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Ionut Arghire
Ionut Arghire is an international correspondent for SecurityWeek.
Recent articles by Ionut Arghire
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A financially motivated threat actor believed to speak Russian has used remote access Trojans (RATs) in attacks on financial entities in the United States and worldwide.
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Cisco releases patches for 30 vulnerabilities, including a critical bug impacting ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers running IOS XR 64-bit software.
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Iran-linked cyber-espionage group OilRig is making broad use of DNS tunneling across its tools portfolio, Palo Alto Networks security researchers reveal.
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The European Commission has no evidence of issues associated with using Kaspersky Lab’s products, a document published this week reveals.
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Oracle’s Critical Patch Update (CPU) for April 2019 fixes nearly 300 vulnerabilities, including many that can be exploited remotely without authentication.
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The Scranos rootkit-enabled spyware operation has expanded reach outside of China to hit targets worldwide.
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A new variant of the HawkEye keylogger/information stealer is being leveraged in ongoing malware distribution campaigns.
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FireEye releases an open source tool designed to automate the analysis of Adobe Flash files to identify malware and prevent infections.
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Hackers breached Microsoft email services (Outlook.com, Hotmail, MSN) and accessed user accounts after compromising a support agent’s credentials.
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A security configuration framework for Windows 10 unveiled by Microsoft this week defines five different levels of discrete prescriptive security configurations.
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Facebook and Google have wrapped up the first edition of their BountyCon Asia-Pacific bug hunting conference, which resulted in $120,000 awarded in bounties.
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Two Romanians have been convicted in the United States for their role in a longstanding online fraud operation that incurred millions of dollars in losses.
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Google this week announced a series of tools meant to increase the overall security of Google Cloud and improve customer trust in the service.
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Kaspersky publishes new report on the activities of the Hamas-linked Gaza Cybergang and claims much of its infrastructure has been disrupted.
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The DHS and FBI have attributed a new Trojan they track as HOPLIGHT to a notorious threat group believed to be backed by the North Korean government.
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Hardcoded admin credentials found in the MyCar Controls mobile applications could have been exploited to locate and gain physical access to a vehicle.
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Researchers discover a sophisticated APT, named TajMahal, that can steal data from CDs, thumb drives and even printer queues.
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An underground invitation-based marketplace for stolen digital fingerprints, named Genesis, offers more than 60,000 stolen bot profiles.
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SAP this week released 6 Security Notes as part of its April 2019 Security Patch Day, including two that address High severity flaws in Crystal Reports and NetWeaver.
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A recently discovered variant of the Mirai malware is targeting a wider range of IoT devices than before.
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The Flame platform was believed dead following public exposure in 2012, but recently discovered evidence suggests that it remained alive, albeit very well hidden, security researchers at Alphabet-owned Chronicle reveal.
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The discovery of Duqu 1.5 shows that the threat actor behind the malware did not go dark, as previously believed, after their operations were exposed in 2011.
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The National Security Agency (NSA) has made the source code for its reverse engineering tool available to the public.
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A DNS hijacking campaign has been targeting the users of popular online services, including Gmail, PayPal, and Netflix.
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NVIDIA patches multiple vulnerabilities in the Tegra Linux Driver Package (L4T), including several flaws assessed with a high severity rating.
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