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For the less technical
- Fraudster helped police crack eastern suburbs drug syndicate
- Fake hitman site used in alleged murder-for-hire plot
- Hiding Russian money was easy
- Russian troll factory suspected to be behind the attack against Italian president
- Anonymous vs. QAnon: Hackers pledge to take down pro-Trump conspiracy
- New tool enables detection of Twitter bots at scale + additional information
- Honeytrap spy stole secrets of new RAF jet
- TSMC details impact of computer virus incident + more information
- Florida man arrested in SIM swap conspiracy
- Huawei in British spotlight over use of U.S. firm’s software
- Cramming software with thousands of fake bugs could make it more secure
- Google hacker asks Tim Cook to donate $2.45 million in unpaid iPhone bug bounties
- Avast pulls the latest version of CCleaner following privacy controversy
- Facebook recently started asking banks for your financial data
For the more technical
- Fin7 and the Perfect Phish
- DarkHydrus uses phishery to harvest credentials in the Middle East
- Tech support scam integrates call optimization service
- Online stock trading has serious security holes
- Piping botnet – turning green technology into a water disaster (PDF)
- New attack on WPA/WPA2 using PMKID
- Cracking WPA-2 just got a whole lot easier
- Screaming Channels: When electromagnetic side channels meet radio transceivers
- How I gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes
- Why the Reddit incident shouldn’t cause InfoSec to throw SMS authentication under the bus
- Audit of Tangem’s smartcard wallet code
- Malware targeting Bitcoin ATMs pops up in the underground
- Bokbot: The (re)birth of a banker
- Ramnit’s network of proxy servers
- Understanding Triton and the missing final stage of the attack
- Exploit kits: summer 2018 review
- Ransomware as a service Princess Evolution looking for affiliates
- FakesApp: A vulnerability in WhatsApp
- Vulnerabilities in SIMATIC STEP 7 and SIMATIC WinCC (PDF)
- A new pacemaker hack puts malware directly on the device + more information
- Hacking a brand new Mac remotely, right out of the box
- Linux kernel bug: TCP flaw lets remote attackers stall devices with tiny DoS attack
- Hacker finds hidden ‘god mode’ on old x86 CPUs
- Crowdfense launches platform to source new zero-day vulnerabilities for sale
- Nominees & winners of the 2018 Pwnie Awards
- Microsoft’s Top 100 Security Researchers – Black Hat 2018 Edition
- CODE BLUE CTF 2018 Quals write-up
- Snapchat source code leaked and posted to GitHub
- Windows 10 Enterprise getting “InPrivate Desktop” sandboxed execution feature
- Android Pie lockdown option: a match for iOS SOS mode?
- Android Security Bulletin – August 2018
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