Researchers Exploited A Bug in Emotet to Stop the Spread of Malware

The Hacker News Daily Updates Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux ($35.99 Value) FREE for a Limited Time Identify tools and techniques to secure and perform a penetration test on an AWS infrastructure using Kali Linux Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Aug 17, 2020 Researchers Exploited A Bug in Emotet to Stop the Spread of Malware Emotet, a notorious email-based malware behind several botnet-driven spam campaigns and ransomware attacks, contained a flaw that allowed cybersecurity researchers to activate a kill-switch and prevent the malware from infecting systems for six months. "Most of the vulnerabilities and exploits ... Read More How AppTrana Managed Cloud WAF Tackles Evolving Attacking Techniques Web applications suffer continuously evolving attacks, where a web application firewall (WAF) is the first line of defense and a necessary part of organizations' cybersecurity strategies. WAFs are getting more sophisticated all the time, but as its core protection starts with efficient pattern ... Read More New Attack Lets Hackers Decrypt VoLTE Encryption to Spy on Phone Calls A team of academic researchers—who previously made the headlines earlier this year for uncovering severe security issues in the 4G LTE and 5G networks—today presented a new attack called 'ReVoLTE,' that could let remote attackers break the encryption used by VoLTE voice calls and spy on targeted ... Read More Amazon Alexa Bugs Allowed Hackers to Install Malicious Skills Remotely Attention! If you use Amazon's voice assistant Alexa in you smart speakers, just opening an innocent-looking web-link could let attackers install hacking skills on it and spy on your activities remotely. Check Point cybersecurity researchers—Dikla Barda, Roman Zaikin and Yaara Shriki—today ... Read More Microsoft Reveals New Innocent Ways Windows Users Can Get Hacked Microsoft earlier today released its August 2020 batch of software security updates for all supported versions of its Windows operating systems and other products. This month's Patch Tuesday updates address a total of 120 newly discovered software vulnerabilities, of which 17 are critical, and the ... Read More Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux ($35.99 Value) FREE for a Limited Time Identify tools and techniques to secure and perform a penetration test on an AWS infrastructure using Kali Linux Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to balvistudio4.raaj@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