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Credit to Author: Rik Ferguson (VP, Security Research)| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 12:00:29 +0000

The release of our report “Digital Souks: A glimpse into the Middle Eastern and North African underground” marks the 12th in our Cybercriminal Underground Economy Series (CUES). Having previously published several papers covering the Japanese, French, German, North American, Chinese, Russian and Brazilian undergrounds this is the first report of its kind focusing on this…

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BlueBorne – Bluetooth’s airborne influenza

September 29, 2017 admin Android, Armis Labs, blueborne, Bluetooth, cybercrime, Exploits, Mobile, Ubertooth

Credit to Author: Nathan Collier| Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 15:00:11 +0000

Armis Labs has discovered a new attack vector that targets any device that has Bluetooth capability.

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Keychain vulnerability in macOS

September 26, 2017 admin apple, cybercrime, High Sierra, Mac, Mac Cybercrime, MacOS, malware, Patreon

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:11:06 +0000

On Monday, Patrick Wardle, a respected security researcher at Synack and owner of Objective-See, sent a tweet about a keychain vulnerability he had found in macOS High Sierra. As his tweet showed, it is possible for a malicious app to extract, and then exfiltrate, keychain data from High Sierra, with passwords clearly exposed in plain text.

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Don’t let these gaming threats give you a Game Over

September 21, 2017 admin console, cybercrime, emulators, games, Gaming, Mobile, PC, scams, Social engineering, steam, video games

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 20:24:29 +0000

With the first day of the UK’s biggest gaming event, EGX, opening its doors, we decided to roundup the most common gaming threats we see on a daily basis.

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Grading our Predictions: See how we fared in 1H 2017

September 18, 2017 admin cybercrime, ransomware, Security, Underground Economy, Vulnerabilities & Exploits

Credit to Author: Jon Clay| Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 12:00:36 +0000

In December of last year, we released eight predictions as to what we thought the 2017 cybersecurity landscape would hold. Although we’ve definitely observed new trends and attacks that we didn’t foresee, we’ve also seen several of our predictions play out as anticipated. With only three and a half months left in the year, we’re…

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Crowdsourced fraud and kickstarted scams

September 14, 2017 admin 419, Crowdsourcing, cybercrime, donation scam, fraud, GoFundMe, kickstarter, Patreon, SCAM, Social engineering, ToS

Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:00:50 +0000

Crowdsourced funding opportunities via Kickstarter, Patreon, and GoFundMe have removed many structural roadblocks for people to access capital quickly and conveniently. But they’ve also lowered the barrier to entry for many very old scams. So how do you tell the difference between a great cause or project to contribute to and a digital confidence scam? Let us take a look at pitfalls on two crowdfunding platforms.

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