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Cybercrime Market Shares Infrastructure With Jaff Ransomware Operation

The people who distribute the Jaff ransomware share server space with a cybercrime marketplace called PaySell. The server in question is located at 5.101.66.85, an IP assigned to a hosting provider in Saint Petersburgh, Russia, according to Heimdal Security, the company that discovered the connection. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cybercrime-market-shares-infrastructure-with-jaff-ransomware-operation/
British PM Uses Terrorist Attacks to Push for Orwellian Internet Surveillance

Some people have no shame, and one of those is Theresa May, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who used the terror attacks that took place in London, on Saturday, June 3, to push her party's agenda for laws that would push for encryption backdoors. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/government/british-pm-uses-terrorist-attacks-to-push-for-orwellian-internet-surveillance/
Malware Uses Router LEDs to Steal Data From Secure Networks

Specially-designed malware installed on a router or a switch can take control over the device's LEDs and use them to transmit data in a binary format to a nearby attacker, who can capture it using simple video recording equipment. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-uses-router-leds-to-steal-data-from-secure-networks/
Russian State Hackers Use Britney Spears Instagram Posts to Control Malware

A cyber-espionage group known as Turla — believed to be the cyber-arm of Russian intelligence — has been playing around with a backdoor trojan disguised as a Firefox extension that uses comments on Britney Spears Instagram photos to store the location of its command and control (C&C) server. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/russian-state-hackers-use-britney-spears-instagram-posts-to-control-malware/
Researchers Port NSA EternalBlue Exploit to Windows 10

Experts at RiskSense have ported the leaked NSA exploit named ETERNALBLUE for the Windows 10 platform. This is the same exploit that was used by the WannaCry ransomware as part of its SMB self-spreading worm in the mid-May WannaCry outbreak that affected over millions of computers across the world. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/researchers-port-nsa-eternalblue-exploit-to-windows-10/
Self-Downloading Android Malware Target Users in the US, UK, and France

A malvertising campaign detected on a popular forum is forcibly downloading an Android app on users' devices, which later installs a second app with more intrusive features and which is almost impossible to remove without flashing the user's phone. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/self-downloading-android-malware-target-users-in-the-us-uk-and-france/