and activate two-factor authentication, after discovering unauthorized access to their IT (information technology) systems that are hosted by a third-party cloud provider.…
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