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Recently group of Hacker released HBO dumps which contain the Private information of the starts of the GOT: Game of Thrones. As there is no doubt that the most awaited season 7 of Game of Thrones has been started to telecast on the television channel HBO. At the same time hacker claimed that they have breached the network of the channel HBO, collect data and demand the ransom as not to publish the content of Game of Thrones on the internet. Hacker releases the one minute video on the internet to chief executive of HBO claiming that they have taken 1.5TB of data which contain upcoming videos of the season 7 of GOT, scripts of the episodes, email of the stars, also many more confidential records. As the proof of their work hacker “Mr Smith” released some of the 3.4 GB data which containing some private info of the stars, technical data of HBO’s internal network, emails, drafted scripts. The hacker demanded to pay $12 - $15M in the equivalent cryptocurrency Bitcoin. I...

SambaCry Flaws A seven year old critical remote code execution vulnerability ( CVE 2017-7494 ) in Samba networking software that allows a remote hacker to take full control of a vulnerable Linux and Unix machines has recently been discovered. R esearchers predicted that the SambaCry Flaw based attacks also have potential to spread just like  WannaCry ransomware  widely.   Kaspersky Lab  have captured a malware campaign that is exploiting SambaCry vulnerability to infect Linux computers with cryptocurrency mining software. After compromising the vulnerable machines using SambaCry vulnerability flaw, attackers execute two payloads on the targeted systems, as: INAebsGB.so — A reverse-shell that provides remote access to the attackers. cblRWuoCc.so — A backdoor that includes cryptocurrency mining utilities such as CPUminer. "Through the reverse-shell left in the system, the attackers can change the configuration of a miner already running or infect the vi...