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If certain crooks have some sort of moral compass that keeps them away from certain victims, others ditch such boundaries for the right amount of money. A perpetrator from the latter category was able to fool the charitable organization Save the Children into misdirecting close to $1million. The scam occurred in May 2017 but remained unknown to the larger audience until today. It was a matter of creating false payment documents and sending them to people authorized to make money transfers from an email account belonging to someone working for the organization. Typical business email compromise fraud Close to $1 The post Save the Children Charity Org Scammed for Almost $1 Million appeared first on MyTopPosts. […]

Attackers looking to add IoT devices to their botnets are increasingly adding vulnerability exploitation to their attack arsenal, Netscout researchers warn. Instead on just relying on a list of common or default passwords or brute-forcing attacks, they are taking advantage of the fact that IoT devices are rarely updated and manufacturers take a lot of time to push out fixes for known flaws. Currently under exploitation In November 2018, the company detected many exploitation attempts of these four bugs: CVE-2014-8361, a RCE that affects the miniigd SOAP service in Realtek SDK, publicly disclosed in April of 2015 CVE-2015-2051, a RCE The post Attackers increasingly exploiting vulnerabilities to enlarge their IoT botnets appeared first on MyTopPosts. […]