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Security Affairs newsletter Round 232

Security Affairs

France and Germany will block Facebooks Libra cryptocurrency. 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 -->. Astaroth Trojan leverages Facebook and YouTube to avoid detection. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT threat evolution Q1 2021. Non-mobile statistics

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For now, we can tentatively assume that the growth in cryptocurrency prices, in particular bitcoin, has attracted the attention of cybercriminals and returned miners to their toolkit. Updated adware for the new Macs also immediately appeared, in particular the Pirrit family (whose members placed high in our Top 20 threats for macOS).

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 179 – News of the week

Security Affairs

is out, whats new? . · USB Drives shipped with Schneider Solar Products were infected with malware. · Apple removed the popular app Adware Doctor because steals user browsing history. · Privacy-oriented Linux OS Tails 3.9 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. 20% discount.

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Malware-infected printer delivered something extra to Windows users

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steals cryptocurrency from victims’ machines. It replaces cryptocurrency addresses in the clipboard with the attacker’s own, which has already received around $100,000 in presumably ill-gotten funds. Lenovo did an about-face and began calling Superfish a vulnerability, but only after shipping the adware on thousands of PCs.

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