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

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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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Researchers disclose critical sandbox escape bug in vm2 sandbox library

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The development team behind the vm2 JavaScript sandbox library addressed a critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability. servers, it has approximately four million weekly downloads and its library is part of 722 packages. servers, it has approximately four million weekly downloads and its library is part of 722 packages.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The first iPhone Rapid Security Response update released by Apple fails to install

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Apple has released its first Rapid Security Response update, but many iPhone users reported problems during the installation of the iOS Security Response. On June 2022, Apple announced that the Rapid Security Response feature would be available starting with iOS 16.4.1, ” “iOS Security Response 16.4.1 (a)

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Quebec shuts down thousands of sites as disclosure of the Log4Shell flaw

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Quebec shut down nearly 4,000 of its sites in response to the discovery of the Log4Shell flaw in the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library. Quebec shut down nearly 4,000 of its sites as a preventative measure after the disclosure of a PoC exploit for the Log4Shell flaw ( CVE-2021-44228 ) in the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library.

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CISA adds MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The vulnerability is an Integer overflow in the Skia graphics library, the issue was reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on April 12, 2023.

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