Researchers from the Masaryk University finally published full paper of the practical cryptographic attack against the implementation of RSA in the widely used trusted platform modules / crypto tokens. 'The Return of Coppersmith’s Attack: Practical Factorization of Widely Used RSA Moduli'
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Interesting research on the possibility of a cheap online surveillance. 'In this work we examine the capability of [..] an individual with a modest budget -- to access the data collected by the advertising ecosystem. Specifically, we find that an individual can use the targeted advertising system to conduct physical and digital surveillance on targets that use smartphone apps with ads.'
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The ZNIU Android malware is exploiting Linux kernel 'Dirty COW' vulnerability to install itself on a device and collect money through the SMS-enabled payment service.
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SfyLabs' researchers discovered a new Android banking Trojan named Red Alert 2.0, that is being offered for rent on many dark websites. It uses Twitter as a fall back mechanism for communication.
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The security researcher Pierre Kim has discovered ten critical zero-day vulnerabilities in D-Link routers.
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The lone Nigerian guy is responsible for an attack against at least 4000 gas, oil, banking, infrastructure organizations using phishing and NetWire trojan for remote access.
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A new version of the Svpeng Android banking trojan is able to record everything users type on their devices. Crazy stuff.
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NSA's XKeyscore spying tool is used to fish Microsoft Windows crash reports out of the Internet traffic. They have used it against the Mexico's Secretariat of Public Security.
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Microsoft has analyzed EnglishmansDentist exploit used against the Exchange 2003 mail servers on the out-dated Windows Server 2003 OS. Exploit was released by ShadowBrokers back in April 2017.
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Porn spam botnet consisting of more than 80,000 automated female Twitter accounts has been prompting millions of clicks from Twitter users to the various affiliate dating schemes (known as 'partnerka').
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