---
tags:
- sentence-transformers
- sentence-similarity
- feature-extraction
- generated_from_trainer
- dataset_size:3742
- loss:SoftmaxLoss
base_model: sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2
widget:
- source_sentence: 'As the year draws to a close, we have seen the number of emerging
threats like advance phishing attacks from the Syrian Electronic Army, financial
malware and exploit kits, Cryptolocker ransomware infections, massive Bitcoin
theft, extensive privacy breach from NSA and many more.
The financial malware''s were the most popular threat this year. Money is always
a perfect motivation for attackers and cyber criminals who are continually targeting
financial institutions.
On Tuesday, Antivirus firm Symantec has released a Threat report, called "The
State of Financial Trojans: 2013", which revealed that over 1,400 financial institutions
have been targeted and compromised millions of computers around the globe and
the most targeted banks are in the US with 71.5% of all analyzed Trojans.
Financial institutions have been fighting against malware for the last ten years
to protect their customers and online transactions from threat. Over the time
the attackers adapted to these countermeasures and sophisticated banking Trojans
began to emerge.
According to the report, the number of infections of the most common financial
Trojans grew to 337 percent in the first nine months of 2013. Nearly 1,500 institutions
in 88 countries were potential targets during 2013.
The financial fraud marketplace is also increasingly organized and Cyber criminals
are using advanced Trojans to commit large scale attacks.
Attackers of all skill levels can enter the arena of financial fraud, as the underground
marketplace is a service industry that provides an abundance of resources. Those
who lack expertise can simply purchase what they need. For as little as $100,
an attacker can avail of a leaked Zeus or Spyeye equipped with Web-injects.
The modern financial Trojan is extremely flexible, supporting a range of functionality
designed to facilitate fraudulent transactions across a variety of services.
Two dominant attack strategies are:
Focused attack: This approach suits attackers with limited resources but also
scales well to larger operations. If the distribution is accurate and the target
institution has a sizeable client base, a focused attack can provide an adequate
supply of targets. Shylock, Bebloh and Tilon all use this approach exclusively.
Broad strokes: In this attack strategy, Trojans are set to target large numbers
of institutions. Tilon, Cridex, and Gameover adopt these tactics and Zeus also
uses this approach in its default configuration.
According to Symantec, the main reason for the surge is weak authentication practices:
Unfortunately, in many situations, security implementations adopted by financial
institutions are inadequate to defend against the modern financial Trojan. Institutions
are starting to adopt strong security measures like chipTAN, but the adoption
rate is slow. Institutions that persist with weaker security measures will continue
to be exploited by attackers.
They need to maintain constant vigilance, apply software updates, maintain an
awareness of new threats and deploy complementary security solutions that can
defend against evolving malware attacks.
'
sentences:
- 'As the year draws to a close, we have seen the number of emerging threats like
advance phishing attacks from the Syrian Electronic Army, financial malware and
exploit kits, Cryptolocker ransomware infections, massive Bitcoin theft, extensive
privacy breach from NSA and many more.
The financial malware''s were the most popular threat this year. Money is always
a perfect motivation for attackers and cyber criminals who are continually targeting
financial institutions.
On Tuesday, Antivirus firm Symantec has released a Threat report, called "The
State of Financial Trojans: 2013", which revealed that over 1,400 financial institutions
have been targeted and compromised millions of computers around the globe and
the most targeted banks are in the US with 71.5% of all analyzed Trojans.
Financial institutions have been fighting against malware for the last ten years
to protect their customers and online transactions from threat. Over the time
the attackers adapted to these countermeasures and sophisticated banking Trojans
began to emerge.
According to the report, the number of infections of the most common financial
Trojans grew to 337 percent in the first nine months of 2013. Nearly 1,500 institutions
in 88 countries were potential targets during 2013.
The financial fraud marketplace is also increasingly organized and Cyber criminals
are using advanced Trojans to commit large scale attacks.
Attackers of all skill levels can enter the arena of financial fraud, as the underground
marketplace is a service industry that provides an abundance of resources. Those
who lack expertise can simply purchase what they need. For as little as $100,
an attacker can avail of a leaked Zeus or Spyeye equipped with Web-injects.
The modern financial Trojan is extremely flexible, supporting a range of functionality
designed to facilitate fraudulent transactions across a variety of services.
Two dominant attack strategies are:
Focused attack: This approach suits attackers with limited resources but also
scales well to larger operations. If the distribution is accurate and the target
institution has a sizeable client base, a focused attack can provide an adequate
supply of targets. Shylock, Bebloh and Tilon all use this approach exclusively.
Broad strokes: In this attack strategy, Trojans are set to target large numbers
of institutions. Tilon, Cridex, and Gameover adopt these tactics and Zeus also
uses this approach in its default configuration.
According to Symantec, the main reason for the surge is weak authentication practices:
Unfortunately, in many situations, security implementations adopted by financial
institutions are inadequate to defend against the modern financial Trojan. Institutions
are starting to adopt strong security measures like chipTAN, but the adoption
rate is slow. Institutions that persist with weaker security measures will continue
to be exploited by attackers.
They need to maintain constant vigilance, apply software updates, maintain an
awareness of new threats and deploy complementary security solutions that can
defend against evolving malware attacks.
'
- 'While Windows users are currently in fear of getting their systems hijacked by
the WannaCry ransomware outbreak, Apple users are sitting relaxed, thinking that
malware attacks are something that happens to Windows users, and not Apple.
But you are mistaken – Apple products are also not immune to the hack attacks
and malware infections, as an ebook can hack your Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
Apple on Monday pushed out software updates for iOS, macOS, Safari, tvOS, iCloud,
iTunes, and watchOS to fix a total of 67 unique security vulnerabilities, many
of which allows attackers to perform remote code execution on an affected system.
iOS is 10.3.2 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod
Apple''s mobile operating system iOS 10.3.2 for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
addresses 41 security flaws, 23 of which resides in WebKit, including 17 remote
code execution and 5 cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.
Besides this, iOS 10.3.2 also addresses a pair of flaws in iBooks for iOS (CVE-2017-2497,
CVE-2017-6981) that could allow e-books to open arbitrary websites and execute
malicious code with root privileges.
Other flaws addressed in iOS 10.3.2 include a memory corruption issue in AVE Video
Encoder that could allow a malicious application to gain kernel-level privileges,
and a certificate validation issue in the certificate trust policy for handling
of untrusted certificates.
Apple users can install iOS 10.3.2 by connecting their iOS devices to iTunes or
downloading it directly by going to the Settings → General → Software Update.
macOS Sierra 10.12.5 for El Capitan and Yosemite
Apple''s Mac operating system macOS Sierra 10.12.5 addresses a total of 37 vulnerabilities,
including a pair of bugs in iBook that allow the execution of arbitrary code with
root privileges, and a separate bug in iBook that allows an application to escape
its secure sandbox.
Other flaws addressed in macOS Sierra 10.12.5 include a Wi-Fi networking issue
that allows the theft of network credentials, elevation of privilege bugs in both
the Intel and Nvidia graphics drivers, and four different arbitrary code execution
flaws in SQLite.
