Breaking — U.S. Justice Department today announced charges against a Chinese hacker and his team member for their alleged role in 2015 massive data breach at health insurance giant Anthem and three other unnamed American companies.

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/chinese-hacker-anthem-breach.html

\U.S. Homeland Security and FBI have issued joint alert on ELECTRICFISH tunneling tool that North Korean hackers have actively been using to exfiltrate data from compromised systems

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/north-korean-hacking-tool.html

U.S. Justice Department announces charges against 9 individuals in a massive "SIM Swapping" case — 6 of which are hackers & other 3 are former employees of mobile operators who allegedly helped them steal roughly $2.5 million worth of cryptocurrency

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/sim-swapping-hacking.html

Hackers found exploiting a critical 0-day vulnerability (CVE-2019-3568) in WhatsApp audio calling feature to secretly install spyware on targeted phones just by calling them.

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/hack-whatsapp-vulnerability.html

Update your WhatsApp for Android, iOS, Tizen, Windows Phone immediately.

Secure Boot (TAm) bypass flaw — dubbed "ThrAngryCat" or 😾😾😾, CVE-2019-1649 — affecting millions of Cisco devices could allow remote attackers to implant persistent backdoors on vulnerable routers, switches and firewall devices.

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/cisco-secure-boot-bypass.html

Adobe Releases May 2019 Software Security Updates to Patch Dozens of Critical and Important Flaws in Adobe Flash Player, Acrobat Reader, and Media Encoder

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/adobe-software-updates.html

Microsoft releases May 2019 security updates to patch a critical "Wormable Flaw" [CVE-2019-0708] and 78 other CVE-listed vulnerabilities in its software and Windows operating systems

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/microsoft-security-updates.html

MDS Attacks [ZombieLoad, RIDL, and Fallout] — A new class of Spectre-style flaws discovered in #Intel CPUs that affects almost every processor since 2011, allowing attackers to steal sensitive data across processes, privilege boundaries and Hyperthreads.

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/intel-processor-vulnerabilities.html

Google’s Bluetooth-compatible Titan Security Keys Can Be Hijacked by Nearby Hackers — But Don't Worry, Users Can Apply for Free Replacement from Google

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/google-titan-security-key.html

Breaking — International Law Enforcement agencies have dismantled a major cybercrime network behind GozNym banking #malware that's responsible for stealing nearly $100 million from over 41,000 victims

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/GozNym-banking-malware.html

10 members indicted across 5 Countries.

Hacker breaks into Stack Overflow, the largest Q&A site for programmers.

Read More ⮞ https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/stack-overflow-databreach.html

Q— Have my account password, profile data, or online activity on Stack Overflow also been compromised?

A— There is no evidence that users’ data was accessed.

Report reveals TeamViewer, one of the most popular remote desktop software companies, was breached by Chinese hackers in 2016.

Read More: https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/teamviewer-software-hacked.html

US-China Trade War Becomes Tech War.

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/google-intel-huawei.html

Some Core Elastic Stack Security Features Are Now Available To Free Users As Well

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/elastic-stack-security.html

Hacker publishes 0-day exploit for a new unpatched LPE vulnerability in Windows 10 operating system

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/windows-zero-day-vulnerability.html

Oops! Google "Mistakenly" Stored G Suite Enterprise Users' Passwords in Plain-Text for 14 Years

Read More >> https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/google-gsuite-plaintext-password.html

NEW: Hacker publicly disclosed 0-day exploits for total 3 new unpatched Microsoft vulnerabilities in less than 24-hours

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/microsoft-zero-day-vulnerability.html

🎉 Woohoo! Great news for privacy-focused users.

Tor Browser for Android released — First stable version has arrived on Google Play Store for anyone to download for free.

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/tor-browser-for-android.html

U.S. Charges #WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with 17 new counts on violation of the Espionage Act by publishing classified information.

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/wikileaks-assange-espionage.html

He could face decades in the prison if convicted.

Nearly 1 million Windows computers are still unpatched and have been found vulnerable to the critical "Wormable" BlueKeep RDP vulnerability—latest mass Internet scan confirms

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/bluekeep-rdp-vulnerability.html