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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 19:43:02 +0000
The owner of a Swedish company behind a popular remote administration tool (RAT) implicated in thousands of malware attacks shares the same name as a Swedish man who pleaded guilty in 2015 to co-creating the Blackshades RAT, a similar product that was used to infect more than half a million computers with malware, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 21:58:08 +0000
Marcus Hutchins, a 24-year-old blogger and malware researcher arrested in 2017 for allegedly authoring and selling malware designed to steal online banking credentials, has pleaded guilty to criminal charges of conspiracy and to making, selling or advertising illegal wiretapping devices.
Read MoreCredit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 17:42:46 +0000
The criminals responsible for launching phishing campaigns that netted dozens of employees and more than 100 computer systems last month at Wipro, India’s third-largest IT outsourcing firm, also appear to have targeted a number of other competing providers, including Infosys and Cognizant — two other large technology consulting companies, new evidence suggests.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 17:56:58 +0000
I’m not a huge fan of stories about stories, or those that explore the ins and outs of reporting a breach. But occasionally it seems necessary to publish such accounts when companies respond to a breach report in such a way that it’s crystal clear that they wouldn’t know what to do with a breach if it bit them in the nose, let alone festered unmolested in some dark corner of their operations.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 21:19:55 +0000
Indian information technology (IT) outsourcing and consulting giant Wipro [NYSE:WIT] is investigating reports from multiple security experts that Wipro’s systems have been hacked and are being used to launch attacks against the company’s customers, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. The company has refused to respond to questions about the alleged incident.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 18:40:33 +0000
Scammers who make a living swindling Airbnb.com customers have a powerful new tool at their disposal: A software-as-a-service offering called “Land Lordz,” which helps automate the creation and management of fake Airbnb Web sites and the sending of messages to advertise the fraudulent listings.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 16:14:53 +0000
Google this week made it easier for Android users to enable strong 2-factor authentication (2FA) when logging into Google’s various services. The company announced that all phones running Android 7.0 and higher can now be used as Security Keys, an additional authentication layer that helps thwart phishing sites and password theft.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:07:33 +0000
Microsoft today released fifteen software updates to fix more than 70 unique security vulnerabilities in various flavors of its Windows operating systems and supported software, including at least two zero-day bugs. These patches apply to Windows, Internet Explorer (IE) and Edge browsers, Office, Sharepoint and Exchange. Separately, Adobe has issued security updates for Acrobat/Reader and Flash Player.
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