Not exact matches
Major ATM manufacturers, including Diebold Nixdorf and NCR, have begun warning their US customers
about «jackpotting,» an attack in
which criminals use
malware and hardware to force ATMs to spit out large piles of cash, according to Krebs on Security.
The
malware let the hacker stream all audio from the Echo to a remote server,
which is some serious badass spy shit when you really think
about it.
On the documentary front, there is as ever simply too much for us to be able to cover, but a few potential standouts are «Uncle Howard,»
about a New York filmmaker who died of AIDS
which features footage of William S. Burroughs, Jim Jarmusch, Tom DiCillo and more; «Zero Days,» Alex Gibney «s investigation of
malware used for international espionage; two docs on famous photographers in «Don't Blink — Robert Frank» and «Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures ``; and finally «Strike a Pose,» a film catching up with the original dancers from Madonna «s «Vogue» video,
which sparked a craze and defined an era in pop.
I like to think I can spot phishing emails, but worry more
about ``... clicking on links or attachments in phishing messages [
which] often causes
malware to be downloaded to your computer...» In a given week, my assistants and I receive hundreds of emails from clients, lawyers, clerks, legal assistants, mailing lists, realtors, lenders, process servers, courier companies, CLE providers, etc., etc. — and we're obligated to review them, open the attachments and deal with the contents.
From Play the
malware number is
about 0.05 percent
which is 5 out of 10,000 apps, so that's pretty low.
A few weeks back we wrote
about a flaw in Ledger hardware wallets
which makes it possible to infect the devices with
malware designed to trick users into unknowingly sending their cryptocurrency to hackers.
Although it's not often that we hear
about Windows
malware affecting Android apps, apparently, it is happening to 132 applications
which were available on the Play Store.
In any event, our findings do confirm everyone's assumptions and quantify the phenomenal spread of mining scripts,
which we first wrote
about last October (see
Malware Goes Currency Mining with Your CPU).
In response to growing concern and
malware infections, Microsoft became more serious
about security with Windows XP Service Pack 2,
which included a more powerful firewall and a variety of other security features, including a security center that nags users to install an antivirus program.
That's as Microsoft intends it; the two are meant to provide only minimal protection against
malware, the idea being that anything will be better than nothing (
which is what
about 20 percent of Windows users choose for antivirus protection).
In the case of one Japanese bank, the trojan hides the bank's warnings
about malware and injects a script
which enables the hackers to carry out transactions from the victim's account without user consent.
These are backed up with information from Bitdefender's Global Protection Network,
which gathers data
about new
malware from the 500 million computers running Bitdefender software.
About 25 percent of email users open suspicious emails, Wierzbicki said, and 11 percent open attachments or click on links in those emails —
which activates the
malware that compromises systems.