Specialists from the Dutch information security company SanSec have discovered that the hacker group Lazarus (aka Hidden cobra) practices web-skimming and hacks online stores. They also managed to find connection between North Korean hackers and MageCart attacks. Let me remind you that initially the name MageCart was assigned to one …
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According to Bloomberg, Chinese hackers could steal innovations from computer networks of Canadian Nortel and, probably, their success in the development of 5G Huawei may be due to cyber espionage. Long before the Chinese company Huawei achieved great success in the field of 5G technology, in 2000s the large Canadian …
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Lookout experts published a 52-page report that details the multi-year campaign aimed at the Uighurs, Muslim minority living mainly in western China. Lookout experts describe a link between Chinese hackers who led this campaign and a defense contractor. As part of this campaign, citizen’s devices since 2013 have been infected …
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Recently, we talked about how Trustwave specialists found that an unnamed Chinese bank forced Western companies to install official tax software containing a backdoor. Now it became known that Chinese developers secretly released an uninstaller for the backdoor, which was called GoldenSpy. The suspicious program is called Intelligent Tax, and …
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Officials at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have announced that they have paid cybercriminals about $1 million to recover data encrypted during a ransomware attack earlier this month. UCSF is one of the leading centers of the world in the fields of medical research, dentistry, patient care and …
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Malwarebytes experts discovered that MageCart hackers use a kind of steganography and hide web skimmers in EXIF image metadata and use images to extract stolen data. Initially, the name MageCart was assigned to one hack group, which first began to use the so-called web skimmers on websites to steal bank …
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Trustwave specialists found that an unnamed Chinese bank forced at least two western companies to install official tax software containing the GoldenSpy backdoor. The names of the affected companies were not disclosed, but it is known that they were a financial institution and a software provider that recently opened offices …
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My long-time partner Gridinsoft with whom I have been collaborating in the fight against online threats for several years reported a pause in our relationship with an explanation that I have discredited myself as a specialist. For some weeks now, unknown people have been attacking me with threatening letters, false …
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Developers of the anonymous Tails operating system are intrigued how their OS was hacked. Tails experts are trying to find out the details of the attack, which Facebook and the FBI resorted to catch the criminal who was chasing the girls on a social network. As Adware Guru previously reported, …
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At the beginning of this week, a group of DDoSecrets activists (Distributed Denial of Secrets), describing itself as a “champion of transparency” published 269 GB of data publicly owned by law enforcement agencies and data centers in the United States. It has now become known that Twitter has blocked the …
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