Edition Zdnet I noticed that a huge list of 515,000 Telnet credentials for many servers, routers and various smart devices was recently published on the popular hacker forum. The dump includes device IP addresses, usernames and passwords, as well as protocol information that can be used to remotely control devices. The list was made public…
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Ryuk ransomware uses Wake-on-LAN to wake devices before attack
Edition Bleepingcomputer reports that Ryuk, a well-known ransomware, now uses the Wake-on-LAN feature to turn on devices on a compromised network and provide more successful encryption. According to recent Ryuk analysisconducted by SentinelLabs head Vitaly Kremez, when the malware runs, it spawns subprocesses with argument 8 LAN. In this way, Ryuk scans the device’s ARP…
More than 50 organizations ask Google to take control of the preinstallation of applications on Android devices
Published open letteraddressed to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, in which over 50 organizations (including Privacy International and the American Civil Liberties Union) are asking Google to take action on bloatware and protect users from applications pre-installed on Android devices. We are talking about the so-called "redundant software" (aka "bullshit"), which is installed on the device…
Hunt for a bug. What are spy devices and how to look for them – "Hacker"
The content of the article It may seem that spy movie bugs are something out of date. Why difficulties if microphones and cameras are everywhere – in laptops, smartphones and other devices? However, access to them can be more difficult than access to the physical space in which they are located. It was then that…
the number of threats to mobile devices has increased dramatically – "Hacker"
Check Point Experts warnedthat by the end of the year the activity of malware for mobile devices has sharply increased. For the first time in the last three years, the XHelper mobile Trojan entered the general list of the most active malvari, and it also became the most common mobile threat in November. The XHelper…
Google will not preinstall its services on Turkish devices due to a complaint from Yandex
By of information Reuters, Google warned its partners in Turkey that it no longer plans to pre-install its services on Android smartphones. The fact is that in the fall of 2018, local antitrust authorities fined Google $ 17.4 million for violating antitrust laws in connection with the sale of mobile software. Then the company is…
Vulnerability StrandHogg is a threat to Android devices and is already under attack
Experts from the Norwegian company Promon discovered vulnerability in Android, which allows malicious applications to modify legitimate and perform malicious operations on their behalf. The vulnerability, called StrandHogg, could trick the user into granting dangerous privileges to a malicious application, and when the user interacts with the application legitimately. Also, the bug can be used…
A law was written on the mandatory preinstallation of Russian software on various devices
Today, December 2, 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed law, which will come into force on July 1, 2020 and will oblige manufacturers to preinstall Russian applications on smartphones and other devices intended for sale in our country. It is interesting that on the eve of the Russian Association of Trading Companies and Manufacturers of…