Rapid7 Joins Statement On DMCA Lawsuits Against Security Tools

Rapid7 has joined a statement from members of the cybersecurity community cautioning against using Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA to suppress beneficial security tools. In the past, Rapid7 has written extensively about DMCA Sec. 1201’s impact on performing independent...

How a Resident Evil image leaked in a ransomware attack ended up in the middle of $12m copyright claim

Back in November, gaming giant Capcom suffered a ransomware attack. In its press notification, it mentioned the various types of data potentially grabbed by their attackers. Things took an ominous turn when they refused to pay the ransom, and the group behind the attack said that was the wrong...

Nintendo Sues Video-Game Pirates

Gaming giant Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against video-game piracy group ringleader Gary Bowser, a Canadian national behind Team Xecuter, which law enforcement said built and sold hacking devices that enabled consoles to play unauthorized versions of games. Download “The Evolution of Ransomware”...

IcedID Circulates Via Web Forms, Google URLs

Website contact forms and Google URLs are being used to spread the IcedID trojan, according to researchers at Microsoft. Attackers are using “contact us” forms on websites to send emails targeting organizations with trumped-up legal threats, researchers said. The messages consistently mention a...

Google Chrome 86.0.4240 V8 Remote Code Execution

/ BSD 2-Clause License Copyright c 2021, rajvardhan agarwal All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,...

Illegal Content and the Blockchain

Security researchers have recently discovered a botnet with a novel defense against takedowns. Normally, authorities can disable a botnet by taking over its command-and-control server. With nowhere to go for instructions, the botnet is rendered useless. But over the years, botnet designers have...

Act Against Geopiracy with Enhanced Proxy Detection

Widespread Use of Location Spoofing to Circumvent Territorial Content Restrictions Is the image below relatable? According to the description, the service is a VPN desktop application and proxy browser extension that helps viewers mask their physical location, circumvent censorship, and restore...

A new experience for reporting copyright or trademark infringement on Microsoft Services

The Notice of Copyright or Trademark Infringement Portal has helped protect Microsofts users and customers from intellectual property infringement across online services like Microsoft Azure, Office, Outlook, Skype, Stream, Microsoft News, Sway, Hotmail, NuGet, and Yammer. Microsofts response to...

A new experience for reporting copyright or trademark infringement on Microsoft Services

The Notice of Copyright or Trademark Infringement Portal has helped protect Microsofts users and customers from intellectual property infringement across online services like Microsoft Azure, Office, Outlook, Skype, Stream, Microsoft News, Sway, Hotmail, NuGet, and Yammer. Microsofts response to...

A new experience for reporting copyright or trademark infringement on Microsoft Services

The Notice of Copyright or Trademark Infringement Portal has helped protect Microsoft's users and customers from intellectual property infringement across online services like Microsoft Azure, Office, Outlook, Skype, Stream, Microsoft News, Sway, Hotmail, NuGet, and Yammer. Microsoft's response t...

SUSE-SU-2021:0448-1 Security update for SUSE Manager Server 4.0

This update fixes the following issues: cpu-mitigations-formula: - Handle unsupported target systems gracefully bsc1179273 - add mitigations for Xen hypervisor nutch-core: - Fix XXE injection in DmozParser CVE-2021-23901 bsc1181356 smdba: - Do not remove the database if there is no backup and dea...

A week in security (December 28 – January 3)

First off we would like to wish all our readers a happy and secure 2021! Last week on Malwarebytes Labs we presented an overview of developments in the SearchDimension hijackers, we looked at the most enticing cyberattacks of 2020, and we also looked back at the strangest cybersecurity events of...

Apple loses lawsuit against cyber security startup Corellium

By Deeba Ahmed A federal judge dismissed Apple's claim that virtualization startup Corellium was involved in copyright infringement and violated the DMCA. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Apple loses lawsuit against cyber security startup Corellium...

The Legal Risks of Security Research

Sunoo Park and Kendra Albert have published "A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Research." From a summary: Such risk extends beyond anti-hacking laws, implicating copyright law and anti-circumvention provisions DMCA §1201, electronic privacy law ECPA, and cryptography export...

'Copyright Violation' Notices Lead to Facebook 2FA Bypass

Scammers have hatched a new way to attempt to bypass two-factor authentication 2FA protections on Facebook. Cybercriminals are sending bogus copyright-violation notices with the threat of taking pages down unless the user attempts to appeal. The first step in the “appeal?” The victim is asked to...

Tackling Video Piracy Head-On

We are clearly in a "new" golden age of TV. Audiences around the world have never had so many viewing options available. This has led to a creative surge in new groundbreaking storytelling and entertainment as both broadcasters and digital giants try to maintain the loyalty of their viewers. This...

Authorities dismantle online piracy hackers network Sparks Group

By Zara Khan A criminal network of copyright and infringing hackers called the Sparks Group has been dismantled. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Authorities dismantle online piracy hackers network Sparks Group...

tbfsteel.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1268252

Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website operator about its existence...

88.99.240.100 Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1266720

Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website operator about its existence...

I Did Not Write This Book

--- Fake Book Someone published a "book" on Amazon and claimed that I wrote it! I had NOTHING to do with this. I am working with Amazon now to remove it, or at least remove my name. Stay away from this garbage! Update: Thankfully, within a day or so of this post, the true author of this work...