Microsoft Launcher for Android Gets a Big Update with Lots of New Features

Today, Microsoft is rolling out a new update for its Android Launcher app that comes with a set of new features. The update advances Microsoft Launcher app to version 4.11 and with this release, the company is adding several new exciting features after previously testing them wit … | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Fake Adult Sites Pushing Unwanted Extensions, Miners, and Adware

Adware, PUPs, and unwanted extensions are being promoted through fake sites that pretend to be adult video sites. When you click play on the video, a fake video player popup will be displayed that states you must download and install an updated media player to see the video. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Chrome and Firefox Pull Stylish Add-On After Report It Logged Browser History

Google and Mozilla have removed the Stylish browser extension from their respective add-on stores after the publication of a report this week that accused the extension of logging users' browser histories and sending the data to remote servers. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Someone Is Playing Pranks on GTA Gamers by Fake-Announcing GTA 6

The makers of Grand Theft Auto (GTA) Online mods have played a cruel prank on GTA gamers this week after they used their mods to show fake GTA 6 launch announcements to online gamers. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

German Police Accused of Carrying Out Some Pretty Stupid Raids

Two privacy-focused organizations have accused today German police of carrying out raids at their offices and members' private homes on some pretty shoddy reasoning that makes no sense and hints at the police's abuse of power. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

New Stealth Material Can Hide Objects from Infrared Scans

Scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) have developed a new type of material that can hide an object's heat signature from infrared sensors. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Cisco Removes Backdoor Account, Fourth in the Last Four Months

For the fourth time in as many months, Cisco has removed hardcoded credentials that were left inside one of its products, which an attacker could have exploited to gain access to devices and inherently to customer networks. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Download Bomb Trick Returns in Chrome Plus Firefox, Opera, Vivaldi and Brave

The release of Google Chrome 67 has reopened a "download bomb" bug that was exploited by tech support scammers last winter, and which had been fixed with the release of Chrome 65 in March 2018. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Iranian APT Poses as Israeli Cyber-Security Firm That Exposed Its Operations

An Iranian cyber-espionage group attempted to pose as one of the cyber-security firms that exposed its previous hacking campaigns in an effort to spear-phish people interested in reading reports about it. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Facebook Acknowledges It Shared User Data with 61 Companies

In a 747-page document provided to the US House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee on Friday, Facebook admitted that it granted special access to users' data to 61 tech companies. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

App Masks Hidden Printer Tracking Dots to Keep Whistleblowers Safe

Four academics from the Technical University in Dresden, Germany (TU Dresden) have created an app that detects and masks the hidden dot patterns that laser color printers secretly hide on all printed documents. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

DNS Poisoning or BGP Hijacking Suspected Behind Trezor Wallet Phishing Incident

The team behind the Trezor wallet service has discovered a phishing attack against some of its users that took place over the weekend. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Microsoft Fixes Faulty Debian Package That Messes with User Settings

Microsoft fixed yesterday a faulty Debian package that was messing with users' OS settings during its installation routine. The faulty package that was causing all the problems was Open R v3.5. Open R is an enhanced version of the R programming language maintained by Microsoft. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Typeform Announces Breach After Hacker Grabs Backup File

Barcelona-based online survey and form building service Typeform announced a data breach today after an unknown attacker downloaded a backup file containing sensitive customer information. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Security Flaws Disclosed in LTE (4G) Mobile Telephony Standard

A team of academics has published research yesterday that describes three attacks against the mobile communication standard LTE (Long-Term Evolution), also known as 4G. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Thousands of Apps Leak Sensitive Data via Misconfigured Firebase Back Ends

Thousands of iOS and Android mobile applications are exposing over 113 GBs of data via over 2,271 misconfigured Firebase databases, according to a report released this week by mobile security firm Appthority. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Rewards of Up to $500,000 Offered for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux Zero-Days

Exploit broker Zerodium is offering rewards of up to $500,000 for zero-days in UNIX-based operating systems like OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, but also for Linux distros such as Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, and Tails. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

File-Wiping Malware Placed Inside Gentoo Linux Code After GitHub Account Hack

An unknown hacker has temporarily taken control over the GitHub account of the Gentoo Linux organization and embedded malicious code inside the operating system's distributions that would delete user files. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

All-Radio 4.27 Portable Can't Be Removed? Then Your PC Is Severely Infected

Starting yesterday, there have been numerous reports of people being infected with something called "All-Radio 4.27 Portable". After researching this heavily today, it has been determined that seeing this program is a symptom of a much bigger problem on your computer. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

National Security Concerns Over Hackers Commandeering Satellites

The number of satellites transmitting GPS locations, cellphone signals and other sensitive information has been rapidly increasing, which has resulted in the creation of favorable circumstances for hackers. Even with all the advances in satellite technology, much of the US milita … | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

ProtonMail DDoS Attacks Are a Case Study of What Happens When You Mock Attackers

For the past two days, secure email provider ProtonMail has been fighting off DDoS attacks that have visibly affected the company's services, causing short but frequent outages at regular intervals. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Some Spectre In-Browser Mitigations Can Be Defeated

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@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Cisco ASA Flaw Exploited in the Wild After Publication of Two PoCs

Hackers are exploiting a vulnerability in Cisco software to crash and/or retrieve information from affected devices. Cisco is aware of the issue and has warned customers last week, Friday, June 22. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Windows 10 Insider Build 17704 Is Now Available. Here’s Whats New

Microsoft just released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17704 (Redstone 5) to Windows Insiders in the Fast and Skip Ahead Rings. Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17704 comes with a huge amount of improvements and new features that include ones for Microsoft Edge, new Skype exper … | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

