Collaborate Disseminate
Microsoft has detailed how it intercepted a massive malware distribution campaign on March 6th which attempted to infect over 400,000 Windows PCs with cryptomining software in a single 12 hour period.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Se… Continue reading Poisoned BitTorrent client kickstarted malware outbreak that tried to infect 400,000 PCs
How come Apple’s Mac App Store authorised a buggy app that mined for cryptocurrency in the background? How can a Mosquito attack steal data from an air-gapped computer? And is China keeping score on its social media-loving citizens?
All this and much m… Continue reading Smashing Security #069: Cryptomining, China, and Bob Ross
Facebook takes action – banning anti-Islamic Britain First from its network.
Continue reading Facebook bans anti-Islamic group Britain First
A former Equifax executive, who sold nearly $1 million worth of shares before the company’s massive data breach was made public, has been charged with insider trading.
Continue reading Ex-Equifax exec charged with insider trading after selling $1 million worth of stock before data breach disclosure
A former Equifax executive, who sold nearly $1 million worth of shares before the company’s massive data breach was made public, has been charged with insider trading.
Continue reading Ex-Equifax exec charged with insider trading after selling $1 million worth of stock before data breach disclosure
Calendar 2 offered of its features for free if you allowed it to “unobtrusively” generate Monero cryptocurrency in the background.
Shame then that it wasn’t unobtrusive, and bugs meant it mined regardless of whether you wanted it to or not.
Continue reading Calendar 2 app pulled from Mac App Store after cryptomining controversy
Binance, one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges by trading volume, has offered a reward equivalent to $250,000 to anyone providing information that leads to the arrest of hackers who attacked the platform last week.
Read more in my article… Continue reading Know who hacked the Binance cryptocurrency exchange? Earn $250,000
Binance, one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges by trading volume, has offered a reward equivalent to $250,000 to anyone providing information that leads to the arrest of hackers who attacked the platform last week. For two minutes o… Continue reading Know who hacked the Binance cryptocurrency exchange? Earn $250,000
Just two weeks before the British government was due to introduce a compulsory order that pornographic websites verify their visitors’ ages, the controversial regulation has been pulled.
Continue reading Controversial age checks to access online porn delayed in UK
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