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By Deeba Ahmed Avast Hit with $16.5 Million Fine, Settles with FTC Over Deceptive Data Practices, Forced to Delete User Information This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Avast Fined Millions for Selling User Browsing Data
Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a spike in email phishing campaigns that are weaponizing the Google Cloud Run service to deliver various banking trojans such as Astaroth (aka Guildma), Mekotio, and Ousaban (aka Javali) to targets across Latin America (LATAM) and Europe. "The infection chains associated with these malware families feature the use of malicious
By Deeba Ahmed In 2024, over 60 countries worldwide are holding elections. The most significant threat to the integrity of these elections? Deepfake videos, readily accessible on the dark web and Telegram, with prices ranging from as low as $2 to $100. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Deepfake Threat: $2 Deceptive Content Undermines Election Integrity
### Impact An attacker able to submit many ciphertexts against a single private key, and to get responses in real-time, could recover the private key. This vulnerability has been named KyberSlash. CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N/E:F/RL:O/RC:C ### Patches Version 0.0.6.1 and newer of PyPQC is patched. ### Workarounds No workarounds have been reported. The 0.0.6 -> 0.0.6.1 upgrade should be a drop-in replacement; it has no known breaking changes. ### References 1. This was partially patched ("KyberSlash 1") in the reference implementation by Peter Schwabe on December 1st, 2023. https://www.github.com/pq-crystals/kyber/commit/dda29cc63af721981ee2c831cf00822e69be3220 2. This was reported as a security vulnerability by Daniel J. Bernstein on December 15th, 2023. https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/pqc-forum/c/hWqFJCucuj4/m/-Z-jm_k9AAAJ 3. A webpage was stood up for authoritative reference about this by Daniel J. Bernstein on December 19th, 2023. htt...
The US Congress was preparing to vote on a key foreign surveillance program last week. Then a wild Russian threat appeared.
Fake news, disinformation, misinformation – whatever label you want to put on it – will not just go away if one election in the U.S. goes one way or the other.
By Waqas Another day, another Apple Security Vulnerability! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Apple Shortcuts Vulnerability Exposes Sensitive Data, Update Now!
Ubuntu Security Notice 6648-1 - It was discovered that a race condition existed in the AppleTalk networking subsystem of the Linux kernel, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. Zhenghan Wang discovered that the generic ID allocator implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly check for null bitmap when releasing IDs. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service.
By Uzair Amir Meet Curium by Bluzelle, a new Miner Pool app. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Bluzelle’s Curium App Makes Crypto Earning Effortless
Cisco Talos, in cooperation with CERT.NGO, has discovered new malicious components used by the Turla APT. New findings from Talos illustrate the inner workings of the command and control (C2) scripts deployed on the compromised WordPress servers utilized in the compromise we previously disclosed.