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Android malware apps with 2 million installs found on Google Play

A new batch of thirty-five Android malware apps that display unwanted advertisements was found on the Google Play Store, with the apps installed over 2 million times on victims’ mobile devices. […]

18 Aug

Janet Jackson’s music video is now a vulnerability for crashing hard disks

Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation music video of 1989 has officially been declared a security vulnerability as it freezes some models of hard drives on older computers. […]

18 Aug

Google blocks largest HTTPS DDoS attack ‘reported to date’

A Google Cloud Armor customer was hit with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack over the HTTPS protocol that reached 46 million requests per second (RPS), making it the largest ever recorded of its kind. […]

18 Aug

Winnti hackers split Cobalt Strike into 154 pieces to evade detection

The Chinese Winnti hacking group, also known as ‘APT41’ or ‘Wicked Spider,’ targeted at least 80 organizations last year and successfully breached the networks of at least thirteen. […]

18 Aug

Microsoft Sysmon can now block malicious EXEs from being created

Microsoft has released Sysmon 14 with a new ‘FileBlockExecutable’ option that lets you block the creation of malicious executables, such as EXE, DLL, and SYS files, for better protection against malware. […]

18 Aug

LibreOffice 7.4 released with MS Office compatibility improvements

LibreOffice 7.4 has been released, bringing multiple improvements, fixes, and the introduction of minor productivity-focused features across the entire suite’s programs. […]

17 Aug

New Windows PowerToys OCR tool will let you copy text from images

Microsoft PowerToys is getting a new utility called PowerOCR that lets you select text in an image and copy it directly to the Windows clipboard. […]

17 Aug

North Korean hackers use signed macOS malware to target IT job seekers

North Korean hackers from the Lazarus group have been using a signed malicious executable for macOS to impersonate Coinbase and lure in employees in the financial technology sector. […]

17 Aug

Malicious PyPi packages turn Discord into password-stealing malware

A dozen malicious PyPi packages have been discovered installing malware that modifies the Discord client to become an information-sealing backdoor and stealing data from web browsers and Roblox. […]

17 Aug

Malware devs already bypassed Android 13’s new security feature

Android malware developers are already adjusting their tactics to bypass a new ‘Restricted settings’ security feature introduced by Google in the newly released Android 13. […]