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Financial threats in 2022: financial systems at risk, growing infostealers and more cryptocurrency attacks

During 2022, the cryptocurrency industry will face attacks from state-sponsored groups, while cybercriminals will try to profit from investors by creating rogue wallets with backdoors.

New card-data-stealing malware hides in Nginx processes on Linux servers

E-commerce platforms in the US, Germany and France have been attacked by a new form of malware that targets Nginx servers to hide its presence and evade security solutions.

Hackers deploy Linux malware on e-commerce servers

Security researchers have discovered attackers deploying a Linux backdoor on compromised e-commerce servers after injecting a credit-card skimmer into online shops.

MediaTek chip eavesdropping bugs affect 37% of smartphones and IoT devices worldwide

Multiple security weaknesses have been disclosed in MediaTek system-on-chips (SoCs) that could allow a threat actor to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in audio-processor firmware, potentially enabling a mass eavesdropping campaign without users' knowledge.

11 malicious PyPI Python libraries caught stealing Discord tokens and installing shells

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered as many as 11 malicious Python packages, downloaded more than 41,000 times in total from the Python Package Index (PyPI). They could be used to steal Discord access tokens and passwords, or even stage dependency-confusion attacks.

SQL injection is the leading critical web-application risk in Q3 2021

Edgescan, the full-stack vulnerability-management provider, has released its Q3 Vulnerability Snapshot, a short report describing the current vulnerability landscape based on thousands of assessments conducted worldwide.

Palo Alto warns of a zero-day vulnerability in firewalls using GlobalProtect Portal VPN

WiFi security, WPA3

Today across the globe, wifi routers are more than just its inhabitants. Billions of devices are in operation and they are as vulnerable as you can not imagine. Part of the responsibility lies in the technology itself based on 2004. Even these obsolete routers, with a 16-32-character password, could

1.5 Billion Personal Data Remain Exposed On Open Internet

The revelation that nearly 1.5 billion sensitive people and business records worldwide has been made by researchers, highlighting significant gaps in personal data protection, in addition to the recent Facebook scandal. These are documents where everyone can have free access if they have even minima

GDPR: Brought complaints and fines

The first month of its implementation was accompanied by a sharp increase in the number of complaints to regulators across Europe, which underlines the strong interest in the new rules. Meanwhile, the French Data Protection Authority, CNIL, announced a 50% increase in the number of complaints since

Mac Malware is more common than you think

In a recent post by Malwarebytes, it has come to light that the state of mac malware has radically changed in the past year. It is reported that mac malware exploits saw an increase of over 270 percent between 2016 and 2017, while the average mac user has no effective protection to prevent them from

OpenStack: Cloud edge computing beyond the datacenter

A recent paper of OpenStack Foundation titled: Cloud edge computing: Beyond the datacentre urges the open source cloud community to create a cross-industry coalition in order to facilitate widespread adoption of edge computing. As the paper reads, “Edge computing platform has to be, by design, much