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Even Highly Skilled Cyber-Thieves Make Stupid Mistakes !![source: bleepingcomputer]

Cobalt, a highly-skilled group of hackers who target banks and financial institutions, may have committed a mistake and accidentally leaked a list of all their current targets, according to Yonathan Klijnsma, a security researcher with RiskIQ. The error occurred in a spear-phishing campaign that took place last week, on November 21. Group accidentally exposes a list of targets Klijnsma says the group sent out a...

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“Huge Dirty COW” (CVE-2017–1000405) [source: medium]

The “Dirty COW” vulnerability (CVE-2016–5195) is one of the most hyped and branded vulnerabilities published. Every Linux version from the last decade, including Android, desktops and servers was vulnerable. The impact was vast — millions of users could be compromised easily and reliably, bypassing common exploit defenses. Plenty of information was published about the vulnerability, but its patch was not analyzed in detail. We at Bindecy were...

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‘McAfee Labs 2018 Threats Predictions Report’ Previews 5 Cybersecurity Trends[source:mcafee]

Welcome to the McAfee Labs 2018 Threats Predictions Report. We find ourselves in a highly volatile stage of cybersecurity, with new devices, new risks, and new threats appearing every day. In this edition, we have polled thought leaders from McAfee Labs and the Office of the CTO. They offer their views on a wide range of threats, including machine learning, ransomware, serverless apps, and privacy...

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Unix mailer Exim is affected by RCE, DoS vulnerabilities [source: securityaffairs]

The Exim Internet mail message transfer agent warned of flaws through the public bug tracker, sys admins have to apply the workaround asap. Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet, it is the most popular MTA on the Internet. The Internet mail message transfer agent warned of flaws through the public bug tracker, an unfortunate choice...

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systemd Vulnerability Leads to Denial of Service on Linux [source: trendmicro]

Many Linux distributions are at risk due to a recently disclosed flaw in systemd: a flaw in its DNS resolver could cause a denial-of-service attack on vulnerable systems. The vulnerability is exploited by having the vulnerable system send a DNS query to a DNS server controlled by the attackers. The DNS server would then return a specially crafted query, causing systemd to enter an infinite loop that pins...

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