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Chinese websites have been under attack for a week via a new PHP framework bug
December 21, 2018
Over 45,000 Chinese websites have been under a barrage of attacks from miscreants looking to gain access to web servers, ZDNet has learned.
Hackers Exploit Malware Attacks Through Twitter Memes
December 20, 2018
When it is about memes, people usually download them right away on their devices to share further. Posting memes on Facebook and Twitter has become something of a trend today. But, did you ever wonder you could also download malware with these memes? Researchers have discovered some malicious Twitter memes posted on an account that Twitter has since suspended.
Google pulls 15 apps from Play Store for fraudulent ad revenue grab
December 19, 2018
Preying on an individuals’ desire to personalize their mobile phones, scammers infused at least 15 Android wallpaper apps to redirect phony ad click revenue, reported Trend Micro in a blog post.
The Google Play Store removed the mobile phone apps, which were downloaded more than 222,200 times while being available over a period of several months. Victims were spotted in Italy, Taiwan, the United States, Germany and Indonesia appeared to be the most infected, according to Trend
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New malware pulls its instructions from code hidden in memes posted to Twitter
December 18, 2018
Security researchers said they’ve found a new kind of malware that takes its instructions from code hidden in memes posted to Twitter.
Memes posted to Twitter have been coded to talk to malware
December 17, 2018
You have probably seen dank memes that really speak to you, but research shows that memes can also be made to speak to malware that has infected a computer. A piece of malware analyzed in a report published Friday by Trend Micro responds to executable commands embedded in images posted on Twitter.
Smart Cities: Could These IoT Design Flaws Put The Lights Out?
December 6, 2018
New research has highlighted an old problem: The Internet of Things isn't exactly secure. Hardly news, you might say, but the researchers from Trend Micro discovered that two popular IoT protocols are insecure by design. So insecure, indeed, that they are putting both 'Industry 4.0' smart factory implementations and smart cities at risk. In fact, these are the design flaws that could quite literally turn the lights out.
Top IoT messaging protocols are laughably insecure, Trend Micro research shows
December 4, 2018
Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro today published a report on the state of IoT security. The company found that two of the leading machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols have inherent design issues, and are frequently deployed in an insecure manner.
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How AWS Keeps Growing Customers, Partners and Revenue
November 29, 2018
NEWS ANALYSIS: AWS is on a $27 billion run rate growing 46 percent a year, CEO Andy Jassy said. Its customer and partner rolls continue to swell, and it's even taking its first steps into what until now has been a missing link: open source.
Researchers earn thousands for exposing mobile device exploits at Pwn2Own
November 14, 2018
Security researchers competing in the Pwn2Own competition in Tokyo this week earned a collective $325,000 for demonstrating new exploits on devices made by Samsung, Xiaomi, and Apple.
Pwn2Own, a series of contests run by the Zero Day Initiative, brings security researchers to compete to expose the most vulnerabilities in popular software and devices. The competition in Tokyo on Tuesday and Wednesday focused on mobile devices.
Linux CryptoMiners Are Now Using Rootkits to Stay Hidden
November 9, 2018
As the popularity of cryptocurrency rises, so does the amount of cryptominer Tojans that are being created and distributed to unsuspecting victims. One problem for cryptominers, though, is that the offending process is easily detectable due to their heavy CPU utilization.