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Flash 0-day exploit found in Hacking Team’s leaked data exploited by criminals

Human rights and privacy activists and journalists are actively reviewing the data stolen in the Hacking Team breach.Reporters of The Intercept have concentrated on going …

Hacking Team scrambling to limit damage brought on by explosive data leak

Who hacked Hacking Team, the Milan-based company selling intrusion and surveillance software to governments, law enforcement agencies and (as it turns out) companies? A hacker …

Flaw allows hijacking of professional surveillance AirLive cameras

Nahuel Riva, a research engineer from Core Security, discovered vulnerabilities in AirLive’s surveillance cameras designed for professional surveillance and security …

Fake Android battery monitor app thoroughly compromises users’ devices

“Downloading apps from Google Play is a safer proposition than doing it from third party markets, but despite Google using an automated app scanning service …

Hackers targeting users of Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC, Lloyds Bank and Santander

19,000 malicious emails have been sent in three days from spam servers worldwide, inviting users to download an archive containing a malicious .exe file. Bitdefender warns …

Another malware building toolkit leaked, botnets already popping up

“Another malware building toolkit has been leaked, allowing less tech-savvy crooks to generate a fully functional variant of the KINS banking Trojan and to inject its …

Old MS Office feature can be exploited to deliver, execute malware

A Microsoft Office functionality that has been in use since the early 1990s can be exploited to deliver malicious, executable files to users without triggering widely used …

Let’s Encrypt CA releases transparency report before its first certificate

The non-profit CA launched by the EFF, Mozilla and several other businesses and organizations is determined to gain and retain users’ trust. After hiring outside experts …

Reactions to the Hacking Team breach

Hacking Team, the (in)famous Italian company that provides offensive intrusion and surveillance software to governments, intelligence and law enforcement agencies around the …

Man gets 50 months in prison hacking U.S.-based financial institutions

Qendrim Dobruna, a member of an international cybercrime syndicate, was sentenced to 50 months’ imprisonment and restitution in the amount of $14 million for his role in …

Hacking Team hacked, 400GB+ of company documents and emails leaked

Hacking Team, the (in)famous Italian company that provides offensive intrusion and surveillance software to governments, intelligence and law enforcement agencies around the …

Week in review: Popular VPNs leaking data, and the new issue of (IN)SECURE Magazine

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles:5 ways to stop the Internet of Things from becoming the Internet of ThievesThis is the …

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