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Cornell University academics launched a CanaryTrap tool for detecting data misuse: 16 Facebook apps caught recording personal emails A group of academics[1], namely Shehroze Farooqi, Maaz Musa, Zubair Shafiq, and Fareed Zaffar, from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, has found a fully functional software for detecting data misuse by third-party […]

16 Facebook apps were caught red-handed by CanaryTrap tool

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Windows POS malware dubbed Alina steals credit card data from victims using the DNS tunneling Researchers revealed that a new malware campaign involves Alina point-of-sale malware that gathers credit card data from unsuspected victims.[1] Malware was discovered using the DNS protocol to gather information about credit cards to a remote […]

Malware uses the DNS to scrape credit card numbers from ...

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EvilQuest – a rare Mac ransomware virus that is capable of locking data, recording keystrokes, and wiping away sensitive data EvilQuest, a.k.a. OSX.ThiefQuest or ThiefQuest – a multifunctional ransomware virus targeting macOS machines has been detected by Dinesh Devadoss[1], a researcher from K7 Labs, at the end of June 2020. MacOS is […]

EvilQuest Mac ransomware and keylogger found on torrent sites

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Watering hole attacks against the Kurdish community in Syria and Turkey aiming to exfiltrate data revealed Retooled spyware got used in new advanced StrongPity hacker attacks.[1] Cybersecurity researchers revealed that attacks in Syria and Turkey with surveillance and intelligence exfiltration purposes were held by the persistent threat operators known as […]

StrongPity APT back: targeting Syria and Turkey with new malware ...

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Researchers identified Docker Hub community user account that contained malicious crypto-mining images The report released by Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 team shows that Docker images got used to generate Monero by deploying cryptocurrency miner malware.[1] The malicious Docker Hub account, active since October 2019, was indicated as the one […]

Docker Hub used to distribute Monero cryptocurrency mining malware

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