For the $12 cost of a domain, I was able to rank in Google search results with Amazon, Walmart etc. for high value money terms in the US. The Adwords bid price for some these terms is currently around $1 per click, and companies are spendings 10s of thousands of dollars a month to appear as ads on these search results, and I was appearing for free.
The promise of cryptocurrencies, and blockchain technology in general, is decentralization. Proponents say that if power is spread out to many different people and groups, then no single entity can impose its agenda on the whole network. In practice, however, cryptocurrency communities rely on many centralized tools.
For example, much of the discussion within cryptocurrency communities takes place on Twitter and Reddit. Using popular services like these is good for accessibility, but occasionally relying on an mainstream entity backfires on the cryptocurrency proponents.
The Intel Remote Keyboard product is an Android and iOS app that works in conjunction with Intel’s mini-PC platform called Next Unit of Computing (NUC) and with the chipmaker’s Compute Stick. NUCs are similar in size and function to Raspberry Pi systems. Compute Sticks are about the size of a large flash drive and are single-board computers used both in classrooms, kiosks and in some network computer environments.
This week, Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off 5th, and Lord & Taylor department stores—all owned by The Hudson’s Bay Company—acknowledged a data breach impacting more than five million credit and debit card numbers. The culprits? The same group that’s spent the last few years pulling off data heists from Omni Hotels & Resorts, Trump Hotels, Jason’s Deli, Whole Foods, Chipotle: A mysterious group known as Fin7.
Those figures suggest that the total number of visits to these typosquatting sites in the first quarter of 2018 was approximately 12 million, or almost50 million hits per year. Certainly, not everyone visiting these sites will have the experience that Chambers’ users reported (being bombarded with misleading malware alerts and redirected to scammy and spammy Web sites), but it seems clear this network could make its operators a pretty penny regardless of the content that ends up getting served through it.
Some Intel processors will not receive security patches for the Spectre (variant 2) side-channel analysis attack.
Source: thehackernews.com
In recent months, the topic of cryptocurrency has been a permanent news fixture — the value of digital money has been see-sawing spectacularly. Such pyrotechnics could hardly have escaped the attention of scammers, which is why cryptocurrency fluctuations have gone hand in hand with all kinds of stories. These include hacked exchanges, Bitcoin and Monero ransoms, and, of course, hidden mining.
Source: securelist.com
In Europe, an Internet user can force Google to hide search results that are inaccurate or just too personal. But Americans don’t have the same legal protections — even in the most extreme cases.
Source: npr.org
At the 2018 Deconomy conference in Seoul, South Korea, Buterin and Wright were both booked as speakers, and the sparks flew. During question period for a panel that included Wright, Buterin (according to audience video from multiple angles posted to social media) stood up in the audience and asked, “Given he makes so many non-sequiturs and mistakes, why is this fraud allowed to speak at this conference?” The audience, video shows, went wild.
On Monday, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a complaint against the masterminds of an initial coin offering (ICO) promoted by the boxer Floyd Mayweather and producer DJ Khaled, charging them with fraud. The founders were separately arrested and charged by law enforcement.
Source: vice.com
The two founders of a cryptocurrency firm called Centra have been charged with with carrying out a fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO) by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Centra raised $32 million via an ICO which was promoted by boxer Floyd Mayweather.
Sohrab ‘Sam’ Sharma and Robert Farkas, co-founders of Centra were arrested.
Source: cnbc.com
After attending 34C3 in Leipzig at the end of December, in which we (Zlatan and me) met with some of you, and had a lot of fun, I took some time off to travel Europe and fall victim to the horrible Influenza virus that so many people caught this year. After a couple more weeks of bed rest, I continued my saga in trying to find the real entry point of the Intel FSP-S module.
Today let’s scope in on backdooring some plugins for popular software. I will be covering a bunch of other programs, mainly stuff already on my computer.
Source: gironsec.com
First, the proof that I reported this, and the beginning of the timeline. I reported this vulnerability in August 2017, which is shown by the following email exchange with Panera Bread’s Information Security Director, Mike Gustavison. After attempting to contact them through a generic [email protected] email address (which bounced), Twitter and even LinkedIn and email messages to Mike Gustavison (whose information I found on LinkedIn), I was formally introduced by an industry contact who had a mutual connection.
The data available in plain text from Panera’s site appeared to include records for any customer who has signed up for an account to order food online via panerabread.com. The St. Louis-based company, which has more than 2,100 retail locations in the United States and Canada, allows customers to order food online for pickup in stores or for delivery.
Source: krebsonsecurity.com
In practice, Chome on Windows looks through your computer in search of malware that targets the Chrome browser itself using ESET’s antivirus engine. If it finds some suspected malware, it sends metadata of the file where the malware is stored, and some system information, to Google. Then, it asks you to for permission to remove the suspected malicious file.
In theory, cryptojacking can be used for legitimate purposes, like raising revenue for a publishing platform or collecting funds for charitable causes. But in practice, the technology has largely been implemented maliciously, or at least secretly, consuming processing resources on victim devices and potentially interfering with and damaging these targets. Bad actors can use locally installed malware to steal a victim device’s computing power, embed miners directly into websites to target casual web users without needing to install anything, or hide miners in the most innocuous applets and tools.
The coding errors were created in July 2011 when the bank introduced an automated decision tool to process customer overdraft applications, but the problems weren’t discovered until September 2015. During the calculations that decided whether a customer could actually afford an overdraft, one software error in the decision tool’s algorithm failed to count a customer’s rental expenses, while another error accessed a wrong data field that was used for determining a customer’s overall household expenditures. The result was that a customer’s true expenses where likely underestimated or under-assessed.
On Sunday, the security focused content delivery network provider, Cloudflare, opened up a global Domain Name System (DNS) for consumers to run both DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS. The service is called 1.1.1.1. That is the IPv4 address for Cloudflare’s DNS resolver (along with 1.0.0.1).
Source: threatpost.com
Several days ago, EST Security published a post concerning a fake antivirus malware targeting the Android mobile platform. In the Korean media, it was mentioned that there could be a link between this Android malware and Group 123. Talos decided to investigate this malware.
And due to our reporting and history of following of Group 123, we discovered some interesting elements.
Source: talosintelligence.com