Mac users can download the update through the App Store → Updates. Alternatively,
macOS Sierra users can be download Sierra 10.12.5 as a stand-alone update, OS
X El Capitan users can download the update here, and OS X Yosemite users can get
the security update here.
Safari 10.1.1 for Apple Browser
Safari 10.1.1 addresses a total of 26 security issues, 23 of which resides in
WebKit, many of which are also patched in the iOS 10.3.2.
Rest three vulnerabilities are patched in the Safari browser itself.
The Safari 10.1.1 update can be downloaded by going to the App Store → Updates
on El Capitan and Yosemite systems.
watchOS 3.2.2 for Apple Watch
Apple Watch users should install watchOS 3.2.2 that patches a total of 12 security
vulnerabilities, four of which could be used by attackers to execute remote code
execution on the affected device.
Users of Apple Watch can download watchOS 3.2.2 by connecting their watch to its
charger, and opening the Apple Watch app → My Watch tab → General → Software Update
on their iPhone.
tvOS 10.2.1 for Apple TV
Apple has also released tvOS 10.2.1 to patch a total of 23 vulnerabilities, 12
of which resides in WebKit engine that could allow an attacker to perform cross-site
scripting and remote code execution attacks on a target device.
The tvOS 10.2.1 update can be downloaded directly from the Apple TV by going to
Settings → System → Update Software.
iTunes 12.6.1 for Windows and iCloud for Windows 6.2.1
Meanwhile, Apple also released patches for Windows users using iTunes and iCloud.
Both iTunes 12.6.1 and iCloud 6.2.1 patches a single remote code execution bug
in WebKit for Windows 7 and later.
Apple users are recommended to update all their operating systems for Apple products
and Safari as soon as possible before cyber criminals exploited them. Patches
are available through automatic updates.
'
- 'A really bad year for the world''s second-largest email service provider, Yahoo
Mail! The company announced today, ''we identified a coordinated effort to gain
unauthorized access to Yahoo Mail accounts'', user names and passwords of its
email customers have been stolen and are used to access multiple accounts.
Yahoo did not say how many accounts have been affected, and neither they are sure
about the source of the leaked users'' credentials. It appears to have come from
a third party database being compromised, and not an infiltration of Yahoo''s
own servers.
"We have no evidence that they were obtained directly from Yahoo''s systems. Our
ongoing investigation shows that malicious computer software used the list of
usernames and passwords to access Yahoo Mail accounts. The information sought
in the attack seems to be names and email addresses from the affected accounts''
most recent sent emails."
For now, Yahoo is taking proactive actions to protect their affected users, "We
are resetting passwords on impacted accounts and we are using second sign-in verification
to allow users to re-secure their accounts. Impacted users will be prompted (if
not, already) to change their password and may receive an email notification or
an SMS text if they have added a mobile number to their account."
People frequently use the same passwords on multiple accounts, so possibly hackers
are brute-forcing Yahoo accounts with the user credentials stolen from other data
breaches.
Yahoo users can prevent account hijacks by using a strong and unique password.
You can use ''Random strong password generator'' feature of DuckDuckGo search
engine to get a unique & strong password.
Users are also recommended to enable two-factor authentication, which requires
a code texted to the legitimate user''s mobile phone whenever a login attempt
is made from a new computer.
Yahoo! was hacked in July 2012, with attackers stealing 450,000 email addresses
and passwords from a Yahoo! contributor network.
Readers can also download two free Whitepaper related to the Email and account
security:
Cloud-Based Email Archiving
Email Data Loss Prevention
Well, Yahoo is now working with federal law enforcement as a part of its investigation.
'
- source_sentence: 'Security researchers have spotted a new malware campaign in the
wild that spreads an advanced botnet malware by leveraging at least three recently
disclosed vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office.
Dubbed Zyklon, the fully-featured malware has resurfaced after almost two years
and primarily found targeting telecommunications, insurance and financial services.
Active since early 2016, Zyklon is an HTTP botnet malware that communicates with
its command-and-control servers over Tor anonymising network and allows attackers
to remotely steal keylogs, sensitive data, like passwords stored in web browsers
and email clients.
Zyklon malware is also capable of executing additional plugins, including secretly
using infected systems for DDoS attacks and cryptocurrency mining.
Different versions of the Zyklon malware has previously been found being advertised
on a popular underground marketplace for $75 (normal build) and $125 ( Tor-enabled
build).
According to a recently published report by FireEye, the attackers behind the
campaign are leveraging three following vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that
execute a PowerShell script on the targeted computers to download the final payload
from its C&C server.
1) .NET Framework RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2017-8759)—this remote code execution
vulnerability exists when Microsoft .NET Framework processes untrusted input,
allowing an attacker to take control of an affected system by tricking victims
into opening a specially crafted malicious document file sent over an email. Microsoft
already released a security patch for this flaw in September updates.
2) Microsoft Office RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882)—it''s a 17-year-old memory
corruption flaw that Microsoft patched in November patch update allows a remote
attacker to execute malicious code on the targeted systems without requiring any
user interaction after opening a malicious document.
3) Dynamic Data Exchange Protocol (DDE Exploit)—this technique allows attackers
to leverage a built-in feature of Microsoft Office, called DDE, to perform code
execution on the targeted device without requiring Macros to be enabled or memory
corruption.
As explained by the researchers, attackers are actively exploiting these three
vulnerabilities to deliver Zyklon malware using spear phishing emails, which typically
arrives with an attached ZIP file containing a malicious Office doc file.
Once opened, the malicious doc file equipped with one of these vulnerabilities
immediately runs a PowerShell script, which eventually downloads the final payload,
i.e., Zyklon HTTP malware, onto the infected computer.
"In all these techniques, the same domain is used to download the next level payload
(Pause.ps1), which is another PowerShell script that is Base64 encoded," the FireEye
researchers said.
"The Pause.ps1 script is responsible for resolving the APIs required for code
injection. It also contains the injectable shellcode."
"The injected code is responsible for downloading the final payload from the server.
The final stage payload is a PE executable compiled with .Net framework."
Interestingly, the PowerShell script connects to a dotless IP address (example:
https://3627732942) to download the final payload.
What is Dotless IP Address? If you are unaware, dotless IP addresses, sometimes
referred as ''Decimal Address,'' are decimal values of IPv4 addresses (represented
as dotted-quad notation). Almost all modern web browsers resolve decimal IP address
to its equivalent IPV4 address when opened with "https://" following the decimal
value.
For example, Google''s IP address 216.58.207.206 can also be represented as https://3627732942
in decimal values (Try this online converter).
The best way to protect yourself and your organisation from such malware attacks
are always to be suspicious of any uninvited document sent via an email and never
click on links inside those documents unless adequately verifying the source.
Most importantly, always keep your software and systems up-to-date, as threat
actors incorporate recently discovered, but patched, vulnerabilities in popular
software—Microsoft Office, in this case—to increase the potential for successful
infections.
