Intel Confirms Its Much-Loathed ME Feature Has A Kill Switch
A previously undocumented kill switch for a remote management feature baked into many Intel chips can be switched off.
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Volkswagen Cars Open To Remote Hacking, Researchers Warn
Vulnerable in-vehicle infotainment systems have left some Volkswagen cars open to remote hacking, researchers warn.
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ShadowBrokers Planning Monthly Exploit, Data Dump Service
The latest rant from the ShadowBrokers ends with news of a subscription service starting in June that will leak exploits and stolen data to paying customers.
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Malvertising Campaigns Skirt Ad Blockers, Serve Up Mac Malware
The RIG exploit kit and Safari redirects are both in the adversaries' bag of tricks.
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Black Friday alert
Banking Trojans traditionally target users of online financial services; looking for financial data to steal or building botnets out of hacked devices for future attacks. However, over time, several of these...
Cisco Warns of Three Critical Bugs in Digital Network Architecture Platform
The company urges customers to patch three vulnerabilities that received the highest severity rating of 10.
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Roaming Mantis, part IV
One year has passed since we published the first blogpost about the Roaming Mantis campaign on securelist.com, and this February we detected new activities by the group. This blogpost is follow...
Hackers Take Aim at SSH Keys in New Attacks
SSH private keys are being targeted by hackers who have stepped up the scanning of thousands of WordPress website in search of private keys.
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Google Play Boots Three Malicious Apps From Marketplace Tied to APTs
Researchers said three apps used to surveil Middle East targets were booted from the Google Play marketplace.
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Google Chrome Bugs Open Browsers to Attack
Google's new release of Chrome 85.0.4183.121 for Windows, Mac, and Linux fixes 10 security flaws.
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