NSA Exploit “DoublePulsar” Patched to Work on Windows IoT Systems

An infosec researcher who uses the online pseudonym of Capt. Meelo has modified an NSA hacking tool known as DoublePulsar to work on the Windows IoT operating system (formerly known as Windows Embedded). | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Office of Cyberspace Reborn in Bill Approved by Senate Panel

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted today to advance bill H.R. 3776, the Cyber Diplomacy Act. This bill outlines the restoration of the State Department's Cyber Office under the new name of Office of Cyberspace and the Digital Economy and the reinstatement of a head of c … | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Unpatched Flaw Disclosed in WordPress CMS Core

Security researchers from RIPS disclosed today details about an unpatched security flaw impacting WordPress, the Internet's most popular content management system (CMS). | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Windows Settings Shortcuts Can Be Abused for Code Execution on Windows 10

A new file type format added in Windows 10 can be abused for running malicious code on users' computers, according to Matt Nelson, a security researcher for SpecterOps. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Hundreds of Hotels Affected by Data Breach at Hotel Booking Software Provider

The personal details and payment card data of guests from hundreds of hotels, if not more, have been stolen this month by an unknown attacker, Bleeping Computer has learned. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

New WPA3 Wi-Fi Standard Released

On Monday, the Wi-Fi Alliance, the organization that manages Wi-Fi technologies, announced the official release of WPA3. WPA3 is the latest version of Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), a user authentication technology for Wi-Fi connections. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Firefox 61 Released for Windows, Mac, and Linux

Mozilla will release Firefox 61 later today. The new browser version includes new features, bugfixes, security fixes, and modifications to the Firefox UI. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Researchers: Last Year’s ICOs Had Five Security Vulnerabilities on Average

Security researchers have found, on average, five security flaws in each cryptocurrency ICO (Initial Coin Offering) held last year. Only one ICO held in 2017 did not contain any critical flaws. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Changes in WebAssembly Could Render Meltdown and Spectre Browser Patches Useless

Upcoming additions to the WebAssembly standard may render useless some of the mitigations put up at the browser level against Meltdown and Spectre attacks, according to John Bergbom, a security researcher at Forcepoint. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

India Tells Banks to Migrate ATMs from Windows XP by June 2019

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the country's s central banking authority, told local banks to update all ATMs still running Windows XP to a newer operating system by June 2019, or face regulatory sanctions. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Someone Is Taking Over Insecure Cameras and Spying on Device Owners

Many brands of webcams, security cameras, pet and baby monitors, use a woefully insecure cloud-based remote control system that can allow hackers to take over devices by performing Internet scans, modifying the device ID parameter, and using a default password to gain control ove … | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Man gets 20 years in jail for attempting to hijack domain at gunpoint

An Iowa man will go to prison for the next 20 years after he attempted to hijack an Internet domain at gunpoint, tased and shot the victim, and got shot back himself. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

New MysteryBot Android Malware Packs a Banking Trojan, Keylogger, and Ransomware

Cybercriminals are currently developing a new strain of malware targeting Android devices which blends the features of a banking trojan, keylogger, and mobile ransomware. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

New SamSam Variant Requires Special Password Before Infection

New versions of the SamSam ransomware will not execute unless the person running the malware's payload enters a special password via the command-line. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Microsoft Edge Bug Exposes Content from Other Sites via Audio Files

A weird Edge bug that was fixed earlier this month, allows a malicious website to retrieve content from other sites by playing audio files in a malformed manner that produces unintended consequences. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

MacOS Breaks Your OpSec by Caching Data from Encrypted Hard Drives

Apple's macOS surreptitiously creates and caches thumbnails for images and other file types stored on password-protected / encrypted containers (hard drives, partitions), according to Wojciech Reguła and Patrick Wardle, two macOS security experts. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Rootkit-Based Adware Wreaks Havoc Among Windows 10 Users in the US

Security researchers from Romania-based antivirus vendor Bitdefender say they've discovered a new adware strain named Zacinlo that uses a rootkit component to gain persistence across OS reinstalls, a rootkit component that's even effective against Windows 10 installations. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Android App Devs Find Clever Trick for Fooling Users into Installing Crapware

An expert in Android security is warning users that some developers of crappy Android apps have come up with a new trick for fooling users into installing their apps. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Kaspersky Halts Europol and NoMoreRansom Project Coop After EU Parliament Vote

Kaspersky Lab announced it was temporarily halting its cooperation with Europol following the voting of a controversial motion in the European Parliament today. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

17 Backdoored Docker Images Removed from Docker Hub

The Docker team has pulled 17 Docker container images that have been backdoored and used to install reverse shells and cryptocurrency miners on users' servers for the past year. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Dark Web Drug Vendor Pleads Guilty After Feds Traced His Bitcoin Transactions

Gal Vallerius, a 36-year-old French national pleaded guilty this week in the US of selling narcotics on the Dark Web under the nickname of OxyMonster. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Trik Spam Botnet Leaks 43M Email Addresses

Over 43 million email addresses have leaked from the command and control server of a spam botnet, a security researcher has told Bleeping Computer today. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Today, the EU Will Vote If to Ban Kaspersky Products from Official EU Networks

In a plenary session of the European Parliament that will be held today in Strasbourg, France, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will vote on a motion for resolution which includes a clause to ban the use of software programs "that have been confirmed as malicious, such a … | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Ten Malicious Libraries Found on PyPI – Python Package Index

The Slovak National Security Office (NBU) has identified ten malicious Python libraries uploaded on PyPI — Python Package Index — the official third-party software repository for the Python programming language. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago