For the uninitiated, Dridex is a deadly banking malware that leverages macros in Microsoft Office to infect systems. Once a computer has been infected, Dridex attackers steals banking credentials and other personal information on the system to gain access to the financial records of a user. Dridex operates by first arriving on a user’s computer as a malicious spam e-mail with a Microsoft Word document attached to the message. If the victim opens the document, a macro embedded in the document surreptitiously triggers a download of the Dridex banking malware, enabling it to first steal banking credentials and then attempt to generate fraudulent financial transactions....

The incident happened on a Monday afternoon in Florida, USA. The Florida police responded to a hit-and-run in the 500 block of Northwest Prima Vista Boulevard when the victim, Anna Preston, said she was struck from behind by a black vehicle that took off. Preston was taken to the hospital with back injuries. Around the same time, police dispatch got an automated call from a vehicle emergency system stating the owner of a Ford vehicle was involved in a crash and to press zero to speak with the occupants of the vehicle....

The Dropbox shell extension that’s most likely triggering these events as described in @razvanh’s Medium explanation. the application routinely communicates with its sync infrastructure at Dropbox and AWS (AWS CloudFormation) endpoints. By this logic the provided evidence doesn’t show that the application is reading or transmitting any files outside your Dropbox folder; but it doesn’t disprove it either. Is it possible to test this hypothesis, yes. Dropbox only sent a few hundred KB after “accessing” the target file....

Major General Burke Wilson, commander of the 24th Air Force, a division of the US Air Force that is specialized in cyberspace operations, has revealed a new US Air Force project which involves using an airplane to provide an airborne hacking platform. Major Wilson made the comments at the Air Force Association Air & Space conference in National Harbor, Maryland. It is well known that all military networks around the world usually use air-gapped systems (without access to Internet connection) to protect sensitive data from being hacked by external actors like hackers or another country’s cyber-army....

Building the test track for the much awaited “Hyperloop” high speed train is expected to cost around $100 million.How would the Hyperloop work: Hypothetical Hyperloop trains are expected to travel faster than airplane and now a start up company has signed a deal to built test track for the proposed Hyperloop train in central California. The 5 mile (8 Km) pilot project tracks would be build earlier next year and this is a crucial step towards building the much awaited fastest Hyperloop train....

Elon Musk has now become Twitter’s largest shareholder and he is followed by an 8.8 percent stake owned by the mutual-fund company Vanguard and the 2.3 percent stake of Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s former chief executive. After news of Elon Musks’ buy-in was announced, Twitter shares soared about 25% in pre-market trading. At the time of writing this article, Elon Musk has more than 80 million followers on Twitter. Despite being the world’s richest man, Musk doesn’t hesitate to share memes on his Twitter account alongside updates from the companies he owns – including SpaceX and Neuralink....

The move by Apple came after Epic Games, the video game developer behind Fortnite, introduced a new direct payment method for the mobile game on iOS and Android devices that offers discounts on digital items purchased directly through Epic instead of buying through Apple’s payment system. “Today, Epic Games took the unfortunate step of violating the App Store guidelines that are applied equally to every developer and designed to keep the store safe for our users....

Back then, Facebook had announced in a blog post dated March 21, 2019 that passwords were left in a “readable format”, which allowed at least 2,000 Facebook engineers and developers with access to the company’s internal systems to view the actual plain text passwords. “This caught our attention because our login systems are designed to mask passwords using techniques that make them unreadable. We have fixed these issues and as a precaution will be notifying everyone whose passwords we found stored this way,” wrote Pedro Canahuati, Vice President, Engineering, Security and Privacy at Facebook....

Facebook users have started getting notifications from friends urging them to send a pre-written message to India’s telecom regulator TRAI to ‘save’ Free Basics and ‘achieve’ digital equality’ in India. The campaign, which shows up when users sign onto the social media platform and includes a pre-filled form so they don’t even have to write an email, has already proven controversial, with opponents saying its message undermines net neutrality in India....

