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Beware !! These 22 Malware Apps in Playstore Drained Your Battery & Steal Personal Data – 2M Users Infected
22 malicious Android apps that uploaded in Google playstore with Sophisticated click fraud functionality affected around 2 million Android …
How can businesses get the most out of pentesting?
The goal of pentesting is to uncover issues that the organization is unaware of. So, to get the most out of the process, the organization …
Security 2019 Predictions (Part 5)
Given the speed with which technology is evolving, we thought it would be interesting to ask IT executives about their predictions for …
Android adware tricks ad networks into thinking it’s an iPhone to make more money
Google has recently removed 22 Android apps from the Play Store. The apps were removed for abusing Android devices to load and click on ads …
What’s actually in Australia’s encryption laws? Everything you need to know
Labor caved in last Thursday. Despite spending hours telling Parliament why the Assistance and Access Bill was dangerous garbage, and …
ACCC goes after Google, Facebook in the name of fake news and data transparency
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has put its spotlight on Google and Facebook, determining that the substantial …
A Photographer’s Pursuit of Vulnerability and Expression
Photographer Lenghi Teng has a lot of influences to inspire her art: she was born in Vietnam, grew up in a Chinese family, and moved to the …
DanaBot Banking Trojan Evolves Again – Steals Email Address From Victim’s Mailbox
DanaBot Banking Trojan came out with new features which harvest email addresses from the victim’s mailbox and send out spam emails. This …
5G Security Transparency
There is considerable rhetoric propagated today about 5G security. Some of the more blatant assertions border on xenophobia with vague …
Australia’s encryption laws are a cyber cane toad: Husic
Labor has continued its campaign of defending how Australia’s encryption laws came to be, despite acknowledging concerns with the …
Labor slams Commonwealth’s visa privatisation plan
The federal opposition has slammed the federal government’s plan to privatise Australia’s visa processing system, labelling it a concern to …
Penetration Testing with Windows Computer & Bypassing an Antivirus Using VEIL-Framework in Kali Linux
Pentesters have a hard time bypassing anti-viruses nowadays Since Antiviruses are evolving as we speak. We at www.gbhackers.com decided …
Week in review: CAPTCHA-breaking AI, Australian anti-encryption bill, new issue of (IN)SECURE
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Old and new OpenSSH backdoors threaten Linux servers …
Security News This Week: Did Quora Get Hacked? Top Answer: Yes
Nearly a month after the midterm elections, details on a hack of the Republican National Congressional Committee reveals that meddling in …
Cybercrime and malware, 2019 predictions
“The concept of in-browser mining was almost shattered overnight by ill-intended threat actors taking advantage of Coinhive and other …
Filter Bubble – DuckDuckGo Says Chrome Incognito Mode Does not Provide Anonymity
The new report from DuckDuckGo says Google manipulating the search results based on the user personal data and moves the links up and down …
UK Teen Got 3 Years Jailed for Bomb Threats Against 1,700 Schools, Aircraft With 295 Passengers & DDoS Attacks
A hoaxer from United Kingdom got arrested and sentenced 3 years in prison for bomb threat across UK schools, colleges, universities, …
66 Million Users Personal Data Exposed From Unprotected MongoDB Database
Newly discovered unprotected MongoDB database exposed around 66 Million users records with different chapters and collection of data that …
Weekly Crypto Round Up: Latest News on Cryptocurrencies & the Dark Web | Week 49 – 2018
Major cryptocurrencies remain in the red as the market experienced another poor week. At press time the total market cap is $123 billion, a …
Darknet Cybercriminals Capitalize on Black Friday
“Black Friday,” or the day after Thanksgiving, has become an international consumer phenomenon, where buyers all around the world …
66 Million Users Personal Data Exposed From Unprotected MongoDB
Newly discovered unprotected MongoDB database exposed around 66 Million users records with different chapters and collection of data that …
Malicious sites abuse 11-year-old Firefox bug that Mozilla failed to fix
Malware authors, ad farmers, and scammers are abusing a Firefox bug to trap users on malicious sites. This wouldn’t be a big deal, as the …
Huawei CFO Faces Multiple 30 Years Prison Sentences For Fraud And Violating US Sanctions In Iran
After being arrested on Saturday, Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou is still awaiting extradition to the United States. At the time no formal charges …
22 malware infected apps on Play Store found draining phone’s battery
These Android apps disguised themselves as legitimate software and in some cases even offered some functionality. The most popular of these …
The EWF Announces the 2018 Women of Influence Award Recipients and Corporate Award
The Executive Women’s Forum on Information Security, Risk Management, and Privacy (EWF) announced the 2018 Women of Influence Award …
‘PowerSnitch’ Hacks Androids via Power Banks
BLACK HAT EUROPE – London – A £17 Android hacking tool creates a covert communications channel in the power current generated while …
Quora Hacked, Moscow Ransomware, and More Security News This Week
month after the midterm elections, details on a hack of the Republican National Congressional Committee reveals that meddling in the …
Security tip for this holiday season: Uninstall Flash
During the holiday season, users can do themselves a big favor by ditching Adobe Flash, a software notorious for its frequent security …
Bethesda blunders, IRS sounds the alarm, China ransomware, and more
Roundup This week, we saw Linux get pwned, a teen hacker go down, and Julian Assange vowing to stay right where he is. But that wasn’t the …
Those annoying sextortion scams are redirecting users to ransomware now
This past week, users in the United States have been bombarded by an email spam campaign that pushed a double-whammy of a sextortion …
Hackers Connecting Malicious Devices to Corporate Network by Pretending as a Courier, Job Seeker, etc.
Hackers leave malicious devices connected to organization corporate network and through the device, they explore IT infrastructure, …
Bomb Threat Hoaxer, DDos Boss Gets 3 Years
The ringleader of a gang of cyber hooligans that made bomb threats against hundreds of schools and launched distributed denial-of-service …
Manafort and Cohen Sentencing Documents Put Donald Trump in Spotlight
into the worst case scenarios. But as new sentencing memos for Trump associates Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen make all too clear, the …
TSA’s Roadmap for Airport Surveillance Moves in a Dangerous Direction
The Transportation Security Administration has set out an alarming vision of pervasive biometric surveillance at airports, which cuts …
Enterprise hits and misses – Marriott stinks, Quora is questionable, and the omni-channel is elusive
Lead story – Lands End and Hudson’s Bay grapple with the omni-channel – retail analysis by Stuart Lauchlan MyPOV: Stuart’s got …
In case you’re not already sick of Spectre… Boffins demo Speculator tool for sniffing out data-leaking CPU holes
Analysis You’ve patched your Intel, AMD, Power, and Arm gear to crush those pesky data-leaking speculative execution processor bugs, right? …