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Stalkerware Installations Up 60% in 2019

Adam Levin

The number of stalkerware apps detected on smartphones increased in 2019, a full 60% over the previous year according to a new report released by Kaspersky Labs. . This is thought to be the way Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos was hacked in 2019. The post Stalkerware Installations Up 60% in 2019 appeared first on Adam Levin.

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GetMonero Site has been hacked by an unknown hacker

SecureBlitz

Unfortunately, GetMonero site has been hacked. The popular cryptocurrency Monero faced a security breach in November 2019, raising concerns for users who downloaded the Command Line Interface (CLI) wallet software during a specific timeframe.

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Latest on the SVR’s SolarWinds Hack

Schneier on Security

The New York Times has an in-depth article on the latest information about the SolarWinds hack (not a great name, since it’s much more far-reaching than that). There is also no indication yet that any human intelligence alerted the United States to the hacking. The October files, distributed to customers on Oct.

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Thousands of Hacked Disney+ Accounts now Sold Online

SecureBlitz

Social media platforms and online forums are full of lamentations by Disney+ users’ complaints about their hacked Disney accounts. The highly anticipated launch of Disney+ in November 2019 wasn't without its hiccups.

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Pwn2Own 2019 Day 3: Experts hacked Tesla 3 browser

Security Affairs

Pwn2Own 2019 Day 3 – Experts earned $35,000 and a Tesla Model 3 after hacking the vehicle’s web browser. Pwn2Own 2019 Day 3 – Hackers focused their efforts on car hacking, two teams participated in the competitions but only one of them reached the goal. SecurityAffairs – Pwn2Own 2019, hacking).

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UAE Hack and Leak Operations

Schneier on Security

Interesting paper on recent hack-and-leak operations attributed to the UAE: Abstract: Four hack-and-leak operations in U.S. Although "hacking" tools enable easy access to secret information, they are a double-edged sword, as their discovery means the scandal becomes about the hack itself, not about the hacked information.

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Patch Tuesday, December 2019 Edition

Krebs on Security

By nearly all accounts, the chief bugaboo this month is CVE-2019-1458 , a vulnerability in a core Windows component (Win32k) that is present in Windows 7 through 10 and Windows Server 2008-2019. ’ An odd discrepancy on top of a CVE advisory for an outdated OS. It is very likely this is being exploited in the wild.”

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