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Researchers say Notorious Malware May Have Been Starting Point for Cyber …
Dark Reading … recent years. According to researchers from Kaspersky Lab, Agent.btz may have some cousins circulating the Internet, namely the recently-revealed 'Turla' malware – also known as 'Snake' – as well as the infamous Flame, Gauss and Red October malware. |
Let’s assume you know nothing about a person except for that during a three-week period, that person called “a home improvement store, locksmiths, a hydroponics dealer, and a head shop.” While you still don’t know that person, you certainly have insight into their private life that might allow you to infer a certain scenario. All of that sensitive information came from phone metadata surveillance….
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Tor, The Onion Router that helps protect users’ privacy, just can’t catch a break lately. First Microsoft remotely deleted Tor from Windows machines during an attempt to takedown the Sefnit botnet. Then the research paper, Spoiled Onions: Exposing Malicious Tor Exit Relays [pdf], explained how evil nodes in Russia were being used to spy on Facebook users as well as Tor users browsing other sites. Microsoft…
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Large botnet traced back to hacked refrigerator by cyber-security researchers
NDTV Computer security researchers said this week they discovered a large "botnet" which infected Internet-connected home appliances and then delivered more than 750,000 malicious emails. The California security firm Proofpoint, Inc., which announced its … Not Cool: 'Smart' Fridge Takes Part in Spam Cyberattack Refrigerator among devices hacked in Internet of things cyber attack |