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New Android malicious library Goldoson found in 60 apps +100M downloads

Security Affairs

The Goldoson library was discovered by researchers from McAfee’s Mobile Research Team, it collects lists of applications installed on a device, and a history of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices information, including nearby GPS locations. It is important to highlight that the library was not developed by the authors of the apps.

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FritzFrog P2P Botnet is back and targets Healthcare, Education and Government Sectors

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FritzFrog P2P botnet is back and is targeting servers belonging to entities in the healthcare, education, and government sectors. The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in the government, education, and finance sectors. ” reads the report published by Akamai.

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FBI warns of PYSA Ransomware attacks against Education Institutions in US and UK

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The FBI has issued an alert to warn about an increase in PYSA ransomware attacks on education institutions in the US and UK. The FBI has issued Tuesday an alert to warn about an increase in PYSA ransomware attacks against education institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom. ” reads the FBI’s alert.

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Avast released a free decryptor for the Windows version of the Akira ransomware

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Avast released a free decryptor for the Akira ransomware that can allow victims to recover their data without paying the ransom. Cybersecurity firm Avast released a free decryptor for the Akira ransomware that can allow victims to recover their data without paying the ransom. The authors used Microsoft Linker version 14.35.

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Rhysida ransomware gang is auctioning data stolen from the British Library

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The Rhysida ransomware group claimed responsibility for the recent cyberattack on the British Library that has caused a major IT outage. The Rhysida ransomware gang added the British Library to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. It is one of the largest libraries in the world. ” reads the announcement.

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Sky.com servers exposed via misconfiguration

Security Affairs

CyberNews researchers found an exposed configuration file hosted on a Sky.com subdomain containing production data. After we reported the issue to Sky on October 8, a company representative informed CyberNews that Sky has “taken action to address the issue.” There’s no way to tell what data is being stored on the production server.

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Malicious file analysis – Example 01

Security Affairs

PdfParser, a standalone PHP library, provides various tools to extract data from a PDF file. ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing, and editing meta information in a wide variety of files. Example: peframe file_name. Pdf-parser. Example: python2.7 pdf-parser.py

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