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Researchers recreate fingerprints from the sounds made when you swipe on a touchscreen
By Mark Tyson published
Researchers claim they can successfully attack up to 27.9% of partial fingerprints.

FBI deactivates Russian military botnet discovered on 1000+ compromised routers
By Christopher Harper published
A GRU botnet using Moobot was installed on unsecured routers (including those belonging to many homes and small businesses) with default admin passwords.

Graphics card flaw enables data theft in AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm chips by exploiting GPU memory
By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published
A research group found a way to extract user data from the graphics chip's accompanying memory chips as it contains residual data even after completing an executable task.

Steam game mod delivered malware on Christmas Day
By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published
The Malware was distributed through the mod on Steam to gain user information and passwords stored in browsers and chat clients.

Purported GTA 5 source code distributed on Telegram
By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published
Rockstar Games is having a tough time dealing with leaks by Lapsus$.

China's Largest Bank Forced to Settle Trades by USB Stick After Ransomware Attack
By Brandon Hill published
China's ICBC is the world's largest bank, and it was hit with ransomware earlier this week.

Phony Corsair LinkedIn Listing Contains DarkGate Malware
By Brandon Hill published
The DarkGate malware is distributed by a Vietnamese cybercriminal ring.

WinRAR Flaw Let Hackers Run Programs When Opening RAR Files, Patch Issued
By Mark Tyson published
WinRAR has been updated to version 6.23 to fix a glaring arbitrary code execution flaw disclosed to the firm in June.
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