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Ionut Arghire
Ionut Arghire is an international correspondent for SecurityWeek.
Recent articles by Ionut Arghire
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VideoLAN has addressed a critical double-free vulnerability in the VLC media player that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on target systems.
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A vulnerability recently addressed in Outlook for Android allows an attacker to steal information from the affected device.
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Real-time application behavior analytics, control, and protection provider TrueFort has raised $13.7 million in a Series A funding round.
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A recently discovered malicious campaign is aiming at infecting victim machines by delivering the notorious FlawedAmmyy RAT directly in memory, Microsoft warns.
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A newly discovered crypto-currency mining botnet can spread via open ADB (Android Debug Bridge) ports and Secure Shell (SSH), Trend Micro reports.
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New crypto-currency mining malware is targeting systems running macOS, and works by emulating Linux, Malwarebytes security researchers have discovered.
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an alert on a phishing campaign using attachments that impersonate the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
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Cloud data protection and management provider Druva announced $130 million in new funding, which brings the total raised by the company to date to $328 million.
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Google has rolled out a new type of multi-party computation (MPC) to help organizations better collaborate with confidential data sets.
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An attack by a Russian hacking group used the infrastructure belonging to the Iran-linked espionage group known as OilRig, indicating a possible hostile takeover of their servers.
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A recently uncovered cyberespionage campaign is targeting the users of Android devices in Middle Eastern countries.
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Google is making web browsing with Chrome safer with a new option for reporting suspicious websites and a new warning mechanism for sites that use deceptive URLs.
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Professional services company Accenture this week announced the acquisition of Deja vu Security.
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Internet security firm Cloudflare has joined the “League of Entropy,” a worldwide effort of individuals and academic institutions to bring users a quorum of decentralized randomness beacons.
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A new variant of the well-known Houdini Worm has been spotted in phishing attacks.
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A recently discovered backdoor can spread itself over a local network, in addition to allowing attackers to install additional malware onto compromised machines.
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Facebook’s first-ever global Capture the Flag (CTF) competition took place earlier this month and the company has now made the challenges available in open source.
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A threat actor that appears to be based in Iran is targeting a vulnerability in a popular DNA sequencing LIMS software, a security researcher had discovered.
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A variant of the Mirai Internet of Things (IoT) malware called Echobot uses a total of 26 different exploits for the infection phase, Akamai reports.
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A free decryption tool is now available for the victims of the latest variants of the GandCrab ransomware.
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Cybercriminals are already targeting a recently disclosed vulnerability in the open-source Exim mail server, Cybereason reports.
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The French Ministry of Interior has released a free decryption tool for the PyLocky ransomware to help victims recover their data.
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Security updates released by Mozilla for the Thunderbird email client address vulnerabilities that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on impacted systems.
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Google has introduced a new API that effectively changes the manner in which ad blockers work in Chrome.
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A newly discovered piece of malware uses a peer-to-peer (p2p) network on top of InterPlanetary File System’s (IPFS) p2p network, Anomali’s security researchers report.
SecurityWeek Daily Briefing
- Flaws in Phoenix Contact Automationworx Allow Code Execution via Malicious Files
- VideoLAN Patches Critical Vulnerability in VLC Media Player
- Flaw in Outlook for Android Allows for Data Theft
- Protection Against Side-Channel Attacks Added to OpenSSH
- TrueFort Secures $13.7 Million in Series A Funding
- New Attack Delivers FlawedAmmyy RAT Directly in Memory
- Iran Denies Being Hit by US Cyber Attack
- Mac Malware Delivered via Firefox Exploits Analyzed
- WeTransfer Security Incident: File Transfer Emails Sent to Wrong People
- Ex-Senate Aide Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison for Data Leak
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