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Nasty session stealing hole filled in WordPress All in One SEO plugin http://ift.tt/29A2LqG WordPress has patched a hole in its popular All in One search engine optimisation plugin, a tool that’s been downloaded by some 30 million users and is used on a million sites. Flaws exists in the Bot Blocker component which can be…

Aussie researcher claims ‘Antminer’ bitcoin boxen can be broken http://ift.tt/29Ah8Iz Australian security researcher Tim Noise says scores of popular Antmine Bitcoin mining devices could be commandeered. Noise demonstrated how a vulnerability in the configuration of the open source mining program CGminer running on an Antminer box can be abused to redirect the efforts of massive…

‘Patchwork’ APT Detected at Last http://ift.tt/29LQ88V One fresh APT (advanced persistent threat) called "Patchwork" is a sudden eruption on the malware landscape. The threat, says Cymmetria, has infected more than 2,500 users from the time it first appeared during December 2015. Nevertheless, it’s felt that its operations occurred even way back in 2014. Threat Intel…

New Edition of Kovter Malicious Program Pretends to be Firefox Update http://ift.tt/29KwFIB The Kovter group of malicious programs now has one fresh variant. This variant pretends to be Firefox update while utilizes one genuine certificate. Users who proceed to download the update would actually be taking down Kovter. The discoverer of this variant is Barkly…

SWIFT Reinforces Security To Mitigate Future Malicious Episodes http://ift.tt/29LQegv Post the security breach at Bangladesh central bank in February, Global bank messaging system Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) launched an additional step to cushion its defenses against malicious threats, hackers after criminals sent fraudulent payment instructions across its network. Threat Intel via CERT-EU…