Europol together with Dutch and Luxembourg authorities seized Bestmixer.io on Wednesday because they believe the "world's leading cryptocurrency mixing service" has laundered over $200 million in …
Volume of Signed Malware Increases, CAs Need Better Vetting
New figures from Chronicle show that threat actors increasingly manage to abuse digital certificates in order to sign malware. As a result, operating systems can no longer reliably use such …
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Data privacy: A hot-button issue for Americans one year after GDPR
This Sunday will mark one year since the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect. A new nCipher survey shows that awareness of privacy issues has increased in the US. A small …
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Two More Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Released for Windows
Just one day after notorious Windows exploit developer "SandboxEscaper" released a Windows zero-day exploit, she posted two additional zero-days on her GitHub account. One is a sandbox escape …
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Baltimore Email, Other Systems Still Offline from May 7 Ransomware Attack
More than two weeks after the City of Baltimore, Maryland suffered a ransomware attack, the city's email system and various other systems have still not been restored. The City was targeted by a …
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Over 90% of data transactions on IoT devices are unencrypted
New research by Zscaler highlights how companies are putting themselves at risk through the use of poorly secured IoT devices. The report found that a staggering 91.5% of IoT data transactions on …
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Facebook found hosting masses of far right EU disinformation networks
Campaign group Avaaz has uncovered a vast far disinformation campaign spreading fake news stories on Facebook in order to promote far right political positions to European voters ahead of the European …
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Trump Administration Could Blacklist China’s Hikvision, a Surveillance Firm
The US government may blacklist Chinese video surveillance giant Hikvision in order to prevent it from purchasing US technology. The Trump administration is expected to decide on this issue in the …
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Massive DDoS attacks lasting more than an hour increased 487% in 2019
New Kaspersky Lab research shows that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks surged by 84% in the first three months of this year. This growth reverses the downward trend that was recorded …
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It’s not just WhatsApp, most messaging apps likely have security vulnerabilities
Cybersecurity experts warn that the recent Whatsapp vulnerability that allowed cyberattacker to remotely install malicious software on mobile phones, is unlikely to be the only flaw of that kind …