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New Attack Alert: Freeze[.]rs Injector Weaponized for Attacks with X Fortinet FortiGuard Labs discovers a novel attack chain initiated by a phishing email containing a booby-trapped PDF file. This same attack also introduces Remcos RAT introduced via a crypter called SYK Crypter. Lin said the combination of XWorm and Remcos creates a formidable trojan with…

New Statc Stealer Malware Emerges: Protect your Sensitive Data A new type of malware called Statc Stealer has been found infecting devices running Microsoft Windows. It can steal information from web browsers and send it securely to a remote server. The significance of the malware lies in its potential to steal sensitive browser data and…

GM confirms Cadillac Escalade will not have Apple CarPlay or Android Auto The Escalade IQ has no option for CarPlay or Android Auto. At least, that’s what the company tells us. We received email confirmation that CarPlay and Android Auto weren’t going to make it into the Escalaade IQ from GM’s East Coast communications representative,…

Weaknesses in encryption of a popular Chinese language app puts users’ typed data at risk A Chinese language input app has been found vulnerable to serious security flaws that could allow a malicious intruder to decipher the text typed by users. The findings from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab come from an analysis of…

New Microsoft Cross-Tenant Synchronization Attack Backdoor An attacker who lives in a compromised tenant can deploy a rogue Cross Tenant Access configuration to maintain persistent access. This allows the attacker to sync the compromised user account into the target tenant and grant attacker access to that tenant using the same initially compromised credentials. If there…

Cybercriminals Increasingly Use EvilProxy Phishing Kit to Target Executives EvilProxy is a toolkit used by Phishing-as-a-service phishers to carry out account takeover attacks aimed at high-ranking executives at prominent companies. According to the company, these attacks are an evolution of the cybercrime economy, lowering the barrier for criminals with lower technical skills. They can now…

How to Navigate the Age of AI The actual Alan Turing Test is not a test of artificial intelligence at all. It’s a conversation between Alan Turing and himself about long-distance running, World War II historiography, and the theory of computation. This is sort of like a middle-class man vs. super secret government test, but…

Google Docs and Drive are getting support for e-signatures Google is adding support for eSignatures to Docs and Drive in an attempt to make it easier for people to request signatures and sign documents. It has been testing the feature for a year and a half and today it’s finally ready for prime time. Screenshots…

Interpol Busts Phishing-as-a-Service Platform ’16Shop,’ Interpol has announced the takedown of a phishing-as-a-service platform called 16Shop in addition to the arrests of three individuals in Indonesia and Japan. The company said that more than 70,000 victims across 43 countries are estimated to have been compromised via services offered on 16Shop. Two other suspected facilitators have…

CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google search ranking C CNET, the tech news outlet, has been scrubbing older articles off its site in an effort to improve its Google search ranking. According to reports, thousands of articles have been removed from the site since July. CNET staff unionized in May,…