Ionut Ilascu
Author Bio
Ionut Ilascu is a technology writer with a focus on all things cybersecurity. The topics he writes about include malware, vulnerabilities, exploits and security defenses, as well as research and innovation in information security. His work has been published by Bitdefender, Netgear, The Security Ledger and Softpedia.
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Cold-Boot Attack Steals Passwords In Under Two Minutes
Relying on computer memory's remanence behavior, security researchers figured out a way to extract sensitive data from RAM, such as encryption keys, even after the loss of power.
- September 13, 2018
- 08:19 PM
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Malicious Kodi Add-ons Install Windows & Linux Coin Mining Trojans
Some unofficial add-ons for Kodi open-source media player come with malware that mines for Monero cryptocurrency on Windows and Linux platforms.
- September 13, 2018
- 09:50 AM
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Files With 42 Million Emails and Passwords Found On Free Hosting Service
A huge database with email addresses, passwords in clear text, and partial credit card data has been uploaded to a free, public hosting service.
- September 13, 2018
- 08:46 AM
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BEC Scammer To Serve Five Years And Pay $2.5 Million
A Nigerian man has been sentenced to five years of prison time and pay $2.54 million in restitution for running business email compromise scams that attempted to steal $25 million.
- September 13, 2018
- 04:45 AM
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Cybercriminals Go Phishing For Jaxx Wallet Users
For at least a week, the Jaxx cryptocurrency wallet website had a fraudulent version that served malicious links to trick users into revealing the backup phrase that protected the virtual funds.
- September 12, 2018
- 10:51 AM
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Crooks Combine Phishing and Impersonation For Higher Success Rate
While phishing continues to be the prevalent threat in malware-less email-based attacks, cybercriminals refine their methods by adding an impersonation component to increase the success rate against company employees.
- September 12, 2018
- 08:25 AM
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Mirai, Gafgyt IoT Botnets Reach To the Enterprise Sector
Mirai and Gafgyt, two of the best known IoT botnets, have forked once again, but the new variants peek at the corporate sector for creating or replenishing their denial-of-service resources for distributed attacks.
- September 11, 2018
- 07:34 PM
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Data Management Firm Exposes 445 Million Records
A database with over 200GB of data was found on a server left defenseless and open to public query, to anyone knowing where to find it.
- September 11, 2018
- 04:35 PM
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Apple's Safari Falls For New Address Bar Spoofing Trick
An unpatched vulnerability in the Safari web browser allows an attacker to control the content displayed in the address bar, a security researcher discovered. The method enables well-crafted phishing attacks that are difficult to spot by the average consumer.
- September 11, 2018
- 10:17 AM
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British Airways Fell Victim To Card Scraping Attack
The recent British Airways data breach affecting 380,000 individuals appears to be the work of a known adversary that infects websites with a script designed to collect payment card data.
- September 11, 2018
- 04:54 AM
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Exploit Affecting Tor Browser Burned In A Tweet
An exploit for a vulnerability in Tor Browser was delivered today in a tweet that left sufficient room for comments. A security vulnerabilities broker disclosed the details because it no longer served its purpose.
- September 10, 2018
- 06:35 PM
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Over 3,700 MikroTik Routers Abused In CryptoJacking Campaigns
Ever since exploit code for CVE-2018-14847 became publicly available, miscreants have launched attacks against MikroTik routers. Thousands of unpatched devices are mining for cryptocurrency at the moment.
- September 10, 2018
- 02:35 PM
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Trend Micro Apps Leak User Data, Removed from Mac App Store
Multiple apps developed by Trend Micro are no longer available in the Mac App Store after researchers showed they were collecting browser history and information about users' computers.
- September 10, 2018
- 10:41 AM
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Keybase Browser Extension Could Allow Sites to See Messages
The browser extension for the Keybase app fails to keep the end-to-end encryption promised by its desktop variant as sites could see the text being types into the chat area.
- September 07, 2018
- 07:56 PM
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Privilege Escalation Bug Found in Popular VPN Clients
Vulnerabilities in NordVPN and ProtonVPN clients allow an attacker to execute code on the affected computer with the rights of an administrator.
- September 07, 2018
- 05:52 PM
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