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Ionut Arghire is an international correspondent for SecurityWeek.
Recent articles by Ionut Arghire
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USPS affiliate Click2Mail.com has started sending out notices to some of its users about a data breach that impacted their personal information.
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Mozilla announced a reduced attack surface for code injection in Firefox through the removal of potentially dangerous artifacts such as occurrences of inline scripts and eval()-like functions.
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Anthony Tyler Nashatka, aka psycho, appeared in a US federal court on charges related to his involvement in a scheme aimed at defrauding victims of at least $1.4 million in cryptocurrency.
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A recently uncovered highly targeted cyber-espionage platform that uses Tor for network communication has been targeting Russia and Eastern Europe.
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Google patches 8 vulnerabilities in Chrome 77, including 5 flaws that have earned researchers $45,000.
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Microsoft announced a joint effort aimed at helping enterprises improve their patching strategies.
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Magecart hackers have been gathering sensitive information from thousands of online shops after compromising top ecommerce platform and service provider Volusion.
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The BitPaymer ransomware operators were observed abusing a zero-day vulnerability in Apple’s iTunes for Windows to run code and evade detection.
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A citizen of Singapore has been charged in the United States for a large-scale cryptocurrency mining operation performed using stolen identity and credit card information.
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Starting with its next stable release, Tor (The Onion Router) browser will reject End-Of-Life relays by default, the Tor Project has announced.
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SAP this week released seven new Security Notes as part of the October 2019 Security Patch Day, with two of these notes rated Hot News.
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The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as Charming Kitten employed new spear-phishing methods in a recent campaign.
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A group of cybersecurity companies launch the Open Cybersecurity Alliance (OCA), a joint effort focused on the development of open source security technologies.
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Apple’s macOS Catalina 10.15 desktop operating system patches 16 vulnerabilities.
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A critical remote code execution vulnerability in several D-Link routers that reached their end of life remains unpatched.
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The United States and the United Kingdom have signed an agreement meant to provide law enforcement agencies with faster access to data related to serious crimes.
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Google’s October 2019 security patches for Android address a total of 26 vulnerabilities, including a couple of remote code execution bugs impacting Android 10.
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Versions through 9.0.4 of the Ghidra software reverse engineering (SRE) framework are impacted by a code-execution vulnerability.
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Security researchers were able to link one of the hacking groups operating under the Magecart umbrella to the infamous threat actor known as the Cobalt Group.
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Microsoft releases new security patches for an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability that was initially addressed on September 23, due to some printing issues, but the new updates are also buggy.
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Hackers continue to target the Drupal vulnerability named Drupalgeddon2 to install malware onto unpatched systems.
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Fully patched Pixel 2 devices, even those running Android 10 preview, are impacted by a vulnerability that has already been abused in attacks, a Google researcher has discovered.
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Attackers using the Adwind remote access Trojan (RAT) are targeting petroleum firms in the United States in a recent campaign.
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A former Yahoo software engineer has admitted in court to hacking into the accounts of thousands of the platform’s users.
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Singapore’s Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) is inviting 400 white-hat hackers to find vulnerabilities in its systems, as part of a three-week bug bounty program.
SecurityWeek Daily Briefing
- Click2Mail Informs Users of Data Breach
- Mozilla Hardens Firefox Against Injection Attacks
- California Attorney General Outlines How State Will Enforce Upcoming Privacy Law
- Critical Flaw in Sophos Cyberoam Appliances Allows Remote Code Execution
- Why All Security Disciplines Should Use the Intelligence Cycle
- Alleged Hacker Arraigned on $1.4 Million Cryptocurrency Fraud Charges
- Majority of Simjacker Attacks Aimed at Mobile Phones in Mexico
- Thoma Bravo to Acquire Sophos for $3.9 Billion
- Compromised AWS API Key Allowed Access to Imperva Customer Data
- Amazon Calls for Government Regulation of Facial Recognition Tech
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