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Axis Bank, India's third-largest private bank, announced today that it was the victim of a cyber-attack, but has managed to stop the intrusion before the hacker stole any funds from customer accounts. Bank officials have already reported the incident to the Reserve Bank of India, the country's banking regulator. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Softpedia

Researchers have devised a technique that bypasses a key security protection built into just about every operating system. If left unfixed, this could make malware attacks much more potent. ASLR, short for "address space layout randomization," is a defense against a class of widely used attacks that surreptitiously install malware by exploiting vulnerabilities in an operating system or application. By randomizing the locations in computer memory where software loads specific chunks of code, ASLR often...

Millennials are more likely to fall for tech support scams than baby boomers, Microsoft says. The findings are revealed in a recent Microsoft study that saw it poll peeps in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and nine other countries. Redmond's not revealed the number of respondents. Tech support scams take on various flavours but often begin with fake blue screen of death advertisement pages warning of malware infections. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE:...

Would you click on a news article purporting to show a photo of a deceased Donald Trump laying on a stage after an apparent heart attack? Cybercriminals are betting that a good many of you will. It’s the reason for a recent ramp-up in the use of election-themed email and other online lures to try and distribute spam and malware. In an alert this week, security vendor Zscaler urged Internet users to be extra cautious...

To no one's surprise, the release of the Mirai malware source code has resulted in other crooks creating their own variants, infecting new devices, and more than doubling the size of the original Mirai botnet. This falls exactly into the plans of Anna-senpai, the nickname used by Mirai's author, who hoped that others would take his malware and create new botnets that will help him conceal his mega-botnet, the one he used to launch the...

US law enforcement served a modified search warrant that allowed agents to collect the thumbprints and fingerprints of everyone at the premises. The warrant is not publicly available at this time. But a court filing dated 9 May 2016 provides some insight into the lengths to which the Department of Justice was willing to go to investigate a property in Lancaster, California. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: London House & Graham Cluley

Hackers are going to considerable lengths to hide credit cards stolen from site sites victimised in a wave of recent attacks, weaving the data into working images of products sold online. The tricks are part of a wave of attacks targeting some 6000 Magento e-commerce sites The Register reported last week. Sucuri remediation team lead Ben Martin found php code that pushed credit card numbers into images while examining one recently-compromised, but unnamed, site. View...

Hacking attempts against more than 10 US state election databases have increased fears about Russian efforts to disrupt or influence the 2016 presidential election. Cyberattacks against voting databases in Arizona, Illinois and at least eight other states have only heightened concerns in the wake of the hack and subsequent leak of emails from the Democratic National Congress. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

A Linux threat known as NyaDrop is exploiting a lack of security in Internet of Things (IoT) devices to infect them with malware. A NyaDrop attack begins with the threat attempting to brute force the default login credentials of internet-exposed IoT device running Linux. It does so by running through its list of stored usernames and passwords, a collection which is no doubt similar to that of the Mirai botnet. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE:...

The national news media has been consumed of late with reports of Russian hackers breaking into networks of the Democratic National Committee. Lest the Republicans feel left out of all the excitement, a report this past week out of The Netherlands suggests Russian hackers have for the past six months been siphoning credit card data from visitors to the Web storefront of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC). That’s right: If you purchased a “Never...