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Incident

Free antivirus has sold its users’ data

Ondrej Vlcek, Avast CEO, has acknowledged in an official statement that the company has sold its users’ data to third parties through its subsidiary Jumpshot.The fact has been revealed in a...

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blog.avast.com

vice.com

pcmag.com

es.gizmodo.com

elmundo.es

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Application

Cayman National Bank cyberattack

The Cayman National Bank issued an official statement announcing that its Isle of Man subsidiary had been cyberattacked. This information had previously been disclosed through an explanatory note...

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caymannational.com

unicornriot.ninja

vice.com

elmundo.es

elconfidencial.com

incibe-cert.es

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Other critical infrastructures

Turla group activity report prepared by NSA and NCSC

The NSA (National Security Agency) of the United States and the NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) of the United Kingdom have published a joint notice on the APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) of...

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us-cert.gov

media.defense.gov

ncsc.gov.uk

incibe-cert.es

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Avast suffers a cyberattack against its VPN

Avast, a Czech cybersecurity software multinational, has admitted in a statement that it was the victim of a cybersecurity campaign called Abiss, in which its network was accessed.Avast discovered...

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blog.avast.com

forbes.com

zdnet.com

genbeta.com

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Application

Cybercrime

A malware campaign by Stealth Falcon group discovered

ESET researchers, along with previous researches by Citizen Labs and International Amnesty, has discovered a spyware dissemination campaign. It has been determined that the Stealth Falcon group is...

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welivesecurity.com

threatpost.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Possible information leakage affects FSB

Several media have voiced a possible information leak that would affect the FSB, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, the successor organisation to the KGB, calling it "possibly...

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forbes.com

zdnet.com

xataka.com

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Cybercrime

Filtered information from millions of Bulgarian citizens

Christian Boykov, who was working as a researcher to prevent cyber attacks, has been arrested as allegedly responsible for leaking sensitive information from millions of Bulgarian citizens. He...

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nap.bg

novinite.com

zdnet.com

infobae.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Incident

Vulnerability

Information theft in the OGusers community

The cybersecurity researcher Brian Krebs has reported the hacking suffered by the underground community OGusers by another forum of similar characteristics RaidForums. OGusers and RaidForums are...

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vice.com

krebsonsecurity.com

gbhackers.com

europapress.es

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Cybercrime

Malware infects foreign embassies in Iran

Kaspersky Lab has warned of several attempts to infect foreign embassies in Iran with a home-made program, which appears to use a Remexi malware backdoor update along with several legitimate tools...

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infochannel.info

securitic.com.mx

cso.computerworld.es

pcbuyersguide.com.ph

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Malware