Security experts at Trend Micro have observed an evolving cyberespionage campaign named Blackgear that abuses social media for command and control communications. Blackgear dates back to 2008 and previously targets mainly public sector agencies, telecom and high tech industries in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
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An attacker has used an open-source mobile device management (MDM) system to target iPhones in India.
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Trend Micro recently gathered and published new vulnerability scan data on Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as home routers and Wi-Fi devices that could be vulnerable to malware threats such as VPNFilter.
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Microsoft issued July 2018 Security Updates that include 54 unique vulnerability fixes, 17 of them rated critical.
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Apple has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products to include iOS 11.4.1, macOS High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan, Safari and others. An attacker could exploit unpatched vulnerabilities to take over a victim’s system.
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Apple has released a Wi-Fi security update for Boot Camp 6.4.0.
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A new version of Rakhni Trojan has added a cryptocurrency mining capability to its feature-set. A new cyber campaign discovered by Kaspersky researchers uses a downloader to either install a cryptor or miner on victim computers.
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Gentoo provided a new security update that describes the impact and root cause of its recent GitHub Linux distribution repository hacking incident.
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Cisco’s Talos security team spotted new version and malicious activity of Smoke Loader, a malicious app used to load other malware.
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A new macOS malware, dubbed OSX.Dummy, has been targeting cryptocurrency investors via both Slack and Discord chat apps. The malware was first spotted by security researcher, Remco Verhoef, who posted details of his findings on the SANS InfoSec Handlers Diary Blog on Friday.
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