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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • May 30th, 2016
FrameworkPoS Malware Returns with New Attacks on SMBs in Chicago, Hawaii

FrameworkPoS Malware Returns with New Attacks on SMBs in Chicago, Hawaii

Clues reveal campaign has been active since mid-2015

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • May 30th, 2016
CryptoWall, Locky, and Cerber Are Today's Top 3 Ransomware Threats

CryptoWall, Locky, and Cerber Are Today's Top 3 Ransomware Threats

Cerber replaces TeslaCrypt, after TeslaCrypt shuts down

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • May 27th, 2016
Fiverr Suffers Six-Hour DDoS Attack After Removing DDoS-for-Hire Listings

Fiverr Suffers Six-Hour DDoS Attack After Removing DDoS-for-Hire Listings

Crooks give Fiverr a piece of their mind

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • May 25th, 2016
Fiverr Removes DDoS-for-Hire Services from Its Marketplace

Fiverr Removes DDoS-for-Hire Services from Its Marketplace

Scumbags were renting DDoS botnets through Fiverr

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • May 23rd, 2016
OpenCart, osCommerce Store Owners Should Watch Out for Credit Card Stealers

OpenCart, osCommerce Store Owners Should Watch Out for Credit Card Stealers

OpenCart & osCommerce store owners should be on the lookout

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • May 22nd, 2016
Nine Days Later, Flash Zero-Day CVE-2016-4117 Already Added to Exploit Kits

Nine Days Later, Flash Zero-Day CVE-2016-4117 Already Added to Exploit Kits

CVE-2016-4117 spotted in Magnitude exploit kit attacks

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • May 20th, 2016
Student Hacks Teacher's Email, Sends Inappropriate Messages

Student Hacks Teacher's Email, Sends Inappropriate Messages

School IT staff stop and catch the culprit after 2 messages

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • May 19th, 2016
Learn to Hack from Phineas Fisher, the Man Who Pwned the Hacking Team

Learn to Hack from Phineas Fisher, the Man Who Pwned the Hacking Team

Hacker demos hacking skills on Catalan police union website

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • May 19th, 2016
Top Passwords from the LinkedIn Data Breach

Top Passwords from the LinkedIn Data Breach

The 117 million LinkedIn passwords have been cracked

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • May 17th, 2016
Google Drops SSLv3 and RC4 Support in Gmail

Google Drops SSLv3 and RC4 Support in Gmail

Google sets deadline for next month on June 16, 2016

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • May 17th, 2016
Anonymous Attacks North Carolina Websites over Controversial Anti-LGBT Law

Anonymous Attacks North Carolina Websites over Controversial Anti-LGBT Law

Hacktivism group launches Operation LGBT

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • May 17th, 2016
Locky Ransomware Distribution Network Hacked to Show Warning Message Instead

Locky Ransomware Distribution Network Hacked to Show Warning Message Instead

Hacking malware botnets is becoming a common occurance

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • May 12th, 2016
Adobe Releases Flash Player 21.0.0.242 to Fix Zero-Day Exploit

Adobe Releases Flash Player 21.0.0.242 to Fix Zero-Day Exploit

Zero-day discovered by FireEye researchers allows RCE

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • May 12th, 2016
Anonymous Goes After Denver Mayor Because of His Treatment of the Homeless

Anonymous Goes After Denver Mayor Because of His Treatment of the Homeless

Hackers resurface 2011 Denver Players Club scandal

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • May 11th, 2016
US Congress Staff Bans Yahoo Mail After Service Fails to Flag Ransomware Attacks

US Congress Staff Bans Yahoo Mail After Service Fails to Flag Ransomware Attacks

Yahoo Mail banned for House of Representatives members

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • May 10th, 2016
Emergency Patch Coming to Fix Adobe Flash Zero-Day Used in Live Attacks

Emergency Patch Coming to Fix Adobe Flash Zero-Day Used in Live Attacks

Adobe Flash Player security update scheduled for May 12

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • May 10th, 2016
Entire Panama Papers Database Is Now Available Online

Entire Panama Papers Database Is Now Available Online

ICIJ opens up the data it received from its source

 
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