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List of Ripple20 vulnerability advisories, patches, and updates

The dust is far from settled following the disclosure of the 19 vulnerabilities in the TCP/IP stack from Treck, collectively referred to as Ripple20, which could help attackers take full control of vulnerable devices on the network. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/list-of-ripple20-vulnerability-advisories-patches-and-updates/
New Lucifer DDoS malware creates a legion of Windows minions

A new botnet identified in the wild leverages close to a dozen exploits for high and critical-severity vulnerabilities against Windows systems to turn them into cryptomining clients and sources for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-lucifer-ddos-malware-creates-a-legion-of-windows-minions/
Hackers hide credit card stealing scripts in favicon EXIF data

Hackers are always evolving their tactics to stay one step ahead of security companies. A perfect example of this is the hiding of malicious credit card stealing scripts in the EXIF data of a favicon image to evade detection. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-hide-credit-card-stealing-scripts-in-favicon-exif-data/
Owner of Cardplanet credit card market gets 9 years in prison

A 30-year old Russian national named Aleksey Yurievich Burkov was sentenced today to nine years in prison for running Cardplanet and Direct Connection, two sites that facilitated payment card fraud, computer hacking, and other cybercrimes. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/owner-of-cardplanet-credit-card-market-gets-9-years-in-prison/
Admin of carding portal behind $568M in losses pleads guilty

Russian national Sergey Medvedev, one of the co-founders of Internet-based cybercriminal enterprise Infraud Organization and an admin on the organization's carding forum, today pleaded guilty to RICO conspiracy. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/admin-of-carding-portal-behind-568m-in-losses-pleads-guilty/
Why certain characters "glitch" Gmail, YouTube, and Twitter

Have you ever used Twitter, Gmail, or YouTube and noticed odd characters being displayed vertically overlay other text on the page or break out UI boundaries? If so and have wondered how this is happening, we dive into the wonderful world of Unicode that causes this behavior. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/why-certain-characters-glitch-gmail-youtube-and-twitter/
Samsung is reportedly working on a more affordable Galaxy Fold

Samsung is reportedly working on Galaxy Fold Lite for as cheap as $900. The Galaxy Fold Lite will reportedly launch in 2021, but remember that this is just a rumor out of South Korea and it has to be taken with a grain of salt. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/hardware/samsung-is-reportedly-working-on-a-more-affordable-galaxy-fold/