All posts tagged "cyber security news"

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  PgMiner Botnet Attacks PostgreSQL Databases to Install a Cryptocurrency Miner

  Unit 42 researchers at Paloalto discovered a cryptocurrency mining botnet named “PGMiner”. It is a Linux based cryptocurrency botnet that exploits a...

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  Adrozek Malware Silently Hijacks Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Yandex, and Firefox Browsers

  Google Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and Yandex have become the most recent targets of an ongoing malware campaign, called Adrozek, as disclosed by Microsoft. The...

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  Facebook Takedown Infrastructure of Hacker Groups Targeting Various Government Entities

  Bangladesh and Vietnam based hackers were caught by Facebook recently for hacking into its users’ accounts and taking control of the pages....

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  Russian APT28 Hackers Uses COVID-19 Lures to Deliver Zebrocy Malware via VHD File

  The security firm Intezer revealed COVID-19 phishing lures that were used to deliver the Go version of Zebrocy. Zebrocy is mainly used against...

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  New malicious NPM packages Used by Attackers Install njRAT Remote Access Trojan

  No, not the one that nibbles at your Thanksgiving leftovers. RAT, Remote Access Trojan, is a type of malware that enables attackers...

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  Carding Action 2020 – Crooks selling/purchasing Compromised Card Data Arrested

  We, at GBhackers usually report instances where the bad guys have had the upper hand in cyber-security, but today we are glad...

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  Malware in Minecraft mods Games Attack More Than 1 Million Android Users

  Minecraft is a sandbox video game developed by Mojang. The first version of Minecraft was released earlier in 2009, but the game remains incredibly popular to...

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  WAPDropper – Android Malware Subscribing Victims To Premium Services By Telecom Companies

  Security analysts have found a new malware that infects mobile devices and subscribes the victims to premium subscription provided by telecom companies,...

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  Multiple Critical Flaws in Cisco Security Manager Let Attackers to Execute Remote Code

  Cisco, this week, published an advisory, CVE-2020-27130, stating that a vulnerability was identified and resolved in Cisco Security Manager that could allow...

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  New TroubleGrabber Malware Steals Credentials and System Information

  TroubleGrabber, the latest in a line of credential stealers, spreads via Discord attachments and uses Discord webhooks to hand over stolen data...

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  ModPipe Malware Steals Sensitive Information from Oracle POS Software used by Hundreds of Thousands of Hotels

  A new Point-of-Sale (PoS) named ModPipe malware is targeting devices utilized by many thousands of organizations within the hospitality sector, researchers have...

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  Critical Vulnerabilities Discovered in World’s Largest Android TVs Manufacturer

  Television is a mass medium for entertainment, advertising, news, and sports. In advent with the technology, inbuilt integration offered with apps like Netflix,...

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  Attackers Using Image Inversion Technique to Bypass Office 365 Filtering Mechanism

  A creative Office 365 phishing campaign was discovered by WMC Global Analysis researchers that a legitimate login page of a Microsoft Account,...

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  Infamous Maze Ransomware Operators Shuts Down Operations

  Maze ransomware, one of the most dangerous and potent strains of Windows ransomware that have hit companies and organizations around the world...

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  Oracle Issues Emergency Patch for Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic Server

  IT giant Oracle, on 1st November 2020, issued a Security Alert Advisory, CVE-2020-14750, regarding a remote code execution vulnerability on Oracle WebLogic...

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  Gold Seller JM Bullion Hacked – Attackers Steals Credit Card and Personal Details

  “JM Bullion” company is one of the largest and most premier online retailers of precious metals like gold, silver, copper, platinum, and...

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  Firestarter Malware Abuses Google Firebase Cloud Messaging Platform to Spread

  The ‘Firestarter’ malware is used by an APT threat group called “DoNot”. DoNot uses Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM), a cross-platform cloud solution for...

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  VOIP Service Provider Exposes 350M Customer Records

  A database of over 350 million customer records exposed from unsecured Elasticsearch cluster belonging to voice over-internet-protocol company Broadvoice. The database was...

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  Cryptocurrency Miners Back – Lemon Duck Attacking Government, Retail, and Technology Sectors

  The Cybersecurity research firm Cisco Talos has recently detected an activity that are linked with the cryptocurrency botnet. The experts claimed that...

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  Food Delivery Platform Hacked – More than 400K Customer Impacted

  Hackers compromised the Asian food delivery service Chowbus and stole customer information such as customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, and mailing...

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  Joker Malware Targets Android Users to steal SMS Messages and Contact Lists – 17 Apps Removed from Google Play

  Joker is one of the most prominent malware families that continuously target the Android devices, it’s main activity is to stimulate clicks...