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Industrial routers are being hit by zero-days from new Mirai botnets
Chinese researchers discovered a variant of Mirai with an offensive name It targets industrial routers and smart home devices with zero-day flaws, misconfigurations, and poor passwords Some 15,000 active IP addresses were found A new malicious botnet was recently observed, spreading through zero-day vulnerabilities and assimilating industrial routers and smart…
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Docking stations for the Mac Mini M4, now that’s something Apple may wholeheartedly appreciate (or not)
Orico announces MiniLink, “a one-stop storage and dock”, for the Mac Mini M4 It adds up to nine ports as well as an SSD The taller, cheaper MiniDock allows you to store the Mini vertically The Mac Mini M4 is known for its compact size and sleek design, but could…
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Security experts are being targeted with fake malware discoveries
Trend Micro spots piece of malware being advertised as PoC fork for a major Windows vulnerability The malware acts as an infostealer, grabbing vital system information These types of attacks are often conducted by nation-states Cybercriminals are targeting security researchers with fake proof-of-concept (PoC) solutions, trying to infect their computers…
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Mexican fintech company Miio exposed millions of files of sensitive customer data
2.9 million files from fintech firm Miio have been found exposed online Researchers say the information has been unguarded for months The company is yet to respond to the disclosure notice Cybersecurity researchers have claimed financial technology firm Miio, which offers mobile telecoms and financial services to customers in Mexico,…
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NATO wants to build an alternative satellite-based internet to be used in case of emergency
Project HEIST wants to mitigate physical sabotaging of underwater cables HEIST is expected to use laser optics rather than radio Exabytes of data flow in more than 1 million Km of fiber across the globe NATO is reportedly developing a satellite-based backup for global internet communications to address vulnerabilities exposed…
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Researcher nets major reward for finding Facebook bug able to unlock the gates to its internal systems
A security flaw found in Facebook’s ad platform has been fixed by Meta The researcher who discovered the flaw was awarded a $100,000 bug bounty The flaw allowed the researcher to effectively take control of a Facebook server Meta has awarded cybersecurity researcher Ben Sadeghipour a bug bounty of $100,000…
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