'
sentences:
- 'India-linked highly targeted mobile malware campaign, first unveiled two weeks
ago, has been found to be part of a broader campaign targeting multiple platforms,
including windows devices and possibly Android as well.
As reported in our previous article, earlier this month researchers at Talos threat
intelligence unit discovered a group of Indian hackers abusing mobile device management
(MDM) service to hijack and spy on a few targeted iPhone users in India.
Operating since August 2015, the attackers have been found abusing MDM service
to remotely install malicious versions of legitimate apps, including Telegram,
WhatsApp, and PrayTime, onto targeted iPhones.
These modified apps have been designed to secretly spy on iOS users, and steal
their real-time location, SMS, contacts, photos and private messages from third-party
chatting applications.
During their ongoing investigation, Talos researchers identified a new MDM infrastructure
and several malicious binaries – designed to target victims running Microsoft
Windows operating systems – hosted on the same infrastructure used in previous
campaigns.
Ios-update-whatsapp[.]com (new)
Wpitcher[.]com
Ios-certificate-update.com
"We know that the MDM and the Windows services were up and running on the same
C2 server in May 2018," researchers said in a blog post published today.
"Some of the C2 servers are still up and running at this time. The Apache setup
is very specific, and perfectly matched the Apache setup of the malicious IPA
apps."
Possible Connections with "Bahamut Hacking Group"
Besides this, researchers also found some potential similarities that link this
campaign with an old hacking group, dubbed "Bahamut," an advanced threat actor
who was previously targeting Android devices using similar MDM technique as used
in the latest iOS malware campaign.
The newly identified MDM infrastructure, which was created in January 2018, and
used from January to March of this year, targeted two Indian devices and one located
in Qatar with a British phone number.
According to the researchers, Bahamut also targeted similar Qatar-based individuals
during their Android malware campaign, as detailed by Bellingcat in a blog post.
"Bahamut shared a domain name with one of the malicious iOS applications mentioned
in our previous post," researchers said.
"The new MDM platform we identified has similar victimology with Middle Eastern
targets, namely Qatar, using a U.K. mobile number issued from LycaMobile. Bahamut
targeted similar Qatar-based individuals during their campaign."
Apart from distributing modified Telegram and WhatsApp apps with malicious functionalities,
the newly-identified server also distributes modified versions of Safari browser
and IMO video chatting app to steal more personal information on victims.
Attackers Using Malicious Safari Browser to Steal Login Credentials
According to the researchers, the malicious Safari browser has been pre-configured
to automatically exfiltrate the username and the password of the users for a variety
of other web services, Yahoo, Rediff, Amazon, Google, Reddit, Baidu, ProtonMail,
Zoho, Tutanota and more.
"The malware continuously monitors a web page, seeking out the HTML form fields
that hold the username and password as the user types them in to steal credentials.
The names of the inspected HTML fields are embedded into the app alongside the
domain names," the researchers said.
The malicious browser contains three malicious plugins—Add Bookmark, Add To Favourites,
and Add to Reading List—that just like the other apps, send stolen data to a remote
attacker-controlled server.
At this time, it''s unclear who is behind the campaign, who was targeted in the
campaign, and what were the motives behind the attack, but the technical elements
suggest the attackers are operating from India, and are well-funded.
Researchers said that those infected with this kind of malware need to enroll
their devices, which means "they should be on the lookout at all times to avoid
accidental enrollment."
The best way to avoid being a victim to such attacks is to always download apps
from official app store.
'
- 'Security researchers have spotted a new malware campaign in the wild that spreads
an advanced botnet malware by leveraging at least three recently disclosed vulnerabilities
in Microsoft Office.
Dubbed Zyklon, the fully-featured malware has resurfaced after almost two years
and primarily found targeting telecommunications, insurance and financial services.
Active since early 2016, Zyklon is an HTTP botnet malware that communicates with
its command-and-control servers over Tor anonymising network and allows attackers
to remotely steal keylogs, sensitive data, like passwords stored in web browsers
and email clients.
Zyklon malware is also capable of executing additional plugins, including secretly
using infected systems for DDoS attacks and cryptocurrency mining.
Different versions of the Zyklon malware has previously been found being advertised
on a popular underground marketplace for $75 (normal build) and $125 ( Tor-enabled
build).
According to a recently published report by FireEye, the attackers behind the
campaign are leveraging three following vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that
execute a PowerShell script on the targeted computers to download the final payload
from its C&C server.
1) .NET Framework RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2017-8759)—this remote code execution
vulnerability exists when Microsoft .NET Framework processes untrusted input,
allowing an attacker to take control of an affected system by tricking victims
into opening a specially crafted malicious document file sent over an email. Microsoft
already released a security patch for this flaw in September updates.
2) Microsoft Office RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882)—it''s a 17-year-old memory
corruption flaw that Microsoft patched in November patch update allows a remote
attacker to execute malicious code on the targeted systems without requiring any
user interaction after opening a malicious document.
3) Dynamic Data Exchange Protocol (DDE Exploit)—this technique allows attackers
to leverage a built-in feature of Microsoft Office, called DDE, to perform code
execution on the targeted device without requiring Macros to be enabled or memory
corruption.
As explained by the researchers, attackers are actively exploiting these three
vulnerabilities to deliver Zyklon malware using spear phishing emails, which typically
arrives with an attached ZIP file containing a malicious Office doc file.
Once opened, the malicious doc file equipped with one of these vulnerabilities
immediately runs a PowerShell script, which eventually downloads the final payload,
i.e., Zyklon HTTP malware, onto the infected computer.
"In all these techniques, the same domain is used to download the next level payload
(Pause.ps1), which is another PowerShell script that is Base64 encoded," the FireEye
researchers said.
"The Pause.ps1 script is responsible for resolving the APIs required for code
injection. It also contains the injectable shellcode."
"The injected code is responsible for downloading the final payload from the server.
The final stage payload is a PE executable compiled with .Net framework."
Interestingly, the PowerShell script connects to a dotless IP address (example:
https://3627732942) to download the final payload.
What is Dotless IP Address? If you are unaware, dotless IP addresses, sometimes
referred as ''Decimal Address,'' are decimal values of IPv4 addresses (represented
as dotted-quad notation). Almost all modern web browsers resolve decimal IP address
to its equivalent IPV4 address when opened with "https://" following the decimal
value.
For example, Google''s IP address 216.58.207.206 can also be represented as https://3627732942
in decimal values (Try this online converter).
The best way to protect yourself and your organisation from such malware attacks
are always to be suspicious of any uninvited document sent via an email and never
click on links inside those documents unless adequately verifying the source.
Most importantly, always keep your software and systems up-to-date, as threat
actors incorporate recently discovered, but patched, vulnerabilities in popular
software—Microsoft Office, in this case—to increase the potential for successful
infections.
'
- 'Attention WordPress users!
Your website could easily get hacked if you are using "Ultimate Addons for Beaver
Builder," or "Ultimate Addons for Elementor" and haven''t recently updated them
to the latest available versions.
Security researchers have discovered a critical yet easy-to-exploit authentication
bypass vulnerability in both widely-used premium WordPress plugins that could
allow remote attackers to gain administrative access to sites without requiring
any password.
