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Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) published a warning on their website regarding the temporary suspension of email and have asked people to contact them over text or phone. The media reported that threat actors were able to gain unauthorized access to the NRA’s network.

A Dutch cyber Security researcher reviled that he logged into presidents trumps personal Twitter account. The password turned out to be MAGA2020 which is referred to Trump’s campaign Making America Great Again.

Rafay Baloch a Pakistani cybersecurity researcher discovered this vulnerability which affects mobile browsers such as Apple Safari and Opera Touch. The malware leaves an open door for spear-phishing attacks and malware delivery.

The researchers have found out that the Emotet operators are using a new template which masquerades to be a Microsoft word update which provides more additional features to its users. When the malware gets installed emote will infect the system with ransomware and uses it to send spam emails.

Cybersecurity researchers from Kaspersky said that the malware is believed to be created by Pakistani hacker groups. The malware is now able to capture device data, contact lists, e-mail addresses, and call and text logs and transmit them to an attacker-controlled server.

Microsoft has detected the latest version of the malware which uses call notification to gain the attention of the user. The interesting thing is this malware does not encrypt the files of the victim but block access to the devices. The analysts say that this ransomware is highly obfuscated.

Security researchers from Google have issued a warning about a new Bluetooth vulnerability that affects Linux-based devises. The vulnerability allows nearby unauthenticated devices to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Microsoft has released the patch for October. The update has fixed 87 vulnerabilities, out of which 11 are considered as critical 75 as important and 1 as moderate.

Security researchers from Cisco Talos have detected that the cryptocurrency miners are targeting Government, Retail and Technology sectors using various methods. They spread malware through a network by sending infected RTF files by using email, psexec, WMI, and SMB exploits.

Chowbus was hacked and customer information of about 400k customers were leaked online. The leaked information included customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, and mailing addresses.

Cybersecurity researchers from Microsoft have discovered a new Ransomware that targets Android devices. The malware comes with new features which include open-source machine learning and evading detection against several security solutions.

Security researches have been testing the Apple online services for three months and they have found 55 vulnerabilities. Out of these 55 vulnerabilities 11 of them are considered as Critical. Hackers could hijack the user’s iCloud account and steal all the photos, calendar information, videos, and documents. At the same time, threat actors could forward the malware to all of the victim’s contacts.

Researchers at Juniper Threat Labs found that threat actor named as “Priority” is using leaked Mirai source code to develop theirs on the version of the malware. The malware is based on 2 variants of the Mirai malware.

The new spyware comes with the facility to read notifications from messaging apps, call recording and screen recording, and dismissing notifications from built-in Android security apps.

The hospital informed that the malware attack has affected all 250 of its US facilities and the restoration is under process. The hospital works have informed that electronic medical records systems were not affected.

The vulnerability was discovered in two of the popular industrial Remote Access System. This can be exploited by threat actors to ban access, hack into networks, tamper with data, and steal sensitive data of the organization.