Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2019

A researcher discovered a critical Linux vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-17666 , that could be exploited to fully compromise vulnerable machines. Nico Waisman, principal security engineer at Github, discovered a critical Linux flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-17666 , that could be exploited by attackers to fully compromise vulnerable machines. Found this bug on Monday.

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WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 19, 2019

A Samsung Galaxy 10 fingerprint goof, a Tor impostor, and more of the week's top security news.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Over 600 million UC Browser and UC Browser Mini Android users have been exposed to man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks. More than 600 million users of the popular UC Browser and UC Browser Mini Android apps have been exposed to man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks by downloading an Android Package Kit (APK) from a third party server over unprotected channels.

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WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 19, 2019

As data hijackers continue to target local governments and hospitals, legislators remain stymied over how best to address the problem.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Emsisoft firm has released a new free decryption tool the STOP (Djvu) ransomware, in the last months the research team helped victims of many other threats. STOP (Djvu) ransomware has 160 variants that infected more hundreds of thousands of victims worldwide. Experts estimated a total number of 460,000 victims, that makes this threat the most active and widespread ransomware today.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Threat actors leverage malicious plugins that hide in plain sight to backdoor WordPress websites and to use them for brute-forcing other sites. The use of fake WordPress plugins installed by hackers is not a novelty, recently at Sucuri observed multiple infections aimed at installing fake plugins with backdoor capabilities. Attackers use automated tools to create malicious WordPress plugins or by and include in their code malicious payloads such as web shells.

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