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New FileFix attack uses steganography to drop StealC malware

A newly discovered FileFix social engineering attack impersonates Meta account suspension warnings to trick users into ...

Google nukes 224 Android malware apps behind massive ad fraud campaign

A massive Android ad fraud operation dubbed "SlopAds" was disrupted after 224 malicious applications on Google Play were used to generate 2.3 billion ad requests per day.
Nature

How billions of hacked mosquitoes and a vaccine could beat the deadly dengue virus

Outbreaks of dengue are killing thousands of people in South America each year and getting worse. Brazil hopes to turn the ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

Engineer turns disposable vape into 24KB web server that loads pages in 160ms

Engineer Bogdan Ionescu repurposed a discarded vape into a web server, showing how e-waste holds hidden potential far beyond ...
Krebs on Security

Self-Replicating Worm Hits 180+ Software Packages

The novel malware strain is being dubbed Shai-Hulud — after the name for the giant sandworms in Frank Herbert’s Dune novel ...

Chinese malware is flooding GitHub pages - HiddenGh0st, Winos and kkRAT hit devs via SEO poisoning

Chinese users looking to download popular browsers and communications software are being targeted by different malware ...
The Register on MSN

'FileFix' attacks use fake Facebook security alerts to trick victims into running infostealers

Tech evolved from PoC to global campaign in under two months An attack called FileFix is masquerading as a Facebook security alert before ultimately dropping the widely used StealC infostealer and ...