Autor: sml75
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Hackers abuse Google Ads to spread malware in legit software
Malware operators have been increasingly abusing the Google Ads platform to spread malware to unsuspecting users searching for popular software products. Among the products impersonated in these campaigns include Grammarly, MSI Afterburner, Slack, Dashlane, Malwarebytes, Audacity, μTorrent, OBS, Ring, AnyDesk, Libre Office, Teamviewer, Thunderbird, and Brave. The threat actors the clone official websites of the above…
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Racial slurs discovered in leaked Yandex source code
Russian tech giant Yandex apologized on Friday for racial slurs uncovered in the company’s source code. The apology came in response to the discovery of multiple references to the N-word in the company’s code base after it leaked online. “We deeply regret that this word ever appeared in our internal codes,” the Yandex press office…
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Your Smart Oven May Be Visiting Websites in China, Russia Every 5 Minutes
The smart oven installed in your kitchen may look innocuous enough, but it could be quietly surfing the internet and visiting websites in China and Russia every few minutes. “As The Register reports, that’s what security-minded software developer Stephan van Rooji discovered when he checked what his own AEG smart oven was using a Wi-Fi…
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TRF-3 proíbe registros de domínios de internet com nome do BNDES por terceiros
Devido ao potencial de indução a erro, a 1ª Turma do Tribunal Regional Federal da 3ª Região proibiu o Núcleo de Informação e Coordenação do Ponto Br (NIC.br) de registrar novos domínios de internet requeridos por terceiros com o nome ou parte do nome do Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES) e de…
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Two Supreme Court Cases That Could Break the Internet
In February, the Supreme Court will hear two cases—Twitter v. Taamneh and Gonzalez v. Google—that could alter how the Internet is regulated, with potentially vast consequences. Both cases concern Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which grants legal immunity to Internet platforms for content posted by users. The plaintiffs in each case argue…
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FBI Covertly Infiltrated Hive Network, Thwarting Over $130 Million in Ransom Demands
The Justice Department announced today its months-long disruption campaign against the Hive ransomware group that has targeted more than 1,500 victims in over 80 countries around the world, including hospitals, school districts, financial firms, and critical infrastructure. “Since late July 2022, the FBI has penetrated Hive’s computer networks, captured its decryption keys, and offered them…
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New Backdoor Created Using Leaked CIA’s Hive Malware Discovered in the Wild
Da Hacker News: Unidentified threat actors have deployed a new backdoor that borrows its features from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)’s Hive multi-platform malware suite, the source code of which was released by WikiLeaks in November 2017. “This is the first time we caught a variant of the CIA Hive attack kit in the…