Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2019

Experts discovered PDF exploit that was using steganography to hide malicious JavaScript code in images embedded in PDF files. The exploit analysis firm EdgeSpot recently discovered PDF exploit that was using steganography to hide malicious JavaScript code in images embedded in PDF files. “Shortly after last week’s discovery of a PDF exploit which used the method of this.getPageNumWords() & this.getPageNthWord() for obfuscation, we found another, but much more powerful exploit ob

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JANUARY 26, 2019

Google's elite security team, police scanner encryption, and more of the week's top security news.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2019

The Ukrainian authorities are observing a surge in allege state-sponsored attacks aimed at disrupting the upcoming presidential election. Ukraine reported a surge in cyber attacks aimed at disrupting the upcoming presidential election, the Government believes that Russian nation-state actors could be responsible for them. The news was reported by Reuters, attackers intensified attacks against the Ukrainian government and political party, according to the experts with the clear intent of disrupti

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Information Matters

JANUARY 26, 2019

Which Countries Are Leading the Data Economy? – Harvard Business Review. 24 January 2019 “Which countries are the top data producers? After all, with data-fueled applications of artificial intelligence projected, by McKinsey, to generate $13 trillion in new global economic activity by 2030, this could determine the next world order, much like the role that oil production has played in creating economic power players in the preceding century.” [link].

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2019

Check Point released a security update to address a flaw in its ZoneAlarm security software that could allow privilege escalation. Check Point released a security update to fix a vulnerability in its antivirus and firewall ZoneAlarm, the flaw could be exploited by attackers to escalate privileges on a system running it. The flaw was discovered last year by security firm Illumant , it was caused by the use of Microsoft’s Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) framework in the implementation of th

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2019

Security experts at McAfee have discovered a new malware, dubbed Anatova ransomware, that has been spotted infecting computers worldwide. The name Anatova is based on a name in the ransom note that is dropped on the infected systems. The Anatova ransomware outstands for its obfuscation capabilities and ability to infect network shares, it has a modular structure that allows add ing new functions to the malware. “During our continuous hunt for new threats, we discovered a new ransomware fam

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