Cyber Security News

European Internet Traffic Rerouted to Chinese ISP
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European Internet Traffic Rerouted to Chinese ISP

On Thursday, June 6, 2019, for approximately two hours a large amount of European Internet traffic was rerouted through the infrastructure of China Telecom, China's third-largest telco and internet service provider (ISP). According to experts, the traffic was rerouted following a BGP route leak at S

How Hackers Profit from Stolen Medical Information
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How Hackers Profit from Stolen Medical Information

It is almost a weekly occurrence that a company announces they have suffered a data breach. Oven the numbers, in the millions, are difficult for us to wrap our heads around. Besides this, the cost to the individual affected by such a breach can be hidden within the sheer scope of these large numbers

BlackSquid Emerges from the Deep
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BlackSquid Emerges from the Deep

When the developers behind Coinhive announced that they would be shutting down the service of allowing websites to mine cryptocurrency rather than advertising, the rise of cryptominers was predicted by some to end. The development of Coinhive opened a Pandora’s Box and drove the abuse and developmen

HiddenWasp Targeting Linux
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HiddenWasp Targeting Linux

Over the years there have been numerous examples of distributed denial of service (DDoS) designed to be executed on Linux machines and servers. With the advent of the Internet of Things, the number of devices available to be controlled by attackers has skyrocketed and along with it numerous versions

Bitcoin Scam Leads to Ransomware Infections
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Bitcoin Scam Leads to Ransomware Infections

According to security researcher going by the pseudonym Frost, a bunch of websites is pushing a download which promises users the ability to earn up to 30 USD in Bitcoin daily. The program, called Bitcoin Collector, is nowhere near what it is advertised to be, rather it is a scam which will infect s

SandboxEscaper Releases Several Windows Vulnerabilities
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SandboxEscaper Releases Several Windows Vulnerabilities

Over the past couple of days, the security researcher who goes by the pseudonym SandboxEscaper has released several Microsoft Windows vulnerabilities to the public with no prior notice given to Microsoft. The researcher has developed a reputation amongst the InfoSec community for releasing vulnerabi

Hacktivism Declines by 95%
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Hacktivism Declines by 95%

According to IBM hacktivist attacks that resulted in quantifiable damage to the victim has declined by 95 percent since 2015. According to the data provided by IBM’s X-Force threat intelligence unit between 2015 and 2019 shows that the number of hacktivist attacks dropped from 35 in 2015 to 24 in 20

Zombieload: New Intel Side-Channel Attack
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Zombieload: New Intel Side-Channel Attack

In January 2018, the InfoSec community was rocked by the news of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities affecting entire generations of Intel processors. As of May 14, 2019, academics announced that they had discovered a new side-channel attack affecting Intel processors. The attack utilizes a set

ScarCruft Introduces Bluetooth Harvester
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ScarCruft Introduces Bluetooth Harvester

According to researchers at Kaspersky Labs a Korean-speaking hacker group called ScarCruft, which is alleged to be a state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) group, has increased its cyber-espionage ability by including a Bluetooth harvesting module within its current arsenal of cyber weapon

$41 Million Stolen from Cryptocurrency Exchange
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$41 Million Stolen from Cryptocurrency Exchange

Those who have invested in Bitcoin have had much to smile about recently. The cryptocurrency rose to 6,000 USD on May 8, this was the first time it had broken this mark since November of last year. Nowhere near the 10,000 USD of yesteryear at the height of cryptocurrency popularity, this is still se