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Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 has identified attacks with a new custom Remote Access Trojan (RAT) called UBoatRAT. The initial version of the RAT, found in May of 2017, was simple HTTP backdoor that uses a public blog service in Hong Kong and a compromised web server in Japan for command and control. The developer soon added various new features to the code and released an updated version in June. The attacks with the latest variants we found in September have following characteristics.

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Das Amtsgericht Bad Hersfeld hat ein umstrittenes WhatsApp-Urteil gefällt. Nach Ansicht der Richter begeht jeder Nutzer des Messengers, dadurch dass er die persönlichen Daten Dritter ohne Zustimmung weitergibt, einen Rechtsverstoß. In letzter Konsequenz könnten Abmahnungen, Unterlassungsklagen und Schadenersatzansprüche entstehen.

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Google has been caught collecting location data on every Android device owner since the beginning of this year (that’s for the past 11 months)—even when location services are entirely disabled, according to an investigation conducted by Quartz.

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Auch das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik warnt vor dem Firmware-Risiko in vielen Desktop-PCs, Notebooks und Servern, aber manche Hersteller reagieren langsam.

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Macro-based self-replicating malware, which basically allows a macro to write more macros, is not new among hackers, but to prevent such threats, Microsoft has already introduced a security mechanism in MS Office that by default limits this functionality.

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