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Motorists traveling through a Detroit suburb were stunned to see a pornographic video playing on an electronic billboard. Auburn Hills police say the video played on the billboard along Interstate 75 in Oakland County for about 30 minutes Saturday night before the images were removed. Many people called 911. Chuck McMahon says he saw the video and wondered if the billboard was advertising for a strip club. Source: News 18

n independent researcher who goes by the Twitter handle axi0mX has discovered and published an iOS jailbreak exploit that applies to hundreds of millions of devices and cannot be patched. Named checkm8, the exploit leverages a race condition vulnerability found in the bootrom, a read-only memory chip that contains the first code that initially loads whenever a user starts the system. This code cannot be altered, and so any flaw found within it is effectively permanent. Source: SC Magazine

The same attacker was reportedly behind the Collection #1 and Collection #2 data dumps earlier this year. A cybercriminal operating under the alias Gnosticplayers has broken into the Words with Friends database and gained access to 218 million player records, The Hacker News reports. The popular puzzle game is owned by Zynga, one of the biggest names in the social gaming market with other well-known offerings, including FarmVille, Mafia Wars, and Zynga Poker. Zynga issued...

Mitek (NASDAQ: MITK, www.miteksystems.com) has today announced that Ajax Amsterdam, one of Europe's premier football clubs, will be using Mitek's Mobile Verify® with Face Comparison solution to improve online experience and bolster security for fans.  Putting fan enjoyment and safety at the heart of everything they do, Ajax is committed to verifying the identities of ticket buyers. The hurdles, complying with GDPR while maintaining paper copies of fans' ID documents, was becoming an unachievable task.  The...

This week a zero-day vBulletin remote code execution vulnerability and exploit was publicly disclosed and is being used by bad actors to attack vBulletin forums. Cloudflare has now created a special rule that will prevent this exploit from working on vBulletin sites behind Cloudflare's service. Remote code execution vulnerabilities are the most critical as they allow attackers to execute commands, take over a site, install malware, or even distribute malware from a victim's computer and web site.  Since...

An attack campaign targeting primarily the U.S. and Europe is leveraging two legitimate tools, the Node.js framework and WinDivert, to install “fileless” malware that appears to either turn victims’ systems into proxies or perpetrates click fraud. Researchers from both Microsoft Corporation and Cisco Talos yesterday filed separate reports warning of this campaign, which they have named Nodersok or Divergent, respectively. Microsoft, which discovered the campaign in mid-July, said thousands of machines have been targeted in the last several weeks alone, the majority...

Pornography played on giant television screens at an Asics sports store in New Zealand for hours over the weekend after hackers took over the shop’s IT systems. The pornography was streamed onto screens facing Auckland’s Queen Street, the country’s busiest shopping thoroughfare, and wasn’t stopped until employees arrived to open the store on Sunday morning. The Japanese company has apologised to anyone who was inadvertently subjected to the material, and said they were working with their...

Defence contractors Rheinmetall AG and Defence Construction Canada (DCC) were hit this month by cyber-attacks that impacted and disrupted their information technology systems. German Rheinmetall AG is one of the world's top suppliers of military equipment and systems, with two operational components, namely Rheinmetall Defence and Rheinmetall Automotive. "The group's 23,000-strong global workforce generated sales last year of $6.9 billion," says a press release published today. Source: Bleeping Computer

Cybercriminals have found a way to use Google Alerts to hook victims into scams or push malware. Bleeping Computer CEO Lawrence Abrams found that malicious actors are creating malicious sites into Google so they will be emailed to people who have alerts set for that particular subject matter. The malicious pages are created using popular keywords and based on hot topics. “For example, as we publish a lot of ransomware news, I have a Google Alert...

Food delivery company, DoorDash, has confirmed it was hit by a data breach which exposed the data of close to 5 million customers, delivery people and partners. The breach took place in May of this year, and it's unclear why it has taken DoorDash so long to reveal the details. According to a spokesperson for DoorDash, the breach took place via a third party provider - who was not named - and affected users who...