500 Chrome Extensions Caught Stealing Private Data of 1.7 Million Users

The Hacker News Daily Updates Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) Buyer's Guide Evaluating a SOAR platform? Download the guide. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Feb 17, 2020 A Dozen Vulnerabilities Affect Millions of Bluetooth LE Powered Devices A team of cybersecurity researchers late last week disclosed the existence of 12 potentially severe security vulnerabilities, collectively named 'SweynTooth,' affecting millions of Bluetooth-enabled wireless smart devices worldwide—and worryingly, a few of which haven't yet been patched. All ... Read More U.S. Charges Huawei with Stealing Trade Secrets from 6 Companies The US Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) charged Huawei with racketeering and conspiring to steal trade secrets from six US firms, in a significant escalation of a lawsuit against the Chinese telecom giant that began last year. Accusing Huawei and its ... Read More 500 Chrome Extensions Caught Stealing Private Data of 1.7 Million Users Google removed 500 malicious Chrome extensions from its Web Store after they found to inject malicious ads and siphon off user browsing data to servers under the control of attackers. These extensions were part of a malvertising and ad-fraud campaign that's been operating at least since January ... Read More Download: Definitive 'IR Management and Reporting' Presentation Template The realistic approach to security is that incidents occur. While ideally, the CISO would want to prevent all of them, in practice, some will succeed to a certain degree—making the ability to efficiently manage an incident response process a mandatory skill for any CISO. Moreover, apart from the ... Read More Emotet Malware Now Hacks Nearby Wi-Fi Networks to Infect New Victims Emotet, the notorious trojan behind a number of botnet-driven spam campaigns and ransomware attacks, has found a new attack vector: using already infected devices to identify new victims that are connected to nearby Wi-Fi networks. According to researchers at Binary Defense, the newly discovered ... Read More Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) Buyer's Guide Evaluating a SOAR platform? Download the guide. Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to myemailku.ghdbrevo2018@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India