The word “Facebook Dislike” was sprayed as a rejection of the social network on one of the outer walls of the Facebook office building. After their attack, the masked assailants fled the scene. No injuries were reported in the incident. The black-clad, masked vandals hurled rocks, paint and smoke bombs at the building, damaging its walls, front door and windows, in the northern port city of Hamburg around 2000 GMT Saturday....

Max Jalal shared the mobile phone footage showing how he and his group of friends get a family value Dinner Box that usually costs $19.95 / €17.50 for just $9.95 / €8.80 by doing nothing but using the self-serve tills. Jalal suggests going with the option to pay at the counter instead of the machine, in order to keep the employees unaware of the trick. Max Jalal selects a $20 dinner box, then his friend doing the filming, is heard saying: “This is the best bit, watch this....

According to Comparitech, which first reported the privacy issues says that the app has been shared over 16 million times. The site wrote “That’s over 16 million people who agreed to give up almost every private detail about themselves to a company they likely know nothing about.” In order to make the application work, basically you need to grant the application access. In other words, when a Facebook user signs up to use the app, he or she agrees to give the “What Are Your Most Used Words on Facebook?...

The new app called “Study from Facebook” will collect information about apps installed on a participant’s phone, time spent using those apps, participant’s country, device and network type, and the features the participant is accessing within those apps. “We believe this work is important to help us improve our products for the people who use Facebook. We also know that this kind of research must be clear about what people are signing up for, how their information will be collected and used, and how to opt out of the research at any time,” Facebook product manager Sagee Ben-Zedeff explained in a company blog post....

When Facebook detects that your account is indeed trolling, you will be then asked to recognize if the profile in question is mimicking you by using your personal information, or if it just happens to be your doppelganger. According to Mashable, even though the notification process is automated, each response is manually reviewed by Facebook’s team. The tool has been in the works since November 2015, and is now ready for release to about 75 percent of users of the world....

Called as “TransCoder”, this AI-based language conversion tool can translate between high-level languages such as C++, Java, and Python into a different code with high accuracy. The research study has been detailed in the paper titled, “Unsupervised Translation of Programming Languages.” Converting code from one programming language to another is a difficult task for even an experienced programmer, as it requires knowledge of both the source language and the target language, making code-translation projects expensive....

The premier investigative agency of United States of America, Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) had its website content management system hacked. A hacker with Twitter handle of CyberZeist claimed that he had managed to breach into Plone CMS used by FBI for its website. CyberZeist also leaked around 150 logins, including email addresses and encrypted passwords online. CyberZeist said he breached the Plone CMS, also being used by the FBI, in late December using a zero-day that was discovered by somebody else....

Yesterday we had reported that the 2013 Moto X (1st Gen) had started receiving Android 5.1 Lollipop update in Canada, United States and Brazil so maybe Motorola will follow the same pattern for the Moto X (2nd Gen) smartphone. Motorola’s David Schuster, Senior Director of Software Product Management, last week had confirmed that Motorola Moto X and Moto X (Gen 2) entered soak test in several markets. Adding further, Schuster had noted that “If all goes well we would expect full deployments to start next week....

Earlier this year, authorities were able to locate a kidnapped teen, and around a couple of years back, the exact same feature was used to retrieve items that were worth $350,000. Now, local reports have said that someone who had their iPad forcibly stolen were able to retrieve it but in addition to this, the local police were able to strike gold as they were able to apprehend criminals of a local notorious gang called Ma Diaw....

According to the company, Commando VM is a “first of its kind Windows-based security distribution for penetration testing and red teaming.” This automation installation script turns a Windows operating system into a hacking system. FireEye says that Commando VM originated from their company’s popular Flare VM that focuses on reverse engineering and malware analysis platform. “Penetration testers commonly use their own variants of Windows machines when assessing Active Directory environments....

If all things go according to Munich’s city authority’s plan, the city computers will have erased Linux operating system and installed Windows 10 by the year 2020. Readers should recall that Munich was one of the first city councils to dump Windows for open source and Linux way back before other cities. This new decision to dump Linux will no doubt have repercussions as thousands of council computers will move from Linux to Windows, in a reversal of one of open-source software’s marquee successes....