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Winnti Malware: Chinese hacker group attacks major German corporations for years, German public media investigation reveals

German public broadcasters, Bavarian Radio & Television Network (BR) and Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), have published a joint investigation report on…

1 year ago

A universal bypass tricks Cylance AI antivirus into accepting all top 10 Malware revealing a new attack surface for machine learning based security

Researchers from Skylight Cyber, an Australian cybersecurity enterprise, have tricked Blackberry Cylance’s AI-based antivirus product. They identified a peculiar bias…

1 year ago

25 million Android devices infected with ‘Agent Smith’, a new mobile malware

Two days ago, Check Point researchers reported a new mobile malware attack called ‘Agent Smith’ which infected around 25 million…

1 year ago

An IoT worm Silex, developed by a 14 year old resulted in malware attack and taking down 2000 devices

This week, an IoT worm called Silex that targets a Unix-like system took down around 2,000 devices, ZDNet reports. This…

1 year ago

Google Calendar was down for nearly three hours after a major outage

Yesterday, Google Calendar was down for nearly three hours around the world. Calendar users that were trying to access the…

2 years ago

Cisco reports critical vulnerabilities in Nexus 9000 data center switches, PI software, and EPN manager

Earlier this month, Cisco announced a critical vulnerability in its Nexus 9000 Series Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Mode Switch Software.…

2 years ago

Google to provide a free replacement key for its compromised Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Titan Security Keys

Today, Google announced a security bug in its Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Titan Security Keys. This issue is due to…

2 years ago

Microsoft releases security updates: a “wormable” threat similar to WannaCry ransomware discovered

Microsoft has taken steps to release security updates for unsupported but still widely-used Windows operating systems like XP and Windows…

2 years ago

.NET Core releases May 2019 updates

This month, during the Microsoft Build 2019, the team behind .NET Core announced that .NET Core 5 will be coming…

2 years ago

Facebook confessed another data breach; says it “unintentionally uploaded” 1.5 million email contacts without consent

This week, NATIONAL VULNERABILITY DATABASE (NVD) identified an integer overflow flaw in libssh2 before the release of version 1.8.1 which…

2 years ago