What''s more worrisome is that opportunistic attackers have already started exploiting
this vulnerability in the wild within 2 days of its discovery in order to compromise
vulnerable WordPress websites and install a malicious backdoor for later access.
Both vulnerable plugins, made by software development company Brainstorm Force,
are currently powering over hundreds of thousands of WordPress websites using
Elementor and Beaver Builder frameworks, helping website admins and designers
extend the functionality of their websites with more widgets, modules, page templates.
Discovered by researchers at web security service MalCare, the vulnerability resides
in the way both plugins let WordPress account holders, including administrators,
authenticate via Facebook and Google login mechanisms.
Image credit: WebARX
According to the vulnerability''s advisory, due to lack of checks in the authentication
method when a user login via Facebook or Google, vulnerable plugins can be tricked
into allowing malicious users to login as any other targeted user without requiring
any password.
"However, the Facebook and Google authentication methods did not verify the token
returned by Facebook and Google, and since they don''t require a password, there
was no password check," explained WebARX researchers, who also analysed the flaw
and confirmed its active exploitation.
"To exploit the vulnerability, the hacker needs to use the email ID of an admin
user of the site. In most cases, this information can be retrieved fairly easily,"
MalCare said.
In an email to The Hacker News, WebARX confirmed that attackers are abusing this
flaw to install a fake SEO stats plugin after uploading a tmp.zip file on the
targeted WordPress server, which eventually drops a wp-xmlrpc.php backdoor file
to the root directory of the vulnerable site.
MalCare discovered this vulnerability on Wednesday that affects below-listed versions
of the plugins and reported it to the developers on the same day, who then quickly
addressed the issue and released patched versions of both within just 7 hours.
Ultimate Addons for Elementor <= 1.20.0
Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder <= 1.24.0
The authentication bypass vulnerability has been patched with the release of "Ultimate
Addons for Elementor version 1.20.1" and "Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder version
1.24.1," which affected websites are highly recommended to install as soon as
possible.
'
- source_sentence: 'Exclusive — If you have not updated your website to the latest
WordPress version 5.0.3, it''s a brilliant idea to upgrade the content management
software of your site now. From now, I mean immediately.
Cybersecurity researchers at RIPS Technologies GmbH today shared their latest
research with The Hacker News, revealing the existence of a critical remote code
execution vulnerability that affects all previous versions of WordPress content
management software released in the past 6 years.
The remote code execution attack, discovered and reported to the WordPress security
team late last year, can be exploited by a low privileged attacker with at least
an "author" account using a combination of two separate vulnerabilities—Path Traversal
and Local File Inclusion—that reside in the WordPress core.
The requirement of at least an author account reduces the severity of this vulnerability
to some extent, which could be exploited by a rogue content contributor or an
attacker who somehow manages to gain author''s credential using phishing, password
reuse or other attacks.
"An attacker who gains access to an account with at least author privileges on
a target WordPress site can execute arbitrary PHP code on the underlying server,
leading to a full remote takeover," Scannell says.
Video Demonstration — Here''s How the Attack Works
According to Simon Scannell, a researcher at RIPS Technologies GmbH, the attack
takes advantage of the way WordPress image management system handles Post Meta
entries used to store description, size, creator, and other meta information of
uploaded images.
Scannell found that a rogue or compromised author account can modify any entries
associated with an image and set them to arbitrary values, leading to the Path
Traversal vulnerability.
"The idea is to set _wp_attached_file to evil.jpg?shell.php, which would lead
to an HTTP request being made to the following URL: https://targetserver.com/wp-content/uploads/evil.jpg?shell.php,"
Scannell explains.
And, "it is still possible to plant the resulting image into any directory by
using a payload such as evil.jpg?/../../evil.jpg."
The Path Traversal flaw in combination with a local file inclusion flaw in theme
directory could then allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the targeted
server.
The attack, as shown in the proof-of-concept video shared by the researcher, can
be executed within seconds to gain complete control over a vulnerable WordPress
blog.
According to Scannell, the code execution attack became non-exploitable in WordPress
versions 5.0.1 and 4.9.9 after patch for another vulnerability was introduced
which prevented unauthorized users from setting arbitrary Post Meta entries.
However, the Path Traversal flaw is still unpatched even in the latest WordPress
version and can be exploited if any installed 3rd-party plugin incorrectly handles
Post Meta entries.
Scannell confirmed that the next release of WordPress would include a fix to completely
address the issue demonstrated by the researcher.
'
sentences:
- 'Exclusive — If you have not updated your website to the latest WordPress version
5.0.3, it''s a brilliant idea to upgrade the content management software of your
site now. From now, I mean immediately.
Cybersecurity researchers at RIPS Technologies GmbH today shared their latest
research with The Hacker News, revealing the existence of a critical remote code
execution vulnerability that affects all previous versions of WordPress content
management software released in the past 6 years.
The remote code execution attack, discovered and reported to the WordPress security
team late last year, can be exploited by a low privileged attacker with at least
an "author" account using a combination of two separate vulnerabilities—Path Traversal
and Local File Inclusion—that reside in the WordPress core.
The requirement of at least an author account reduces the severity of this vulnerability
to some extent, which could be exploited by a rogue content contributor or an
attacker who somehow manages to gain author''s credential using phishing, password
reuse or other attacks.
"An attacker who gains access to an account with at least author privileges on
a target WordPress site can execute arbitrary PHP code on the underlying server,
leading to a full remote takeover," Scannell says.
Video Demonstration — Here''s How the Attack Works
According to Simon Scannell, a researcher at RIPS Technologies GmbH, the attack
takes advantage of the way WordPress image management system handles Post Meta
entries used to store description, size, creator, and other meta information of
uploaded images.
Scannell found that a rogue or compromised author account can modify any entries
associated with an image and set them to arbitrary values, leading to the Path
Traversal vulnerability.
"The idea is to set _wp_attached_file to evil.jpg?shell.php, which would lead
to an HTTP request being made to the following URL: https://targetserver.com/wp-content/uploads/evil.jpg?shell.php,"
Scannell explains.
And, "it is still possible to plant the resulting image into any directory by
using a payload such as evil.jpg?/../../evil.jpg."
The Path Traversal flaw in combination with a local file inclusion flaw in theme
directory could then allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the targeted
server.
The attack, as shown in the proof-of-concept video shared by the researcher, can
be executed within seconds to gain complete control over a vulnerable WordPress
blog.
According to Scannell, the code execution attack became non-exploitable in WordPress
versions 5.0.1 and 4.9.9 after patch for another vulnerability was introduced
which prevented unauthorized users from setting arbitrary Post Meta entries.
However, the Path Traversal flaw is still unpatched even in the latest WordPress
version and can be exploited if any installed 3rd-party plugin incorrectly handles
Post Meta entries.
Scannell confirmed that the next release of WordPress would include a fix to completely
address the issue demonstrated by the researcher.
'
- 'Android Security Squad, the China-based group that uncovered a second Android
master key vulnerability that might be abused to modify smartphone apps without
breaking their digital signatures.
