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Alina (malware) Alina is a Point of Sale Malware or POS RAM Scraper that is used by cybercriminals to scrape credit card and debit card information from the point of sale system. [1] It first started to scrape information in late 2012. It resembles JackPOS Malware. [2] [3]
The General Data Protection Regulation ( Regulation (EU) 2016/679, abbreviated GDPR) is a European Union regulation on information privacy in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). The GDPR is an important component of EU privacy law and human rights law, in particular Article 8 (1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of ...
TLBleed. TLBleed is a cryptographic side-channel attack that uses machine learning to exploit a timing side-channel via the translation look-aside buffer (TLB) on modern microprocessors that use simultaneous multithreading. [1] [2] As of June 2018, the attack has only been demonstrated experimentally on Intel processors; it is speculated that ...
The Bangladesh Bank robbery, also known colloquially as the Bangladesh Bank cyber heist, [1] was a theft that took place in February 2016. Thirty-five fraudulent instructions were issued by security hackers via the SWIFT network to illegally transfer close to US$1 billion from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York account belonging to Bangladesh ...
Biggest private data leak in Philippine history. Arrests. Paul Biteng (arrested on April 20) Joenel de Asis (arrested on April 28) On March 27, 2016, hackers under the banner "Anonymous Philippines" hacked into the website of the Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and defaced it. The hackers left a message calling for tighter security ...
The Democratic National Committee cyber attacks took place in 2015 and 2016, [1] in which two groups of Russian computer hackers infiltrated the Democratic National Committee (DNC) computer network, leading to a data breach. Cybersecurity experts, as well as the U.S. government, determined that the cyberespionage was the work of Russian ...
Rootpipe. Rootpipe is a security vulnerability found in some versions of OS X that allows privilege escalation whereby a user with administrative rights, or a program executed by an administrative user, can obtain superuser (root) access. This is considered problematic as the first user account created under OS X is furnished with administrator ...
Fancy Bear [1] Operating system (s) affected. Windows, Linux, iOS, Android. X-Agent or XAgent is a spyware and malware program designed to collect and transmit hacked files from machines running Windows, Linux, iOS, or Android, to servers operated by hackers. It employs phishing attacks and the program is designed to "hop" from device to device.