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  Researchers analysed millions of posts made on dark web forums over a 12-month period -- here's what they found out and what it means for your security. Some of the most popular strains of malware on underground forums are open-source or cracked versions of malicious software that use exploits that are years old, but still effective. Cybersecurity researchers at Recorded Future analyzed almost four million posts made on dark web forums in several languages between May 2018 and May 2019, and set out their findings in a new report:  Bestsellers in the Underground Economy . The languages analysed include English, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Arabic and others. Across the different forums, many of the forms of malware discussed were universally popular. The top choices were simple-to-use, readily-available forms of malware, suggesting that for many cybercriminals, getting their hands on malware is the main goal -- it doesn't necessarily have to be sophisticated. Some of the most p...

  Source of the data breach appears to be the country's National Revenue Agency A mysterious hacker has stolen the personal details of millions of Bulgarians and has emailed download links to the stolen data to local news publications. The data's origin is believed to be the country's National Revenue Agency (NRA), a department of the Bulgarian Ministry of Finance. In a  message posted on its website  on Monday, the NRA said it was working with the Ministry of the Interior and the State Agency for National Security (SANS) to investigate the hack. "We are currently verifying whether the data is real," said the NRA. Hours after this article's publication, the Bulgarian Ministry of the Interior  confirmed the hack . HACKER STOLE 110 DATABASES, LEAKED 57 According to reports from local media [ 1 ,  2 ,  3 ,  4 ,  5 ], who received part of the data, the hacker said they stole the personal details of over five million Bulgarians, of the country's total ...

  Huawei sets to work on creating an app store alternative to Google Play. Despite  recent talk by US President Donald Trump  that Huawei's ban on US tech would be lifted, the Chinese tech giant appears ready to move ahead with its  Hong Meng OS alternative to Android . Speaking with French news site Le Point, Huawei CEO and founder, Ren Zhengfei, said Hong Meng is likely to be 60% faster than Android, citing a story from  Chinese media about Chinese handset brands Oppo and Vivo testing the new OS .   Zhengfei admitted that the company currently lacked an alternative to the Google Play app store and Apple's App Store, but that it is working on one.   Huawei told potential partners last year that by the end of 2018 it planned to have 50 million Europeans using its own app store, according to documents seen by Bloomberg in May, shortly after the Department of Commerce added Huawei to its entities list, banning US firms from supplying tech to th...

  Would you pay $5 to get news online without seeing ads, asks Mozilla. Mozilla is teasing the launch of a new $5 monthly subscription to a variety of online news publishers that involves no ads. Mozilla is currently only running an online survey to see whether consumers would take up its $5 Firefox offer but it seems far enough into its plan to at least have a  button offering users to 'Sign up now, for $4.99 per month' . Clicking it leads to the survey and a confession that the product isn't actually available yet.  Should Mozilla launch the service, it seems likely to be provided in partnership with Scroll, which has an ad-free news subscription service with 12 media partners, including Slate, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, USA Today, and Vox.  It's not a new idea but a particular take on one of many challenges that companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple are attempting to crack in various ways. In Mozilla's case, the main proposition is to offer users no ads on news...