Security: Pear, GandCrab, 'Smart' Things, DNS and FUD at CBS (ZDNet)

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If you installed PEAR PHP in the last 6 months, you may be infected
The officials didn’t say when the [compromise] of their Web server occurred or precisely what the malicious version of go-pear.phar did to infected systems. Initial indications, however, look serious. For starters, the advice applies to anyone who has downloaded the package manager in the past six months. That suggests the [compromise] may have occurred in the timeframe of last July, and no one noticed either it or the tainted download until this week.
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GandCrab ransomware and Ursnif virus spreading via MS Word macros
Security researchers have discovered two separate malware campaigns, one of which is distributing the Ursnif data-stealing trojan and the GandCrab ransomware in the wild, whereas the second one is only infecting victims with Ursnif malware.
Though both malware campaigns appear to be a work of two separate cybercriminal groups, we find many similarities in them. Both attacks start from phishing emails containing an attached Microsoft Word document embedded with malicious macros and then uses Powershell to deliver fileless malware.
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WA mother's warning after FIFO smart baby monitor logs into stranger's nursery
The device allows a user to view their child on their smart phone from anywhere in the world using a QR scan code and generic password.
However Ms Day said she was concerned about the security around the product, after it logged her into another stranger's nursery.
"I logged in through what the instructions told me to and it wasn't my daughters bedroom, it was somebody else's bedroom," she said.
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DHS issues security alert about recent DNS hijacking attacks
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Internet experiment goes wrong, takes down a bunch of Linux routers [Ed: Drama queen Cimpanu, hired by CBS for his provocative nonsense, frames as "Linux" something that isn't about Linux]
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Heads up: Debian's package manager is APT for root-level malware injection... Fix out now to thwart MITM hijacks
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