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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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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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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New Zero-Day Exploit for Bug in Windows 10 Task Scheduler
A notorious Windows exploit developer known by the moniker SandboxEscaper has released a new exploit that allows users with limited privileges to obtain complete control over files that can otherwise …
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Ransomware Not Gone but More Targeted, Report Says
A new Fortinet report underscores the current trend toward sophisticated, targeted cyberattacks involving custom code and living-off-the-land (LotL) techniques that enable attackers to take advantage …
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Google research: Most hacker-for-hire services are frauds
A new report by Google and the University of California, San Diego shows that individuals looking to hire hackers that will compromise specific user accounts for them, may end up getting scammed …
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How to block hijacking attacks on your Google account
Securing your Google account against the vast majority of account hijacking attempts is as simple as adding a recovery phone number, new research by Google, New York University, and the University of …
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After breach, Stack Overflow says some user data exposed
Stack Overflow has admitted that "a very small number” of users had their data compromised when the company suffered a cyberattack earlier this month. The firm behind the world’s largest question …
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