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GUEST ESSAY: Why any sudden influx of spam emails is an indicator of a likely security issue

The Last Watchdog

Related: How AI can relieve security pros What causes spam emails? Leaked email: Companies or third-party vendors put email address security at risk when they experience data breaches. Typically, scammers want to get ahold of an email because it’s a gold mine of information. Spam emails are a security concern.

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Over 200 Apps on Play Store were distributing Facestealer info-stealer

Security Affairs

Trend Micro researchers spotted over 200 Android apps on the Play Store distributing spyware called Facestealer used to steal sensitive data from infected devices. Trend Micro researchers also discovered 40 fake cryptocurrency miner apps that are variants of similar apps that they discovered in August 2021. To nominate, please visit:?

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Lemon_Duck cryptomining botnet targets Docker servers

Security Affairs

The Lemon_Duck cryptomining botnet is targeting Docker servers to mine cryptocurrency on Linux systems. Crowdstrikes researchers reported that the Lemon_Duck cryptomining botnet is targeting Docker to mine cryptocurrency on Linux systems. “The “a.asp” file is the actual payload in this attack. ” concludes the report.

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Android Debugging Tools Also Useful for Compromising Devices, Mining Cryptocurrency

Security Affairs

In an ideal world, all of the security controls are applied and all of the debugging tools are removed or disabled before the code is released to the public. ” These are very powerful functions for debugging tools, and also useful for executing malicious code without being trapped by the usual security controls.

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Weekly podcast: Australian Cabinet Files, Matt Hancock MP’s app and Monero mining

IT Governance

This week, we discuss the Australian government’s loss of thousands of classified documents, DCMS Secretary of State Matt Hancock’s buggy new app and the growing trend of cybercriminals using cryptocurrency miners. Wait a moment – cryptocurrency mining ? Here are this week’s stories. Ed Balls day is 28 April.). What’s that?

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Alert! Unpatched critical Atlassian Confluence Zero-Day RCE flaw actively exploited

Security Affairs

The issue was reported by security firm Volexity, the company announced the availability of the security fixes for supported versions of Confluence within 24 hours (estimated time, by EOD June 3 PDT). Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS.

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Atlassian addresses a critical Jira authentication bypass flaw

Security Affairs

” reads the security advisory published by the company. Customers that are using any apps listed in the Determining which apps are affected section and all versions of the app are affected can mitigate the security risk by disabling the app until they’re able to install a fixed version of Jira or Jira Service Management.