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minute read Share this article: Surveillance footage from companies such as Tesla as well as hospitals, prisons, police departments and schools was accessed in the hack. Hackers claim to have breached Silicon Valley startup Verkada to gain unauthorized access to live feeds of 150,000 security cameras. They claim, the hack gave them widespread access to surveillance footage within companies such as Tesla and Cloudflare, as well as hospitals, companies, law-enforcement departments, s...

minute read Share this article: Spear-phishing emails are spreading the NimzaLoader malware loader, which some say may be used to download Cobalt Strike. The TA800 threat group is distributing a malware loader, which researchers call NimzaLoader, via ongoing, highly-targeted spear-phishing emails. While previous Twitter analysis identified this loader as a mere variant of TA800’s existing BazaLoader malware, new research cites evidence that NimzaLoader is a disparate strain — ...

minute read Share this article: The security hole in the Plus Addons for Elementor plugin was used in active zero-day attacks prior to a patch being issued. The Plus Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress has a critical security vulnerability that attackers can exploit to quickly, easily and remotely take over a website. First reported as a zero-day bug, researchers said it’s being actively attacked in the wild. The plugin, which has more than 30,000 active installations accor...

A hybrid Monero cryptominer and ransomware bug has hit 20,000 machines in 60 days. At its previous peak in February, the Monero Miner cryptocurrency ransominer was targeting more than 2,500 users a day, disguised as an antivirus installer. Now, the tricky hybrid malware is on the rise again, this time impersonating an ad blocker and OpenDNS service. In total, it has infected more than 20,000 users in less than two months, researchers at Kaspersky warned, in a report on Wednesday. Ransomining le...

minute read Share this article: A never-before-seen malware-dropper, Clast82, fetches the AlienBot and MRAT malware in a savvy Google Play campaign aimed at Android users. A malware dropper that paves the way for attackers to remotely steal data from Android phones has been spreading via nine malicious apps on the official Google Play store, according to researchers. The malware is part of a campaign aimed at lifting victims’ financial information, but which also allows eventual ...

Apple pushed out security updates for a memory-corruption bug to devices running on iOS, macOS, watchOS and for Safari.

A phishing attack targeting Microsoft users leverages a bogus Google reCAPTCHA system. Microsoft users are being targeted with thousands of phishing emails, in an ongoing attack aiming to steal their Office 365 credentials. The attackers add an air of legitimacy to the campaign by leveraging a fake Google reCAPTCHA system and top-level domain landing pages that include the logos of victims’ companies. According to researchers, at least 2,500 such emails have been unsuccessfully sent to senior...

minute read Share this article: A new variant of the Gafgyt botnet – that’s actively targeting vulnerable D-Link and Internet of Things devices – is the first variant of the malware to rely on Tor communications, researchers say. Researchers have discovered what they say is the first variant of the Gafgyt botnet family to cloak its activity using the Tor network. Gafgyt, a botnet that was uncovered in 2014, has become infamous for launching large-scale distributed denial-of-...

The cyberattack on SITA, a nearly ubiquitous airline service provider, has compromised frequent-flyer data across many carriers. A communications and IT vendor for 90 percent of the world’s airlines, SITA, has been breached, compromising passenger data stored on the company’s U.S. servers in what the company is calling a “highly sophisticated attack.” The affected servers are in Atlanta, and belong to the SITA Passenger Service System (SITA PSS), company spokeswoman Edna Ayme-Yahil told...

EFF worries that the Google’s ‘privacy-first” vision for the future may pose new privacy risks. This month Google begins a public test of a technology it says will eventually replace browser cookies in an effort to boost Chrome browser user privacy. However, critics say the switch is a half-measure and does not protect the web movements of Chrome users adequately. The Google solution–called Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC)—is promoted as a way to put people’s privacy first by l...