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Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

Krebs on Security

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. The messages said recipients had earned an investment credit at a cryptocurrency trading platform called moonxtrade[.]com. “On Twitter, more spam and crypto scam.”

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Torii botnet, probably the most sophisticated IoT botnet of ever

Security Affairs

Avast spotted a new IoT botnet, tracked as Torii, that appears much more sophisticated and stealth of the numerous Mirai variants previously analyzed. Security researchers spotted a new IoT botnet, tracked as Torii, that appears much more sophisticated and stealth of the numerous Mirai variants previously analyzed. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Critical Apache Struts flaw CVE-2018-11776 exploited in attacks in the wild

Security Affairs

According to the threat intelligence firm Volexity, the CVE-2018-11776 vulnerability is already being abused in malicious attacks in the wild. Just yesterday I wrote about the availability online of the exploit code for the recently discovered Critical remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2018-11776 in Apache Struts 2.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 189 – News of the week

Security Affairs

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 181 – News of the week

Security Affairs

New XBash malware combines features from ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, botnets, and worms. Evolution of threat landscape for IoT devices – H1 2018. Adobe issued a critical out-of-band patch to address CVE-2018-12848 Acrobat flaw. Magecart cybercrime group stole customers credit cards from Newegg electronics retailer.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 174 – News of the week

Security Affairs

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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

For access to the decryption key, the victim must make prompt payment, often in cryptocurrency shielding the attacker’s identity. The Ryuk ransomware family spawned in 2018 from a sophisticated Russia-based cybercrime group. Attackers will inform the victim that their data is encrypted.