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Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service

Krebs on Security

Launched in 2013, Microleaves is a service that allows customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe. Microleaves works by changing each customer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address every five to ten minutes. The same account continues to sell subscriptions to Shifter.io.

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Scranos – A Cross Platform, Rootkit-Enabled Spyware rapidly spreading

Security Affairs

Although the campaign has not reached the magnitude of the Zacinlo adware campaign, it is already infecting users worldwide.” The main dropper is able to steal browser cookies and login credentials from Google Chrome, Chromium, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Baidu Browser and Yandex.

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OSX/Linker, a new piece of Mac malware that exploits Gatekeeper bypass

Security Affairs

Researchers speculate the Linker malware has the same authors of the OSX/Surfbuyer adware. In late May, security researcher Filippo Cavallarin disclosed a bug in Gatekeeper that would allow a malicious binary downloaded from the Internet to bypass the Gatekeeper scanning process. ” reads the analysis published by Intego.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 232

Security Affairs

A bug in Instagram exposed user accounts and phone numbers. Crooks hacked other celebrity Instagram accounts to push scams. Two selfie Android adware apps with 1.5M+ downloads removed from Play Store. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Once again thank you! Pierluigi Paganini.

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Cyber Threats to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

Digital Shadows

For instance, financially-motivated threat actors often plant in malicious URLs spoofing these events to fraudulent sites, hoping to maximize their chances of scamming naive internet users for a quick (illicit) profit. Nowadays, such pages are necessary to build a brand, generate new business, and resolve customer issues.