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BA Website Hijacked by Magecart. Again. | Avast
Magecart is certainly on a roll as it has managed to rack up quite a kill rate of late. In its latest act, the group has stolen sensitive information of nearly 185,000 booking transactions from British Airways. This is the group’s second attack against…
US Counters Russian Influence & Magecart Hacks Magento | Avast
US starts counter-espionage operation against Russia
Hacker creates seven new variants of the Mirai botnet | Avast
In September 2016, Twitter, CNN, Spotify, and many others were knocked offline by the biggest DDoS attack in history. Today we know it by the name Mirai, but no one would have imagined at the time that this attack was coming from a herd of Internet of …
Android device firmware cheats Chinese ad networks | Avast
After publishing our story about pre-installed malware on Android devices, we continued to analyze the firmware images of cheap Android devices. It is a rather sad endeavour, as our statistics put pre-installed malware as one of the top infection vecto…
AWS FreeRTOS Riddled with Security Vulnerabilities | Avast
Researchers from Zimperium’s zLabs team have discovered that the popular Internet of Things real-time operating system from AWS – FreeRTOS – is riddled with serious vulnerabilities that could let hackers crash connected devices in homes or critical inf…
The MSP Guide to Vertical Market Success: 10 Steps for Entering a Vertical Market | Avast Business
It’s a great time to be an MSP. With cybercrime a daily occurrence, the business sector is looking for managed security services to keep them protected. This is especially true among SMBs, who tend to have insufficient resources to hire and train their…
Inside the industry of cybercrime | Avast
For as long as there’s been an internet, there’s been cybercrime. Real-world criminal activity is mirrored in our digital lives. In both worlds, you find stalking, theft, extortion, destruction of property, and scams and schemes galore. And while we co…
Fighting mobile banking threats with threat intelligence | Avast
The Banking in Motion 2018 summit takes place next week in Prague where Avast Head of Mobile Threat Intelligence & Security Nikolaos Chrysaidos will take part in a panel discussion on “Responding to Challenges of Customer Centricity.” You can strea…
North Carolina held for ransom and Agent Tesla becomes stealthy
North Carolina water utility shut down by ransomware
Hurricane Michael, Florence, and now this. It seems North Carolina just can’t catch a break as one of its major water utilities went offline following a ransomware attack. The Onslow Water and Sewer…