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This summer, I talked about how ZDNet journalists drew attention of Mozilla engineers to numerous abuses of the Firefox Send service, which was actively used to spread malware. As a result, Mozilla has stopped development of Firefox Send indefinitely, but the developers have promised to rework it and improve security. …

The US Department of Justice brought charges in absentia against two Russian citizens: Daniil Potekhin (aka cronuswar) and Dmitry Karasavidi. The US Department of Justice accused the Russians in organizing a large-scale phishing operation against users of three cryptocurrency exchanges: Poloniex, Binance and Gemini. The two suspects are accused of …

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS CISA) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Agency (DHS CISA) has published security guidelines for the private sector and government agencies. CISA said that Chinese hackers associated with the Ministry of State Security of the Republic of China are attacking organizations in the United States and …

Check Point has released its monthly Global Threat Index for August 2020. According to the researchers, the updated Qbot Trojan (aka QuakBot, Qakbot and Pinkslipbot) first entered the TOP of the most widespread malware in the world, where it took tenth place. Experts discovered Qbot back in 2008, and over …

Back in 2018, cyber security specialist and engineer Braydon Fuller discovered a dangerous bug in Bitcoin Core (versions 0.16.0 and 0.16.1). The problem appeared in 2017 and was named INVDoS. Shortly after the discovery, CVE-2018-17145 was quietly eliminated, and Fuller kept his find a secret for two years, fearing activity …

Intel engineers fixed this week a critical bug with updates to Active Management Technology (AMT) and Intel Standard Manageability (ISM). The AMT and ISM bug was one of the most serious issues the company has addressed this month. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2020-8758 and scored 9.8 out of 10 …

Intezer experts discovered the TeamTNT cybercriminal group, whose hackers use the legitimate Weave Scope tool in their attacks to visualize and monitor cloud infrastructure. According to the researchers, this is the first time that attackers have used a legitimate tool for such attacks. As mentioned above, Weave Scope is usually …

Israeli cybersecurity specialist Zohar Shachar talked about his discovery of XSS vulnerability in Google Maps in 2019, and then found out that Google was unable to fix it from the first time. The issue was related to the Google Maps feature that allows users to create their own maps. Such …

Specialists of the SWIFT organization, which operates same-named international system or the transfer of financial information, published a report on various money laundering techniques. As it turned out, money is rarely laundered using cryptocurrencies; criminals prefer shell companies, casinos, money mules and other “classic” methods. The report states that most …

Researchers at NVISO Labs noticed that the Epic Manchego group uses unusual Excel files for attacks, created specifically to bypass defense mechanisms. The fact is that these files are not created through Microsoft Office – the hackers use the .NET library EPPlus. Typically, this library is used by application developers, …

An information security specialist known under the pseudonym Affable Kraut discovered that Magecart web skimmer operators extract stolen cards data through Telegram channels. He concluded this based on information obtained by Sansec, which specializes in combating digital skimming and Magecart attacks. Let me remind you that initially the name MageCart …

One of the largest IT companies in Ukraine, SoftServe (number 2 in the latest DOU.UA rating), was attacked by a ransomware. A number of the company’s services stopped working, according to the AIN.UA publication. The cybercriminals launched a ransomware virus into the system. As a result, a number of SoftServe …

ESET specialists discovered the KryptoCibule malware, which has been active since 2018 and steals cryptocurrency from Windows users in the Czech Republic and Slovakia (these countries accounted for 85% of infections). KryptoCibule has three main functions and is capable of: installing cryptocurrency miners on victims’ systems (CPU and GPU miners …

Security expert Peter Dantini discovered that the Shlayer malware bypassed Apple’s checks: it successfully passed the software notarization process and could run on any Mac running macOS Catalina and newer. In February of this year, Apple introduced a new security mechanism: any Mac software distributed outside the App Store must …

Scientists from the Swiss Higher Technical School of Zurich have developed an attack that allows not to enter a PIN code when making contactless payments with Visa Credit, Visa Electron and VPay cards. This attack allows an attacker who owns the details of a stolen contactless Visa card to use …