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Doctor Web specialists found in the Google Play catalog a malware that allowed remote control of infected Android devices and monitor users. The malicious program received the Android.Backdoor.736.origin identifier and was distributed under the mask of the OpenGL Plugin application, supposedly intended to check the version of the OpenGL ES …

Security researcher Karan Lyons reported a serious vulnerability in RingCentral video conferencing services (used by 350,000 organizations) and Zhumu (in fact, it is Chinese version of Zoom). Thanks to it, attackers could gain access to cameras and microphones of laptops. “RingCentral (and Zhumu, and likely all of Zoom’s white labels …

According to researcher Edin Jusupovic, social network Facebook includes hidden codes in photos uploaded by users to the site. The company can track the activity associated with them and use this data to target advertising. “I noticed a structural anomaly while viewing the dump in hexadecimal format from an unknown …

There was a global failure in the work of the European satellite navigation system “Galileo”. The system went down on Thursday, July 11, and has not yet resumed its work. On the “Galileo” work status page, 24 out of 26 satellites are marked as “unusable”, and the remaining two are …

The Federal Trade Commission has fined Facebook $ 5 billion. This decision was made by the regulator based on the results of a long-standing investigation regarding the practices of the Internet giant, which provided insufficient user privacy. “It would also represent one of the most aggressive regulatory actions by the …

Several German banks have announced plans to abandon the use of one-time SMS passwords as a method of authorization and transaction confirmation. The reason for the refusal of one-time SMS passwords is the new EU legislation, which will come into full force on September 14, 2019. Handelsblatt reports that Postbank …

The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint reported a loss of 3.5 billion yen ($32 million) in the attack by cybercriminals. According to representatives of cryptobirzhi, the incident occurred on July 11. Bitpoint suspended all operations while experts are investigating the hacking. “Bitpoint, which is owned by Remixpoint – a company listed …

Specialists from Ben-Gurion University (Israel) have developed a method to extract data from physically isolated systems using the Caps Lock, Num Lock and Scroll Lock LED indicators on the keyboard. The new method is called CTRL-ALT-LED. For a successful attack, an attacker will need to pre-infect an isolated system with …

Apple has deactivated the Walkie Talkie app on the Apple Watch due to a vulnerability that allows eavesdropping on other people’s phone conversations. The application itself will still remain on the devices, but it will not work until the manufacturer solves the problem. The Walkie-Talkie feature debuted last year with …

An author of the Pale Moon browser, which goes online under the nickname MoonChild, revealed information about the compromised server archive.palemoon.org, which kept the archive of past browser releases up to version 27.6.2 inclusively. During the hacking attackers infected with malware all executable files on the server with the Pale …