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Researchers Discover Another Hyper-Threading Vulnerability in Intel CPUs

New PortSmash (CVE-2018-5407) Side-Channel Attack Could Allow Malicious Processes to Steal Sensitive and Protected Data

Read More: https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/portsmash-intel-vulnerability.html
BleedingBit — Two New Critical #Bluetooth Chip RCE Vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-16986 and CVE-2018-7080) Expose Millions of BLE-Enabled Enterprise Networking Devices to Remote Attacks

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/bluetooth-chip-hacking.html
Unpatched Oracle's VirtualBox Zero-Day Vulnerability and Exploit Details Released Online:

Read ➣ https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/virtualbox-zero-day-exploit.html

New VirtualBox Exploit Could Allow Attackers to Escape Virtual Machines and Compromise Host Operating System.
Hackers compromised popular Web Traffic Analytics service "StatCounter" to steal Bitcoins from Gate[.]io cryptocurrency exchange users
. Malicious code bundled with the widely-used StatCounter analytics script gets injected into 700,000 websites, but targeted only cryptocurrency sites and their users.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/statcounter-cryptocurrency-cyberattack.html
New Android "In-app Updates" API Lets Developers Push Updates Within Their Apps Which Users Can Install While Using Them

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/android-in-app-updates-api.html
Popular drone maker DJI left its website and mobile apps users vulnerable for 6 months that could have allowed hackers to hijack Drone account and access sensitive data—including flight records, drone's location, live video feed and photos.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/dji-drone-hack_8.html
23-Year-Old "DerpTroll" Hacker Pleads Guilty to #DDoS Attacks Against Sony, EA and Steam Gaming Companies
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He Could Face Maximum Penalty of 10 Years in Prison and Fine of $250,000

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/gaming-server-ddos-attack.html
New SDK APIs and Wi-Fi settings in Insider Preview editions suggest that support for the latest WPA3 Wi-Fi Security Protocol is coming very soon to Windows 10 operating system

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/windows-10-wpa3-wifi-security.html
Yet Another #Facebook Bug Discovered That Could Have Exposed Private Information About You and Your Friends to Attackers

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/facebook-vulnerability-hack.html

Read More and Watch Demonstration Video
It’s Patch Tuesday — 63 New Vulnerabilities (Including 0-Days) #Windows Users Need to Patch Immediately

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/microsoft-patch-tuesday-updates.html

• 12 Critical Flaws
• 49 Important—2 Publicly Disclosed & 1 Being Exploited in the Wild
• 1 Moderate
• 1 Low Flaw
7 New #Meltdown and #Spectre-type Transient Execution Attacks Discovered Affecting Intel, AMD, ARM Processors



Read More → https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/meltdown-spectre-vulnerabilities.html
Latest iPhone X, Samsung Galaxy S9, Xiaomi Mi6—all GET HACKED at Pwn2Own 2018 mobile hacking competition

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/mobile-hacking-exploits.html

White-hat hackers earned a total $325,000 bounty for finding 18 zero-day vulnerabilities
Critical flaw found in one of the popular Google #AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) plugins for #WordPress, installed by more than 100,000+ websites.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/amp-plugin-for-WordPress.html

"AMP for WP" patched version 0.9.97.20 has been released – UPDATE NOW
The real identity of notorious hacker, "Tessa88," who sold LinkedIn, Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter, VKontakte (and more high-profile) databases on Dark Web forums revealed as → Maksim Vladimirovich Donakov (Максим Владимирович Донаков) from Russia.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/tessa88-russian-hacker.html
🎉Great news for white-hat hacker... now get paid up to $40,000 for finding-and-reporting ways to hack Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or Oculus accounts.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/cybersecurity-bug-bounty.html
How just opening a webpage in Safari could have HACKED your macOS system

Details & PoC → https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/apple-macos-zeroday.html

Syndis team (with Dropbox) reported 3 flaws in Apple #macOS, which if chained together, could have allowed sites to execute malicious code on visitors' computers
A Security flaw in US Postal Service 📫 exposed 60 million users' personal data, including emails, account numbers, addresses & phone numbers

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/usps-data-breach.html

🤦🏻‍ Even after receiving responsible disclosure from researcher, USPS left the flaw unpatched for over a year
Rogue open-source developer infected the widely used NodeJS module "Event-Stream" with malicious code to steal bitcoin from wallets

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/nodejs-event-stream-module.html

With 2,000,000 weekly downloads, Event-Stream is one of the most popular NPM packages being used by millions of web apps
FBI shuts down a massive multimillion-dollar online #Adfraud operation – dubbed "3ve" – and arrested 8 cyber criminals!

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/3ve-ad-fraud-google.html

Hackers infected over 1.7 million computers and made millions of dollars from ads that were never actually viewed by real humans.
U.S. today announced charges against 2 Iranian hackers for creating & using SamSam #ransomware that extorted over $6 million from victims

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/samsam-ransomware-iranian-hackers.html

Since both operate from Iran, they haven't yet been arrested. The FBI has added them to their list of WANTED HACKERS
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Dell Resets All Customers' Passwords After Potential Security Breach

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/dell-data-breach-hacking.html

Hackers Infiltrated #Dell's Network and Attempted to Steal Users’ Account Information, Including Passwords.