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Android
New class of attacks affects all Android versions

Researchers have demonstrated how a malicious app with two specific permission can stealthily compromise users’ Android devices. “The possible attacks include …

Wi-Fi
Lure10: Exploiting Wi-Fi Sense to MITM wireless Windows devices

Karma has long been a staple man-in-the-middle attack used in authorised wireless security assessments and unsanctioned ones, but as many modern operating systems now provide …

Windows
DoubleAgent attack uses built-in Windows tool to hijack applications

Security researchers from computer and network security outfit Cybellum have revealed a new zero-day code injection and persistence technique that can be used by attackers to …

Apache Struts
Apache servers under attack through easily exploitable Struts 2 flaw

A critical vulnerability in Apache Struts 2 is being actively and heavily exploited, even though the patch for it has been released on Monday. System administrators are …

structure
New attack sounds death knell for widely used SHA-1 crypto hash function

SHA-1 is definitely, provenly dead, as a group of researchers from CWI Institute in Amsterdam and Google have demonstrated the first practical technique for generating a …

attack
Attack types companies expect to encounter in 2017

What are the key attack types expected to cause the biggest security problems in 2017 and how successful will businesses be at defending against them? Tripwire and Dimensional …

Researchers bypass ASLR protection with simple JavaScript code

A group of researchers from the Systems and Network Security Group at VU Amsterdam have discovered a way to bypass address space layout randomization (ASLR) protections of …

find
Banks around the world targeted in watering hole attacks

The January attacks against Polish financial institutions through the booby-trapped site of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority are just one piece of a larger puzzle, …

Gmail
Simple Gmail spoofing leaves users open to targeted attacks

Gmail shows no warning as it delivers legitimate-looking spoofed emails seemingly coming from an existing Gmail.com address, even though they come from a non-Gmail server. …

danger
Banks around the world hit with fileless malware

Kaspersky Lab researchers have brought to light a series of attacks leveraged against 140+ banks and other businesses around the world. But what makes these attacks unusual is …

unmask mask digital persona
Uncloaking Tor Browser users with DRM-protected files

Digital Rights Management (DRM)-protected media files can be used to reveal Tor Browser users’ actual IP address and therefore possibly reveal their identity, …

Tesco Bank card
Did Tesco Bank attackers guess victims’ payment card details?

A group of researchers from Newcastle University have discovered a practical and easy way for attackers to quickly guess individuals’ Visa payment card info needed to …

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