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Many don’t have any security controls in place, says F-Secure

Ransomware group tries to demonize carriers in negotiations

Trio get 12 years behind bars

Stealc is a fully featured stealer, whose development relied on Vidar, Raccoon, Mars and Redline

The flaw is triggered using the Race Condition between temporary file creation and deletion

Another day, another “sophisticated” attack. This time, the company has handily included some useful advice along with its mea culpa…

The Intercept has a long article on the insecurity of photo cropping:

One of the hazards lies in the fact that, for some of the programs, downstream crop reversals are possible for viewers or readers of the document, not just the file’s creators or editors. Official instruction manuals, help pages, and promotional materials may mention that cropping is reversible, but this documentation at times fails to note that these operations are reversible by any viewers of a given image or document.

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Uncropped versions of images can be preserved not just in Office apps, but also in a file’s own metadata. A photograph taken with a modern digital camera contains all types of metadata. Many image files record text-based metadata such as the camera make and model or the GPS coordinates at which the image was captured. Some photos also include binary data such as a thumbnail version of the original photo that may persist in the file’s metadata even after the photo has been edited in an image editor.

An unauthorized party caused the intermittent redirection of customer websites

The feature provides a sandbox layer isolating some image files from the rest of the device

Criminal network comprises French and Israeli gangsters