The whole point of digitally signing a document or file is to prove the file hasn''t
been modified. The process uses a form of public-key cryptography. In Chinese
version of hacking attack, malicious code can be added into the file headers,
but the method is limited because targeted files need to be smaller than 64K in
size.
APK files are packed using a version of the widespread ZIP archiving algorithm.
Most ZIP implementations won''t permit two same-named files in one archive, but
the algorithm itself doesn''t forbid that possibility. So basically, two versions
of the classes.dex file are placed inside of the package, the original and a hacked
alternative.
When checking an app''s digital signature, the Android OS looks at the first matching
file, but when actually executing and launching the file, it grabs the last one.
To Trojanize an app, then, all you need to do is shoehorn your malicious code
into it using a name that already exists within the app.
The flaw is very similar to the first master key vulnerability recently announced
by researchers from mobile security firm Bluebox Security. According to BlueBox,
99% of Android devices are vulnerable to this attack. Google has already patched
the flaw and posted it to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).
You can use ReKey, a free mobile app that''s designed to patch the Android master
key vulnerability that''s present in an estimated 900 million devices that run
Android and that could be exploited by attackers to take full control of a device.
Always get your apps from legitimate sources, always check to make sure the developer
name is valid, and configure your phone so it doesn''t permit installing apps
from unknown sources.
'
- 'Cyber criminals are using popular note-taking app Evernote as Command-and-Control
Server to give commands to the malware installed on infected PCs using botnets.
TrendMicro uncovered a malware detected as "BKDR_VERNOT.A" tried to communicate
with Command-and-Control Server using Evernote.
Malware delivered via an executable file that installs the malware as a dynamic-link
library. The installer then ties the DLL into a legitimate running process, hiding
it from casual detection. Once installed, BKDR_VERNOT.A can perform several backdoor
commands such as downloading, executing, and renaming files. It then gathers information
from the infected system, including details about its OS, timezone, user name,
computer name, registered owner and organization.
Researchers also pointed out that the backdoor may have also used Evernote as
a location to upload stolen data. "Unfortunately, during our testing, it was not
able to login using the credentials embedded in the malware. This is possibly
a security measure imposed by Evernote following its recent hacking issue."
"Though this is a clever maneuver to avoid detection, this is not the first time
that a legitimate service like Evernote was used as a method of evasion."
Like Evernote, Google Docs, Twitter and others have been misused in the past.
'
- source_sentence: 'U.S. has the top Security Agencies like NSA, FBI to tackle cyber
crime and terrorism with their high profile surveillance technologies, but even
after that U.S is proudly hosting 44% of the entire cloud based malware distribution.
With the enhancement in Internet technology, Cloud computing has shown the possibility
of existence and now has become an essential gradient for any Internet Identity.
Cloud services are designed in such a way that it is easy to maintain, use, configure
and can be scaled depending upon the requirement of the service being provided
using the CLOUD technology with cost effective manner.
Due to the Easy and Cost effective alternative of traditional computing, Malware
writers are using the big cloud hosting platforms to quickly and effectively serve
malware to Internet users, allowing them to bypass detection and geographic blacklisting
by serving from a trusted provider.
Hiding behind trusted domains and names is not something new. According to recently
published SERT Q4 2013 Threat Intelligence Report, the malware distributors are
using Cloud Services from Amazon, GoDaddy and Google like a legitimate customer,
allowing them to infect millions of computers and vast numbers of enterprise systems.
The Cloud-based hosting services let malware distributors to avoid the detection
because repeatedly changes IP addresses and domain names to avoid detection. Amazon
and GoDaddy were identified as the top malware-hosting providers, with a 16 percent
and a 14 percent share, respectively.
Major Additional findings include:
United States hosts 4.6 times more malware than the next leading country.
58% of malicious files obtained were identified as HTML files, 26% were directly
executable.
Many malware developers and distributors are utilizing social engineering tactics,
including the use of trusted keywords and services, to evade detection and increase
potential infection counts.
A single malicious domain was spread across 20 countries, 67 providers and 199
unique IPs evade detection.
The SERT Research team collected a large number of samples from more than 12,000
Registrars, 22,000 ISPs (Internet Service Providers) and tested all malicious
packages with more than 40 antivirus engines, output of which is concluded below:
The majority of the top malware sites is domains commonly associated with the
Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUA), more commonly known as adware, type of
malware distributions.
"Researchers found that a significant portion of the malware sampled consisted
of Microsoft Windows 32-bit Portable Executable (PE32) files being used to distribute
pay-per-install applications known as potentially unwanted applications (PUAs)."
The report claimed that these malware is undetectable from over 40 anti-virus
engines, that can act as a gateway for exploits and more than half of malware
found being distributed by HTML web pages.
'
sentences:
- 'U.S. has the top Security Agencies like NSA, FBI to tackle cyber crime and terrorism
with their high profile surveillance technologies, but even after that U.S is
proudly hosting 44% of the entire cloud based malware distribution.
With the enhancement in Internet technology, Cloud computing has shown the possibility
of existence and now has become an essential gradient for any Internet Identity.
Cloud services are designed in such a way that it is easy to maintain, use, configure
and can be scaled depending upon the requirement of the service being provided
using the CLOUD technology with cost effective manner.
Due to the Easy and Cost effective alternative of traditional computing, Malware
writers are using the big cloud hosting platforms to quickly and effectively serve
malware to Internet users, allowing them to bypass detection and geographic blacklisting
by serving from a trusted provider.
Hiding behind trusted domains and names is not something new. According to recently
published SERT Q4 2013 Threat Intelligence Report, the malware distributors are
using Cloud Services from Amazon, GoDaddy and Google like a legitimate customer,
allowing them to infect millions of computers and vast numbers of enterprise systems.
The Cloud-based hosting services let malware distributors to avoid the detection
because repeatedly changes IP addresses and domain names to avoid detection. Amazon
and GoDaddy were identified as the top malware-hosting providers, with a 16 percent
and a 14 percent share, respectively.
Major Additional findings include:
United States hosts 4.6 times more malware than the next leading country.
58% of malicious files obtained were identified as HTML files, 26% were directly
executable.
Many malware developers and distributors are utilizing social engineering tactics,
including the use of trusted keywords and services, to evade detection and increase
potential infection counts.
A single malicious domain was spread across 20 countries, 67 providers and 199
unique IPs evade detection.
The SERT Research team collected a large number of samples from more than 12,000
Registrars, 22,000 ISPs (Internet Service Providers) and tested all malicious
packages with more than 40 antivirus engines, output of which is concluded below:
The majority of the top malware sites is domains commonly associated with the
Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUA), more commonly known as adware, type of
malware distributions.
"Researchers found that a significant portion of the malware sampled consisted
of Microsoft Windows 32-bit Portable Executable (PE32) files being used to distribute
pay-per-install applications known as potentially unwanted applications (PUAs)."
The report claimed that these malware is undetectable from over 40 anti-virus
engines, that can act as a gateway for exploits and more than half of malware
found being distributed by HTML web pages.
