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June 18, 2018 The Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group “APT15” has been found to have added a new malware to its arsenal, according to Intezer researchers. The malware, a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) dubbed “MirageFox,” incorporates code from the “Mira…
Continue ReadingFormer CIA employee Joshua A. Schulte has been charged with sharing classified materials with WikiLeaks. In March 2017, one of the biggest leaks in the history of the CIA came to light when WikiLeaks began releasing thousands of agency secret documents…
Continue Reading“Schulte also intentionally caused damage without authorization to a CIA computer system by granting himself unauthorized access to the system, deleting records of his activities, and denying others access to the system,” the Justice Department says. “…
Continue ReadingSmart technologies such as AI, chatbots and augmented analytics generate overwhelming amounts of data. Here are some important integration trends that will give your enterprise an edge.
The next version of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 12, auto…
Continue ReadingSecurity researchers have discovered seven vulnerabilities in nearly 400 models of IP camera from a well-known manufacturer, some of which could be exploited to remotely control the devices. The team at security vendor VDOO made the discovery as part o…
Continue ReadingSecurity researcher Marcus Brinkmann has turned up another vulnerability in the GnuPG cryptographic library, this time specific to the Simple Password Store. Brinkmann explained that CVE-2018-12356 offers both access to passwords and possible remote co…
Continue ReadingA group of computer science researchers has proposed a way to overcome the security risk posed by speculative execution, the data processing technique behind the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. In a paper distributed this week through the ArXiv p…
Continue ReadingA security researcher has discovered a critical vulnerability in some of the world’s most popular and widely used email encryption clients that use OpenPGP standard and rely on GnuPG for encrypting and digitally signing messages. The disclosure comes a…
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Approximately 400 Axis Communications security cameras are affected by several vulnerabilities, including critical failures that can be chained to take full control of a device and access its stream. As part of this research about the internet of th…
Continue ReadingSince our last report on exploit kits, there have been some new developments with the wider adoption of the February Flash zero-day, as well as the inclusion of a new exploit for Internet Explorer. We have not seen that many changes in the drive-by lan…
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