Cyber Attack on Bank of Valletta Suspends Entire Operations

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Hackers breached Maltese Bank of Valletta and it had immediately suspended entire operations temporarily to minimize threat causes and evaluated its systems. The bank shut down its branches all over the island, moreover the ATM services, internet and mobile banking were disabled. They warned their customers to prevent using Bank of Valletta cards for payments purposes in any online stores, restaurants, or hotels etc.

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Snapd Vulnerability Lets Root Access To Attackers on Linux

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A flaw impacting Snapd, which is already installed in Ubuntu by default and employed by another Linux distributions likely OpenSUSE, Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux and Solus which may permit a local hacker to acquire administrator benefits, likely total control of the system and root access.

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Unidentified Hackers Wiped US Servers and Backups of VFEmail

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Anonymous hackers have breached the US servers and backups of VFEmail and have completely wiped the disks, as per confirmation of the the email provider.

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Microsoft Fixes Over Seventy Flaws Including IE Zero-Day

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Microsoft fixes more than seventy flaws comprising of an Internet Explorer vulnerability that Google analysts have detected being exploited in threats. The zero-day flaw is trailed as CVE-2019-0676 and it has been narrated by Microsoft as an information revelation issue that presents due to the procedure Internet Explorer manages objects in memory.

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Different Open Source Container Systems Affected

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A security flaw that impacts various open source container management systems, containing Amazon Elastic Container Service and Amazon Linux, has been revealed by AWS.

Security analyst, Adam Iwaniuk identified the flaws reportedly, Aleksa Sarai and Borys Poplawski would permit an actor along with very less user action to “overwrite the host runc binary and thus gain root-level code execution on the host.”

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Adobe Reader Zero-Day Flaw Was Fixed Temporarily

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The Adobe Reader DC Zero-day vulnerability could permit bad attackers to snatch NTLM hashes of victim. Thus, a temporary fix has been announced to state a zero-day flaw in Adobe Reader that could alter bad attackers to sneak hashed password values of victim, recognized as “NTLM hashes.”

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Google Announces New Tools To Secure User Accounts

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Google is coming up with two new tools to support the users to identify if their username and password of accounts have been compromised to tally with Safer Internet Day. The Google research was announced to present that many individuals still use passwords again. The new tools are created to increase recognition of account issues.

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New macOS Mojave Zero-Day Permits Thievery of User Passwords

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An analyst has revealed the presence of a zero-day flaw in macOS Mojave that can be employed by malware to rob plaintext user passwords from Keychain of the operating system. The vulnerability has not been documented to Apple, however its complete information have not been circulated publicly.

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Remote Desktop Protocol Servers Can Access User Devices

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About more than 24 flaws have been identified by security analysts in famous executions of the Remote Desktop Protocol, comprising of vulnerabilities that permit a harmful RDP server to cyber attack a device functioning the user RDP software.

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Severe Code Execution Vulnerability Discovered in OpenOffice

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An analyst has detected a severe distant code execution flaw impacting the open-source productivity suites likely Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice, however a fix has merely been announced for the former.

Researcher named Alex Inführ identified that a harmful attacker could employ particularly crafted documents to implement absolute code without any alerting message being observed by the sufferer. The entire targeted user requires to perform is open a harmful ODT file and take the mouse anyplace over the document.

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