400 Android and iOS Apps Stealing User Log-in Credentials Have Been Detected by Facebook

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On Friday, Meta Platforms announced that it had discovered over 400 malicious apps on Android and iOS that it claimed were aimed at online users in order to steal their Facebook login credentials. According to a study provided with The Hacker News by the social media giant, “These programs were placed on the Google Play […]

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$100 Million in Cryptocurrency Gets Stolen by Hackers from Binance Bridge

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An exploit on a cross-chain bridge that stole about $100 million in digital assets was discovered by BNB Chain, a blockchain connected to the Binance cryptocurrency exchange. BSC Token Hub, a native cross-chain bridge connecting BNB Beacon Chain (BEP2) and BNB Smart Chain (BEP20 or BSC), was impacted by an exploit, it was reported last

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Ex-NSA Systems Security Engineer Detained for Attempting To Sell Secret Data to Foreign Government

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A former employee of the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States has been detained on suspicion of attempting to sell sensitive information to a foreign agent who was actually a Federal Bureau of Investigation undercover agent (FBI). From June 6 to July 1, 2022, Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 30, worked for the NSA for

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Nigerian BEC Scammer Sentenced To 25-Year Prison Term in the United States

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A 46-year-old man was found guilty of laundering more than $9.5 million amassed via the commission of financial fraud that was enabled by the internet and received a 25-year prison sentence as a result. Elvis Eghosa Ogiekpolor, of Norcross, Georgia, ran a money-laundering network that set up at least 50 corporate bank accounts to swindle

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Popular YouTube Channel Caught Sharing Fake Tor Browser Installer

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A trojanized Windows installer for the Tor Browser is being distributed through a well-known Chinese-language YouTube channel. The campaign, OnionPoison, was named by Kaspersky, and all of the victims were in China. The scope of the attack is yet unknown, but the Russian cybersecurity firm reported that in March 2022, victims began to show up

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Hackers Using PowerPoint Mouseover Trick to Infect System with Malware

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A new code execution technique has been discovered to be used by the state-sponsored threat actor APT28 from Russia to spread malware. This technique takes use of mouse movement in phoney Microsoft PowerPoint slides. According to cybersecurity company Cluster25, the method “is meant to be activated when the user starts the presentation mode and moves

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Critical WhatsApp Bugs Might Have Allowed Hackers Take Over Devices Remotely

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Two vulnerabilities in WhatsApp’s messaging software for Android and iOS that might allow remote code execution on weak devices have been fixed with security updates. One of these involves WhatsApp’s serious integer overflow vulnerability CVE-2022-36934 (CVSS score: 9.8), which allows arbitrary code to be executed only by starting a video conversation. Prior to version 2.22.16.12,

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17-Year-Old Hacker Arrested in London On Suspicions of Uber and GTA 6 Attack

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On Friday, the City of London Police announced that a 17-year-old Oxfordshire kid had been detained on suspicion of hacking. The City of London Police detained a 17-year-old in Oxfordshire on the evening of September 22, 2022, according to the report, which added that “he is still in police custody.” According to the department, the

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Crypto Trading Firm Wintermute Loses $160 Million in Hacking Incident

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Hackers have taken digital assets worth over $160 million from cryptocurrency trading company Wintermute in the latest crypto crime to attack the decentralised finance (DeFi) sector. Unauthorized transfers of USD Coin, Binance USD, Tether USD, Wrapped ETH, and 66 other cryptocurrencies to the attacker’s wallet were part of the hack. The business claimed that the

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Over 280,000 WordPress Sites Attacked Using WPGateway Plugin Zero-Day Vulnerability

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WPGateway, a premium WordPress plugin, has a zero-day vulnerability that is already being aggressively abused in the wild, giving bad actors the capability to entirely take over vulnerable websites. According to WordPress security firm Wordfence, the vulnerability, identified as CVE-2022-3180 (CVSS score: 9.8), is being exploited to install a malicious administrator user to websites using

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