Data Breach Today

JUNE 13, 2020

Suspected Russia-Linked Hackers Have Previously Focused on Ukraine The Gamaredon hacking group is now using a new set of malicious tools to compromise Microsoft Outlook as a way of sending spear-phishing emails to victims' contact lists, according to security firm ESET. This hacking group, which appears to have ties to Russia, has primarily targeted Ukraine for years.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 13, 2020

For the past year, a site called Privnotes.com has been impersonating Privnote.com , a legitimate, free service that offers private, encrypted messages which self-destruct automatically after they are read. Until recently, I couldn’t quite work out what Privnotes was up to, but today it became crystal clear: Any messages containing bitcoin addresses will be automatically altered to include a different bitcoin address, as long as the Internet addresses of the sender and receiver of the mess

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2020

One of the most recent threats is the info stealer TroyStealer , first shared by Abuse.ch on Twitter, and targeting Portuguese users. The world of cybercrime is changing, and more and more malware variants have spread every day. To keep your system safe, one of the things you can do is following a cyber doctrine focused on the threats that lunk on the web.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 13, 2020

Hackers for hire, a particularly ignominious phishing campaign, and more of the week’s top security news.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2020

D-Link has released a firmware update to address three security flaws impacting the DIR-865L home router model, but left some issue unpatched. D-Link has recently released a firmware update to address three out of six security flaws impacting the DIR-865L wireless home router. Below the list of vulnerabilities affecting the D-Link home routers: CVE-2020-13782 : Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Used in a Command (Command Injection) – critical-severity score 9.8, not fixed CVE-202

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2020

Threat actors continue to use COVID-19 lures, Google is reporting an increase in Coronavirus-themed phishing attempts in Brazil, India, and the UK. While Coronavirus spreads on a global scale, threat actors continues to use COVID-19 lures , in April Google announced that the Gmail malware scanners have blocked around 18 million phishing and malware emails using COVID-19 lures in just one week.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2020

Lamphone – Researchers demonstrated how to spy on secret conversations in a room from a nearby remote location just by measuring the amount of light emitted by a light bulb. A team of academics from Israeli Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Weizmann Institute of Science demonstrated how to spy on secret conversations in a room from a nearby remote location just by measuring the amount of light emitted by an overhead hanging light bulb.

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