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Ryuk Ransomware Decryptor Vulnerability Leads to Data Loss

By CertX December 10, 2019December 10, 2019
Malware

Owing to fresh changes in the Ryuk Ransomware encryption procedure, a bug in the decryptor is likely to result in data loss in large files. Ryuk is a ransomware infection which targets government or private companies by gaining access to their networks and then encoding a large number of computers. Continue Reading

Facebook Files Lawsuit Against Company For Abusing Platform For Ad Fraud

By CertX December 9, 2019
Cyber Crime

In the wake of its efforts to take legal action against those abusing its social media platform, social media giant Facebook has now accused a Hong Kong-based advertising company and two Chinese individuals of purportedly exploiting its ad platform to dispense malware and Ad fraud. All three defendants have been Continue Reading

Linux Vulnerability Lets Attackers Hijack VPN Connections

By CertX December 6, 2019
Vulnerability Alerts

Security researcher William J. Tolley reported a recent vulnerability that attempts to encourage hackers to hijack VPN connections using either OpenVPN, WireGuard or IKEv2/IPSec VPN solutions on most UNIX-based operating systems. The new security vulnerability could cause a local hacker to figure out whether another user is connected to a Continue Reading

CrackQ Unveils, a New Password Cracking Manager

By CertX December 5, 2019
Miscellaneous

Trustwave – a security services company- has released an open source project directed specifically at companies that would like to provide their security teams and red teams with password cracking as a service, the company confirmed today at the Black Hat Europe Conference. Using the new CrackQ platform enterprises can Continue Reading

Avast and AVG Extensions Caught Snooping on Chrome and Firefox Users

By CertX December 4, 2019
Miscellaneous

Avast Online Security, AVG Online Security, Avast SafePrice, AVG SafePrice are four commonly browser extensions that are caught accumulating much more data from its millions of users than they intend to. Even your detailed browsing history. If any of the four extensions offered by Avast and its subsidiary AVG are Continue Reading

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