MikroTik Routers Are Under Massive Attack — Hackers Infect Over 200,000 Routers to Inject Cryptocurrency Mining Scripts

https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/mikrotik-router-hacking.html …

Popular System Optimization Tool – #CCleaner – Introduces Active Monitoring Feature and User Data Collection With No Way to Opt-Out

https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/ccleaner-software-download.html

Reddit Got Hacked – Here's Everything You Need to Know

https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/hack-reddit-account.html …

Attacker Bypasses Two-Factor Authentication for Employees' Accounts and Stole Users’ Private Messages, Emails, and Hashed Passwords

Fortnite APK for Android will be available only on the company's website instead of Google Play Store
. The move raises security concerns over encouraging millions of users to install (via sideloading) a 3rd-party app outside of the official app store


https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/fortnite-android-apk-download.html

Computer Virus Attack Hits #iPhone Chip Supplier—Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Forcing It to Shut Down Several Chip-Fabrication Factories.

TSMC Scrambles to Resume Production and Expects 250 Million Loss in Third Quarter Revenue.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/tsmc-iphone-computer-virus.html

Android P (Android 9.0) now stands for "Android Pie" — 5 best new features you should check out:

Google officially launches Android Pie for Pixel phones today; Here's how to download it now.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/android-9-pie.html

Facebook Releases "Fizz" — A New Open Source #TLS 1.3 Implementation Library Designed For High Performance and Security

https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/fizz-tls-ssl-library.html …

Facebook Also Uses Fizz to Secure Trillions of Connections Everyday

Apple Chip Maker TSMC Blames #WannaCry Ransomware Attack for Production Halt

https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/tsmc-wannacry-ransomware-attack.html

Hacker Leaked #Snapchat Source Code On GitHub

https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/snapchat-hack-source-code.html

—by @Swati_THN

New WhatsApp vulnerabilities could let malicious users modify private/group chats and spread fake news or misinformation. Check out the video demonstration to learn how the 3 "unpatched attacks" work!

https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/whatsapp-modify-chat-fake-news.html

Security researchers release open source—Social Mapper—facial recognition tool that tracks people across social media networks, including: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, VKontakte, Weibo & Douban.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/social-mapper-osint.html

Researchers Developed AI-Powered (Artificial Intelligence) Stealthy "DeepLocker" Malware to Demonstrate Future Threats

https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/artificial-intelligence-malware.html

Flaws in Pre-Installed Apps Expose Millions of Android Devices to Hackers. Affected Android handsets are from Asus, ZTE, LG, Essential, Vivo, Sony, Nokia, Oppo, Sky, Leagoo, Plum, Orbic, MXQ, Doogee, Coolpad, and Alcatel.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/android-app-hack.html

Google is tracking of billions of Android, iPhone users’ minute-by-minute locations without permissions—even with 'Location History' turned off, report revealed

https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/google-mobile-location-tracking.html

Researchers introduce "Man-in-the-Disk" — a new attack vector that potentially expands the Android attack surface for millions of devices
. Using it against vulnerable apps could allow attackers to silently infect phones with malicious apps or launch DoS attacks

https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/man-in-the-disk-android-hack.html

Remote hackers can compromise your entire network just by sending you a Fax message
. Check out video demonstration and learn how the 'Faxploit' attack works.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/hack-printer-fax-machine.html

Adobe releases August 2018 #security updates to patch a total of 11 vulnerabilities in its #FlashPlayer, Creative Cloud Desktop Application, #Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Acrobat and Reader.

PATCH NOW! https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/adobe-patch-updates.html

Microsoft releases security patch updates for a total 60 vulnerabilities, of which 19 are rated as critical and 39 important.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/microsoft-patch-updates.html

August 2018 Patch Tuesday also addresses two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities that are under active attack.

Foreshadow Attacks — Three new speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities discovered in Intel CPUs. In addition to the data stored in the OS kernel memory, new flaws could also reveal sensitive information from VMs, hypervisors and SMM memory.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/foreshadow-intel-processor-vulnerability.html

Former Microsoft Engineer has been sentenced to 18-months in prison and three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to money laundering charges in connection with the Reveton ransomware attacks.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/microsoft-reveton-ransomware.html

Watch Out! Cybercriminals using a new 'simple yet effective' technique to bypass #Microsoft Office 365 anti-phishing protections

https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/microsoft-office365-phishing.html