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Microsoft Announces Custom Chip and Linux Distro to Secure IoT Devices

Yesterday, at the RSA 2018 security conference, Microsoft announced a new security-focused product named Azure Sphere. According to Microsoft chief financial officer Brad Smith, Microsoft created Azure Sphere for the sole purpose of securing Internet of Things (IoT) devices. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-announces-custom-chip-and-linux-distro-to-secure-iot-devices/
Intel to Allow Antivirus Engines to Use Integrated GPUs for Malware Scanning

Intel announced yesterday at the RSA 2018 security conference several new security-focused technologies, among which is a feature that will let security products offload virus scanning operations to integrated graphics processors embedded with some Intel CPUs. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/intel-to-allow-antivirus-engines-to-use-integrated-gpus-for-malware-scanning/
XiaoBa Ransomware Retooled as Coinminer But Manages to Ruin Your Files Anyway

The authors of the XiaoBa ransomware have retooled their malware's code into a cryptocurrency miner (coinminer). Unfortunately, despite not encrypting files anymore, the XiaoBa coinminer still destroys users' data thanks to a series of bugs that primarily corrupt a user's executable files. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/xiaoba-ransomware-retooled-as-coinminer-but-manages-to-ruin-your-files-anyway/
34 Tech Firms Sign Accord Not to Assist Government Hacking Operations

An industry group of 34 high-tech companies led by Microsoft, have signed today a tech accord, agreeing to defend customers at all costs from cybercriminal and nation-state cyber-attacks, but also not to provide any technical aid to governments looking to launch cyber-attacks on other countries, companies, or individual users. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/government/34-tech-firms-sign-accord-not-to-assist-government-hacking-operations/
Teenager Charged For Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach

A 19 year old teenager was charged with 'unauthorized use of a computer' after downloading over 7,000 records from the Nova Scotia Freedom-of-Information web portal. The teenager whose name has not been released, has been accused of stealing documents from the portal, with many of them being publicly accessible and redacted.  [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/teenager-charged-for-nova-scotia-freedom-of-information-web-portal-breach/
Guild Wars 2 Monitored All Running Process in Order To Ban Users

While nobody likes a cheater in online games, sometimes how a company monitors and bans cheaters can go wrong. Such is the case with a recent ban fest unleashed by ArenaNet for their Guild Wars 2 game, which used a program that monitored all processes running on a computer for blacklisted programs. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/guild-wars-2-monitored-all-running-process-in-order-to-ban-users/
Stresspaint Malware Steals Facebook Credentials and Session Cookies

Security researchers have spotted a new information stealer that collects Chrome login data from infected victims, along with session cookies, and appears to be looking for Facebook details in particular, according to a Radware threat alert. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/stresspaint-malware-steals-facebook-credentials-and-session-cookies/
Minecraft & CS:GO Ransomware Strive For Media Attention

When ransomware developers achieve huge media buzz like we saw with the PUBG Ransomware, it is not surprising to see other developers creating copycats. This is the case with two new in-development ransomware programs, if we can even call them that, for both Minecraft and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO). [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/minecraft-and-cs-go-ransomware-strive-for-media-attention/
iOS Trustjacking Attack Exposes iPhones to Remote Hacking

Symantec researchers have found a loophole in how iPhone users pair devices with Mac workstations and laptops. They say attackers can exploit this flaw โ€”which they named Trustjackingโ€” to take over devices without the phone owner's knowledge. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ios-trustjacking-attack-exposes-iphones-to-remote-hacking/
Data Firm Left Profiles of 48 Million Users on a Publicly Accessible AWS Server

LocalBlox, a company that scrapes data from public web profiles, has left the details of over 48 million users on a publicly accessible Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket, according to an UpGuard security researcher who discovered the data on February 28, this year. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/data-firm-left-profiles-of-48-million-users-on-a-publicly-accessible-aws-server/
Brainjacking: A Potentially Deadly Type of Hacking

Hacking the brain of someone with an implanted medical device is not a far-fetched illusion. While at one time a concept relegated to hair-raising Hollywood movies, scientists in Belgium have found that a wireless brain implant, known as a neurostimulator, can be hacked using off-the-shelf materials. By utilizing remote exploitation, [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/brainjacking-a-potentially-deadly-type-of-hacking/