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Russia cyber-plots: Dutch defend decision not to arrest suspects

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Credits: BBC

The Dutch government has defended a decision not to detain four Russians accused of an attempted cyber-attack on the global chemical weapons watchdog in The Hague.

The suspected Russian agents were sent home as it was not a criminal inquiry, Prime […]

By |October 7th, 2018|Cyber News|

Chinese spy chips are found in hardware used by Apple, Amazon, Bloomberg

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Credits: CNBC

Data center equipment run by Amazon Web Services and Apple may have been subject to surveillance from the Chinese government via a tiny microchip inserted during the equipment manufacturing process, according to a Bloomberg BusinessWeek report on Thursday. The claims in the report have been strongly disputed […]

By |October 4th, 2018|Cyber News|

How the Dutch foiled Russian ‘cyber-attack’ on OPCW

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Credits: BBC

The Dutch security services say Russia planned a cyber-attack on the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague earlier this year.

At a press conference on Thursday, Defence Minister Ank Bijleveld said the plan was thwarted with […]

By |October 4th, 2018|Cyber News|

US charges seven Russian spies over cyber-hacking

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Credits: Guardian

The US government has announced criminal charges against seven Russian intelligence officers, declaring a “lengthy and wide-ranging conspiracy” ordered by the Kremlin to hack into private computers and networks around the world that aimed at a wide range of targets.

The announcement […]

By |October 4th, 2018|Cyber News|

North Korea’s APT38 hacking group behind bank heists of over $100 million

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Credits: zdnet

According to a new report published today by US cyber-security firm FireEye, there’s a clear and visible distinction between North Korea’s hacking units –with two groups specialized in political cyber-espionage, and a third focused only in cyber-heists at banks and […]

By |October 3rd, 2018|Cyber News|

Roaming Mantis group is now distributing iOS cryptominers via malicious content delivery systems

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Credits: ABC News

The Roaming Mantis threat group created a fake Apple phishing page, which when visited by victims, infects their iOS devices with a cryptominer.
In previous campaigns, Roaming Mantis deployed a cryptominer that targeted PCs.

The Roaming Mantis threat group […]

By |October 3rd, 2018|Cyber News|

TP-Link router vulnerable to remote takeover flaw

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Credits: scmagazine

TP-Link router model TL-WRN841N has two vulnerabilities, which if exploited could allow it to be taken over and reconfigured by an attacker.

The flaws were discovered by Tenable and another independent researcher, and while they have been reported to TP-Link a patch […]

By |October 3rd, 2018|Cyber News|

New Zealand tells travellers to hand over passwords or pay the price

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Credits: ABC NEWS

Travellers entering New Zealand who refuse to disclose passwords for their digital devices during forced searches could face prosecution and fines of more than $3,000 (A$4180), a move that border officials said Tuesday made the country the first to […]

By |October 3rd, 2018|Cyber News|

765 Million Users Affected by Cyber Attacks in Q2 2018

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Credits: Softpedia

The amount of total cybersecurity incidents is continuing to grow according to a report from Positive Technologies, with a 47% YoY growth when comparing Q2 2017 with Q2 2018.

The information used to draw the conclusions in their report is based […]

By |October 3rd, 2018|Cyber News|

Wikipedia demotes Breitbart to fake news

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Credits: mashable

Wikipedia, the internet’s crowd-sourced encyclopedia, has declared “fake news” on far-right site Breitbart, deeming the outlet asn unreliable source for facts.

The decision, flagged by Motherboard, was declared on September 25, 2018 after an ongoing discussion amongst site administrators that concluded, ” should not […]

By |October 3rd, 2018|Cyber News|