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Meme editor Kapwing grows 10X, raises $11M

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Kapwing is a laymen’s Adobe Creative Suite built for what people actually do on the internet: make memes and remix media. Need to resize a video? Add text or subtitles to a video? Trim or crop or loop or frame or rotate or soundtrack or… Then you need Kapwing. The free web and mobile tool […] Continue reading Meme editor Kapwing grows 10X, raises $11M→

Malware Using Memes Posted on Twitter as C&C Service

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Researchers have observed a new threat using malicious memes posted on Twitter to receive command-and-control (C&C) instructions. Trend Micro observed that the malicious activity begins after a threat detected as “TROJAN.MSIL.BERBOMTHUM.AA&#8… Continue reading Malware Using Memes Posted on Twitter as C&C Service→

Memes posted to Twitter have been coded to talk to malware

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You have probably seen dank memes that really speak to you, but research shows that memes can also be made to speak to malware that has infected a computer. A piece of malware analyzed in a report published Friday by Trend Micro responds to executable commands embedded in images posted on Twitter. Hackers used stenography to conceal the command “/print” within a specific meme in such a way that’s invisible to a casual observer, prompting the malicious software to send a screenshot to a command and control server. The malware has to already be in place on the victim’s computer for the trick to work. Researchers said they weren’t aware of the malware’s delivery mechanism. It’s worth noting that Twitter as a platform does not host any malicious software in this scheme. The malware, once it infects the system, downloads the image from the hacker’s Twitter account and searches it for commands. Twitter […]

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Hackaday Links: September 16, 2018

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Apple released a phone, the most phone in the history of phones. It’s incredible.

There are four machines that are the cornerstone of electronic music. The TR-808, the TR-909, the TB-303, and the SH-101 are the machines that created techno, house, and every other genre of electronic music. This week at KnobCon Behringer, the brand famous for cheap mixers, other audio paraphernalia of questionable quality, and a clone of the Minimoog, teased their clone of the 909. Unlike the Roland reissue, this is a full-sized 909, much like Behringer’s clone of the 808. Price is said to be under $400, …read more

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