'
- 'Windows 8 will be challenge for Malware writers
Microsoft™s security researcher believe that upcoming operating system, Windows
8 is a step forward in security and Windows 8 will be far better at protecting
against malware than it''s predecessors.
Chris Valasek, a senior security research scientist at development testing firm
Coverity, began examining the security features of Windows 8 last autumn, before
the consumer previews of the upcoming revamp of the new Microsoft OS came out.
"There are always going to be vulnerabilities but you can make it difficult to
leverage vulnerabilities to write exploits." One major change between Windows
7 and 8 is the addition of more exploit-mitigation technologies, however. Windows
Memory Managers (specifically the Windows Heap Manager and Windows Kernel Pool
Allocator) are designed to make it far harder for attackers to exploit buffer-overflow
vulnerabilities and the like to push malware onto vulnerable systems.
The "security sandbox" for applications for Windows 8 will also be a great step
forward. "These new Windows 8 Apps will be contained by a much more restrictive
security sandbox, which is a mechanism to prevent programs from performing certain
actions," Valasek explains.
"This new App Container provides the operating system with a way to make more
fine-grained decisions on what actions certain applications can perform, instead
of relying on the more broad ''Integrity Levels'' that debuted in Windows Vista/7.
Windows 8 also comes with a new version of Internet Explorer, Microsoft''s browser
software. Internet Explorer 10 will come with a mode that disables support for
third-party plug-ins such as Flash and Java.
'
- 'Ransomware, a threat to internet users that continues to grow in popularity with
cyber criminals due to its success and monetary potential. This is nothing new
and to be expected. I have noticed many discussions on underground hacking forums
about "How to create Ransomware like Cryptolocker malware" or "Malware - hacking
tool-kit with ransomware features".
Security intelligence provider, IntelCrawler has discovered a new ransomware variant
called Locker that demands $150 (£92) to restore files that it has encrypted.
Like Cryptolocker, this new ransomware is also nasty because infected users are
in danger of losing their personal files forever.
Locker mainly spreads by drive-by downloads from compromised websites, disguised
itself as MP3 files and use system software vulnerabilities to infect the end
user.
Once it has infected a system, malware first checks the infected machine has an
internet connection or not. Then it deletes any original files from the victim''s
computer after using AES-CTR for encrypting the files on infected devices and
add ". perfect" extension to them.
Locker''s encryption is based on an open source tool called ''TurboPower LockBox''
library. After encrypting all files, the malware place a "CONTACT.TXT" file in
each directory, which provides contact details of the author to buy the decryption
key and once the ransom is paid, each victim gets a key to unscramble files.
The good news is that the researchers are working on the universal decryption
software in order to help the victims. "It appears that the hackers are simply
comparing the list of infected IP addresses of users, along with their host names,"
according IntelCrawler.
IntelCrawler had discovered 50 different builds of the malware, which are being
sold in underground markets for pay-per install programs. One builds had just
under 6,000 infected machines. ZdNet reported.
Malware will encrypt all drives visible on an infected system, so you must be
sure that your backups are stored remotely or in a location that is not simply
another drive partition or mapping to another location.
The malware infects users from the United States, Turkey, Russia, Germany and
the Netherlands. Users should remain vigilant about their security. Please double
check the legitimacy of links received in emails and ensure you have your antivirus
up to date to help protect against such threats.
'
- source_sentence: 'Security Event : Hack In Paris (16-17 June, 2011)
Hack In Paris is an international and corporate security event that will take
place in Disneyland Paris® fromJune 16th to 17th of 2011. Please refer to the
homepage to get up-to-date information about the event.
Topics
The following list contains major topics the conference will cover. Please consider
submitting even if the subject of your research is not listed here.
Advances in reverse engineering
Vulnerability research and exploitation
Penetration testing and security assessment
Malware analysis and new trends in malicous codes
Forensics, IT crime & law enforcement
Privacy issues: LOPPSI, HADOPI, …
Low-level hacking (console security & mobile devices)
Risk management and ISO 27001
Dates
January 20: CFP announced
March 30: Submission deadline
April 15: Notification sent to authors
April 17: Program announcement
June 16-17: Hack In Paris
June 18: Nuit du Hack
More Information: https://hackinparis.com
'
sentences:
- 'It''s just two weeks into the Trump presidency, but his decisions have caused
utter chaos around the country.
One such order signed by the president was banning both refugees and visa holders
from seven Muslim-majority countries (Iraq, Iran, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Syria,
and Sudan) from entering the United States, resulting in unexpectedly arrest of
some travelers at airports.
Now, it seems like some anti-Trump protesters have publically declared their fight
against the president by exploiting a known flaw in low power FM (LPFM) radio
transmitters to play a song the radio stations didn''t intend to broadcast.
Radio stations in South Carolina, Indiana, Texas, Tennessee and Kentucky, were
hacked recently to broadcast the Bompton-based rapper YG and Nipsey Hussle''s
anti-Trump song "Fuck Donald Trump," which was already a radio hit in some parts
of the country last year, several sources report.
The song was repeatedly played on Monday night, according to the RadioInsight,
and the news of the incident began emerging shortly after Trump''s inauguration
on January 20, eight days before hackers hacked 70 percent of the police CCTV
cameras in Washington DC.
Hackers gained access to the radio stations by exploiting known vulnerabilities
in Barix Exstreamer devices which can decode audio file formats and send them
along for LPFM transmission.
Over a dozen radio stations experienced the hack in recent weeks, though some
of them shut down their airwaves as quickly as possible in an attempt to avoid
playing the inflammatory "FDT (Fuck Donald Trump)" song on loop.
The hackers or group of hackers behind the cyber attack is still unknown. The
affected stations so far include:
105.9 WFBS-LP Salem, S.C.
Radio 810 WMGC/96.7 W244CW Murfreesboro TN
101.9 Pirate Seattle
100.9 WCHQ-LP Louisville
100.5 KCGF-LP San Angelo TX
However, there are unconfirmed reports from radio stations in California, Indiana,
and Washington State that are believed to be affected as well.
Has any of the radio stations you listen to been hit by the hackers? Let us know
in the comments!
'
- 'Google is going to shut down its social media network Google+ after the company
suffered a massive data breach that exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands
of Google Plus users to third-party developers.
According to the tech giant, a security vulnerability in one of Google+''s People
APIs allowed third-party developers to access data for more than 500,000 users,
including their usernames, email addresses, occupation, date of birth, profile
photos, and gender-related information.
Since Google+ servers do not keep API logs for more than two weeks, the company
cannot confirm the number of users impacted by the vulnerability.
However, Google assured its users that the company found no evidence that any
developer was aware of this bug, or that the profile data was misused by any of
the 438 developers that could have had access.
"However, we ran a detailed analysis over the two weeks prior to patching the
bug, and from that analysis, the Profiles of up to 500,000 Google+ accounts were
potentially affected. Our analysis showed that up to 438 applications may have
used this API," Google said in blog post published today.
