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Cyber News Rundown: Scarab Ransomware Strikes Back
With a few interesting changes to the original Scarab ransomware, Scarabey is quickly targeting Russian-speaking users with brute force attacks on unsecured RDP connections, rather than with the spam email campaigns used by its predecessor. Additionally, Scarabey takes the ransom a bit further by deleting 24 files from the encrypted machine for every 24 hours that the ransom remains unpaid.
Safer Internet Day: 3 things your social networks can do for you
Part of building a safer internet is how we use it. If we forward inappropriate or risky links; if we display, or even tolerate, unacceptable behaviour ourselves; if we do things that put other people’s computers at risk because we don’t care about our own…
…all of this amounts to a sort of “race to the bottom” that ends up in an internet where creeps and crooks can thrive, and the rest of us are left to watch our backs all the time.
WordPress users – do an update now, and do it by hand!
WordPress just announced a most embarrassing bug.
Earlier this week, the world’s most widely used blogging and content delivery platform pushed out its Version 4.9.3 Maintenance Release. There weren’t any critical security patches in this one, but there were 34 bug fixes, and who doesn’t want bugs fixed promptly?
Bug in Grammarly browser extension exposes virtually everything a user ever writes
The Grammarly browser extension, which has about 22 million users, exposes its authentication tokens to all websites, allowing any to access all the user’s data without permission, according to a bug report from Google Project Zero’s Tavis Ormandy.
Hacking Amazon Key – Hacker shows how to access a locked door after the delivery
Earlier in November, Amazon announced for its Prime members the Amazon Key, a program that would allow a delivery person to enter your home under video surveillance, securely drop off the package, and leave with the door locking behind them. The system could also be used to grant access to the people you trust, like your family, friends, or house cleaner.