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The developers updated LibreOffice to versions 6.2.6 / 6.3.0, in which they fixed three serious vulnerabilities at once. These bugs allowed bypassing patches for other dangerous problems which specialists discovered earlier. The problems with previous patches were reported last month. In particular, then Cure53 specialist Alex Inführ warned that the …

U.S. Cyber Command has published several samples of the malware used by North Korean government hackers. All samples were uploaded on VirusTotal, popular service for file analysis. Cyber Command notified about the publication of malware samples via Twitter. The samples themselves can be found here and here. The downloaded malware …

Security experts analyzed a new interesting banking Trojan for the Android mobile operating system. The malware got the name Cerberus, and its author rents out its development (malware-as-a-service scheme). Cerberus is a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) designed from the ground up — without partial or full use of the code …

Twitter officials said the company recently discovered and fixed a problem in its advertising platform. Due to a bug, from May 2018 to August 2019, some data about users (without the consent of the latter) was provided to advertisers, including the country code of residence, the type of device they …

Echobot IoT Malware is another variation of the famous Mirai malware, discovered by information security experts at Palo Alto Networks in early June 2019. Akamai experts have already dedicated a detailed report to this threat, from which it became clear that Echobot is following the general trend: the authors of …

Last weekend, a number of publications simultaneously reported about hacking into the FSB contractor, Moscow-based Sytek company. The attackers, hiding under the pseudonym 0v1ru$, posted several screenshots on Twitter (for example, screenshots of the Computer folder that allegedly belonged to the victim), and also shared the stolen data with colleagues …

Following Google, Mozilla decided to display insecure icons on all HTTP sites downloaded by Firefox. New changes will affect Firefox 70 version, it is scheduled for release in October 2019. Previously, these icons were displayed only on sites that contain forms or login fields. According to Mozilla, since more than …

In the first quarter 2019 Google specialists personally watched more than million videos that potentially violate YouTube terrorism policy. Among the total number of viewed videos, about 90 000 really violated policy. It means that only 9% of clips were deleted. In letter to US House Committee on Homeland Security, …