The vulnerability was open since 2015 and fixed after Google discovered it in
March 2018, but the company chose not to disclose the breach to the public—at
the time when Facebook was being roasted for Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Though Google has not revealed the technical details of the security vulnerability,
the nature of the flaw seems to be something very similar to Facebook API flaw
that recently allowed unauthorized developers to access private data from Facebook
users.
Besides admitting the security breach, Google also announced that the company
is shutting down its social media network, acknowledging that Google+ failed to
gain broad adoption or significant traction with consumers.
"The consumer version of Google+ currently has low usage and engagement: 90 percent
of Google+ user sessions are less than five seconds," Google said.
In response, the company has decided to shut down Google+ for consumers by the
end of August 2019. However, Google+ will continue as a product for Enterprise
users.
Google Introduces New Privacy Controls Over Third-Party App Permissions
As part of its "Project Strobe," Google engineers also reviewed third-party developer
access to Google account and Android device data; and has accordingly now introduced
some new privacy controls.
When a third-party app prompts users for access to their Google account data,
clicking "Allow" button approves all requested permissions at once, leaving an
opportunity for malicious apps to trick users into giving away powerful permissions.
But now Google has updated its Account Permissions system that asks for each requested
permission individually rather than all at once, giving users more control over
what type of account data they choose to share with each app.
Since APIs can also allow developers to access users'' extremely sensitive data,
like that of Gmail account, Google has limited access to Gmail API only for apps
that directly enhance email functionality—such as email clients, email backup
services and productivity services.
Google shares fell over 2 percent to $1134.23 after the data breach reports.
'
- 'Security Event : Hack In Paris (16-17 June, 2011)
Hack In Paris is an international and corporate security event that will take
place in Disneyland Paris® fromJune 16th to 17th of 2011. Please refer to the
homepage to get up-to-date information about the event.
Topics
The following list contains major topics the conference will cover. Please consider
submitting even if the subject of your research is not listed here.
Advances in reverse engineering
Vulnerability research and exploitation
Penetration testing and security assessment
Malware analysis and new trends in malicous codes
Forensics, IT crime & law enforcement
Privacy issues: LOPPSI, HADOPI, …
Low-level hacking (console security & mobile devices)
Risk management and ISO 27001
Dates
January 20: CFP announced
March 30: Submission deadline
April 15: Notification sent to authors
April 17: Program announcement
June 16-17: Hack In Paris
June 18: Nuit du Hack
More Information: https://hackinparis.com
'
pipeline_tag: sentence-similarity
library_name: sentence-transformers
---
# SentenceTransformer based on sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2
This is a [sentence-transformers](https://www.SBERT.net) model finetuned from [sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2](https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2). It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 384-dimensional dense vector space and can be used for semantic textual similarity, semantic search, paraphrase mining, text classification, clustering, and more.
## Model Details
### Model Description
- **Model Type:** Sentence Transformer
- **Base model:** [sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2](https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2)
- **Maximum Sequence Length:** 256 tokens
- **Output Dimensionality:** 384 dimensions
- **Similarity Function:** Cosine Similarity
### Model Sources
- **Documentation:** [Sentence Transformers Documentation](https://sbert.net)
- **Repository:** [Sentence Transformers on GitHub](https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers)
- **Hugging Face:** [Sentence Transformers on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/models?library=sentence-transformers)
### Full Model Architecture
```
SentenceTransformer(
(0): Transformer({'max_seq_length': 256, 'do_lower_case': False}) with Transformer model: BertModel
(1): Pooling({'word_embedding_dimension': 384, 'pooling_mode_cls_token': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_tokens': True, 'pooling_mode_max_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_sqrt_len_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_weightedmean_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_lasttoken': False, 'include_prompt': True})
(2): Normalize()
)
```
## Usage
### Direct Usage (Sentence Transformers)
First install the Sentence Transformers library:
```bash
pip install -U sentence-transformers
```
Then you can load this model and run inference.
```python
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
# Download from the 🤗 Hub
model = SentenceTransformer("sgadagin/fine_tuned_sbert")
# Run inference
sentences = [
'Security Event : Hack In Paris (16-17 June, 2011)\n\n\nHack In Paris is an international and corporate security event that will take place in Disneyland Paris® fromJune 16th to 17th of 2011. Please refer to the homepage to get up-to-date information about the event.\n\nTopics\nThe following list contains major topics the conference will cover. Please consider submitting even if the subject of your research is not listed here.\nAdvances in reverse engineering\nVulnerability research and exploitation\nPenetration testing and security assessment\nMalware analysis and new trends in malicous codes\nForensics, IT crime & law enforcement\nPrivacy issues: LOPPSI, HADOPI, …\nLow-level hacking (console security & mobile devices)\nRisk management and ISO 27001\nDates\nJanuary 20: CFP announced\nMarch 30: Submission deadline\nApril 15: Notification sent to authors\nApril 17: Program announcement\nJune 16-17: Hack In Paris\nJune 18: Nuit du Hack\nMore Information: https://hackinparis.com\n\n',
'Security Event : Hack In Paris (16-17 June, 2011)\n\n\nHack In Paris is an international and corporate security event that will take place in Disneyland Paris® fromJune 16th to 17th of 2011. Please refer to the homepage to get up-to-date information about the event.\n\nTopics\nThe following list contains major topics the conference will cover. Please consider submitting even if the subject of your research is not listed here.\nAdvances in reverse engineering\nVulnerability research and exploitation\nPenetration testing and security assessment\nMalware analysis and new trends in malicous codes\nForensics, IT crime & law enforcement\nPrivacy issues: LOPPSI, HADOPI, …\nLow-level hacking (console security & mobile devices)\nRisk management and ISO 27001\nDates\nJanuary 20: CFP announced\nMarch 30: Submission deadline\nApril 15: Notification sent to authors\nApril 17: Program announcement\nJune 16-17: Hack In Paris\nJune 18: Nuit du Hack\nMore Information: https://hackinparis.com\n\n',
'Google is going to shut down its social media network Google+ after the company suffered a massive data breach that exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of Google Plus users to third-party developers.\n\nAccording to the tech giant, a security vulnerability in one of Google+\'s People APIs allowed third-party developers to access data for more than 500,000 users, including their usernames, email addresses, occupation, date of birth, profile photos, and gender-related information.\n\nSince Google+ servers do not keep API logs for more than two weeks, the company cannot confirm the number of users impacted by the vulnerability.\n\nHowever, Google assured its users that the company found no evidence that any developer was aware of this bug, or that the profile data was misused by any of the 438 developers that could have had access.\n"However, we ran a detailed analysis over the two weeks prior to patching the bug, and from that analysis, the Profiles of up to 500,000 Google+ accounts were potentially affected. Our analysis showed that up to 438 applications may have used this API," Google said in blog post published today.\nThe vulnerability was open since 2015 and fixed after Google discovered it in March 2018, but the company chose not to disclose the breach to the public—at the time when Facebook was being roasted for Cambridge Analytica scandal.\n\nThough Google has not revealed the technical details of the security vulnerability, the nature of the flaw seems to be something very similar to Facebook API flaw that recently allowed unauthorized developers to access private data from Facebook users.\n\nBesides admitting the security breach, Google also announced that the company is shutting down its social media network, acknowledging that Google+ failed to gain broad adoption or significant traction with consumers.\n"The consumer version of Google+ currently has low usage and engagement: 90 percent of Google+ user sessions are less than five seconds," Google said.\nIn response, the company has decided to shut down Google+ for consumers by the end of August 2019. However, Google+ will continue as a product for Enterprise users.\n\nGoogle Introduces New Privacy Controls Over Third-Party App Permissions\n\nAs part of its "Project Strobe," Google engineers also reviewed third-party developer access to Google account and Android device data; and has accordingly now introduced some new privacy controls.\n\nWhen a third-party app prompts users for access to their Google account data, clicking "Allow" button approves all requested permissions at once, leaving an opportunity for malicious apps to trick users into giving away powerful permissions.\nBut now Google has updated its Account Permissions system that asks for each requested permission individually rather than all at once, giving users more control over what type of account data they choose to share with each app.\n\nSince APIs can also allow developers to access users\' extremely sensitive data, like that of Gmail account, Google has limited access to Gmail API only for apps that directly enhance email functionality—such as email clients, email backup services and productivity services.\n\nGoogle shares fell over 2 percent to $1134.23 after the data breach reports.\n\n',
]
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings.shape)
# [3, 384]
# Get the similarity scores for the embeddings
similarities = model.similarity(embeddings, embeddings)
print(similarities.shape)
# [3, 3]
```
## Training Details
### Training Dataset
#### Unnamed Dataset
* Size: 3,742 training samples
* Columns: sentence_0
, sentence_1
, and label
* Approximate statistics based on the first 1000 samples:
| | sentence_0 | sentence_1 | label |
|:--------|:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| type | string | string | int |
| details |
U.S. online fashion retailer SHEIN has admitted that the company has suffered a significant data breach after unknown hackers stole personally identifiable information (PII) of almost 6.5 million customers.
