Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Apr 25 2019 10:43:30

Here's the latest anti-virus and System Security news from the Naked
Security Blog at Sophos. You can access these for yourself at

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com

You can also sign up to receive a daily digest (Monday through Friday)
of security issues and links, delivered right to your email box.

It's a reminder to PRACTICE SAFE HEX!! You could lose your data via
an attack of malware, ransomware, or be a victim of identity theft,
otherwise.

Note that text in some of the links may content text that some may
find vulgar, profane, offensive, explicitly sexual, etc. -- these are
provided to alert you that your system may have been infected!!

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ExtraPulsar backdoor based on leaked NSA code - what you need to know

A US security researcher has come up with an open-source Windows
backdoor loosely based on NSA attack code that leaked back in 2017.

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Blochainbandit stole $54 million of Ethereum by guessing weak keys

Someone has been quietly pilfering Ethereum (ETH) cryptocurrency worth
millions of dollars without anyone noticing or, apparently, caring.

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Atlanta Hawks fall prey to Magecart credit card skimming group

The Atlanta Hawks basketball team is recovering after a sophisticated
cybercrime group hacked its ecommerce site and planted credit card
skimming code on it.

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Teen sues Apple for $1 billion over Apple stores' facial recognition

He claims that Apple allegedly uses the technology to spot shoplifters
and that it falsely linked him to a series of Apple store thefts.

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