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Krebs on Security
MARCH 31, 2019
For the second year in a row, denizens of a large German-language online forum have donated more than USD $250,000 to cancer research organizations in protest of a story KrebsOnSecurity published in 2018 that unmasked the creators of Coinhive , a now-defunct cryptocurrency mining service that was massively abused by cybercriminals.
Malwarebytes
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
The suit contains arguments that Facebook’s now-defunct photo-tagging feature illegally collected data about Texan people’s faces, including those who are non-Facebook users but were tagged by someone who is, without asking for consent. Paxton filed the lawsuit on Monday in the state’s Harrison County District Court.
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Security Affairs
MARCH 20, 2022
Google’s TAG team revealed that China-linked APT groups are targeting Ukraine ’s government for intelligence purposes. March 18 – node-ipc NPM Package sabotage to protest Ukraine invasion. The developer behind the popular “node-ipc” NPM package uploaded a destructive version to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Malwarebytes
JUNE 29, 2022
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has revealed a sophisticated spyware activity involving ISPs (internet service providers) aiding in downloading powerful commercial spyware onto users’ mobile devices. The spyware, dubbed Hermit, is reported to have government clients much like Pegasus. Italian vendor RCS Labs developed Hermit.
Security Affairs
JULY 29, 2019
For lower level users, WordPress does not sanitize them for usage as HTML tag attributes. The code in the last line shows output as HTML tag attributes that are not being escaped. To protest against the moderators of the WordPress Support Forum’s, the experts decided to disclose the flaw and to share the proof-of-concept code.
The Security Ledger
DECEMBER 11, 2018
In this week’s podcast (#124): we speak with French security researcher Baptiste Robert about research on the social media accounts pushing the french "Yellow Vest" protests. Part 1: the Twitter bots pumping up French Protests? Now similar protests have popped up in Belgium and other neighboring countries. What is fueling them?
Adam Levin
JULY 2, 2018
During the Dakota Access Pipeline stand-off, Morton County public information issued a release alleging that protesters doxed a Bismarck Police officer, releasing his date of birth and home address. Bottom line: You should act like the bad guys are out to get you, because they are.
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