Based in North Brunswick and founded in 2008, SHEIN has become one of the largest online fashion retailers that ships to more than 80 countries worldwide. The site has been initially designed to produce "affordable" and trendy fashion clothing for women.
SHEIN revealed last weekend that its servers had been targeted by a "concerted criminal cyber-attack" that began in June this year and lasted until August 22, when the company was finally made aware of the potential theft.
Soon after that, the company scanned its servers to remove all possible backdoored entry points, leveraging which hackers could again infiltrate the servers. SHEIN assured its customers that the website is now safe to visit.
Hackers Stole Over 6.42 Million SHEIN Customers' Data
Although details about the inci...
| U.S. online fashion retailer SHEIN has admitted that the company has suffered a significant data breach after unknown hackers stole personally identifiable information (PII) of almost 6.5 million customers.
Based in North Brunswick and founded in 2008, SHEIN has become one of the largest online fashion retailers that ships to more than 80 countries worldwide. The site has been initially designed to produce "affordable" and trendy fashion clothing for women.
SHEIN revealed last weekend that its servers had been targeted by a "concerted criminal cyber-attack" that began in June this year and lasted until August 22, when the company was finally made aware of the potential theft.
Soon after that, the company scanned its servers to remove all possible backdoored entry points, leveraging which hackers could again infiltrate the servers. SHEIN assured its customers that the website is now safe to visit.
Hackers Stole Over 6.42 Million SHEIN Customers' Data
Although details about the inci...
| 1
|
| A location based Social Networking platform with 45 million users,'Foursquare' was vulnerable to the primary email address disclosed.
Foursquare is a Smartphone application that gives you details of nearby cafes, bars, shops, parks using GPS location and also tells about your friends nearby.
According to a Penetration tester and hacker 'Jamal Eddine', an attacker can extract email addresses of all 45 million users just by using a few lines of scripting tool.
Basically the flaw exists in the Invitation system of the Foursquare app. While testing the app, he found that invitation received on the recipient's end actually disclosing the sender's email address, as shown above.
Invitation URL:
https://foursquare.com/mehdi?action=acceptFriendship&expires=1378920415&src=wtbfe&uid=64761059&sig=mmlx96RwGrQ2fJAg4OWZhAWnDvc%3D
Where 'uid' parameter represents the sender's profile ID.
Hacker noticed that the parameter in the Invitation URL can be modified in order to spoof the sender profile i...
| A location based Social Networking platform with 45 million users,'Foursquare' was vulnerable to the primary email address disclosed.
Foursquare is a Smartphone application that gives you details of nearby cafes, bars, shops, parks using GPS location and also tells about your friends nearby.
According to a Penetration tester and hacker 'Jamal Eddine', an attacker can extract email addresses of all 45 million users just by using a few lines of scripting tool.
Basically the flaw exists in the Invitation system of the Foursquare app. While testing the app, he found that invitation received on the recipient's end actually disclosing the sender's email address, as shown above.
Invitation URL:
https://foursquare.com/mehdi?action=acceptFriendship&expires=1378920415&src=wtbfe&uid=64761059&sig=mmlx96RwGrQ2fJAg4OWZhAWnDvc%3D
Where 'uid' parameter represents the sender's profile ID.
Hacker noticed that the parameter in the Invitation URL can be modified in order to spoof the sender profile i...
| 1
|
| Earlier this week Dropbox team unveiled details of three critical vulnerabilities in Apple macOS operating system, which altogether could allow a remote attacker to execute malicious code on a targeted Mac computer just by convincing a victim into visiting a malicious web page.
The reported vulnerabilities were originally discovered by Syndis, a cybersecurity firm hired by Dropbox to conduct simulated penetration testing attacks as Red Team on the company's IT infrastructure, including Apple software used by Dropbox.
The vulnerabilities were discovered and disclosed to Apple security team in February this year, which were then patched by Apple just over one month later with the release of its March security updates. DropBox applauded Apple for its quick response to its bug report.
According to DropBox, the vulnerabilities discovered by Syndis didn't just affect its macOS fleet, but also affected all Safari users running the latest version of the web browser and operating system at t...
| Earlier this week Dropbox team unveiled details of three critical vulnerabilities in Apple macOS operating system, which altogether could allow a remote attacker to execute malicious code on a targeted Mac computer just by convincing a victim into visiting a malicious web page.
The reported vulnerabilities were originally discovered by Syndis, a cybersecurity firm hired by Dropbox to conduct simulated penetration testing attacks as Red Team on the company's IT infrastructure, including Apple software used by Dropbox.
The vulnerabilities were discovered and disclosed to Apple security team in February this year, which were then patched by Apple just over one month later with the release of its March security updates. DropBox applauded Apple for its quick response to its bug report.
According to DropBox, the vulnerabilities discovered by Syndis didn't just affect its macOS fleet, but also affected all Safari users running the latest version of the web browser and operating system at t...
| 3
|
* Loss: [SoftmaxLoss
](https://sbert.net/docs/package_reference/sentence_transformer/losses.html#softmaxloss)
### Training Hyperparameters
#### Non-Default Hyperparameters
- `multi_dataset_batch_sampler`: round_robin
#### All Hyperparameters