Some Netflix Passwords Have Been Hacked
2016-10-17
Logins and passwords that match Netflix accounts have been released by a separate company, Netflix said today in an email to affected customers. I found out via email, as IRead More →
Crooks Leverage Explosives to Rob ATMs Because Malware Is Overrated
2016-10-17
Who needs complicated malware when you have dynamite.Criminals like to use explosives to break into ATMs, rather than deploy malware, a recent European ATM Security Team (EAST) report has shown.Read More →
Beware of all-powerful DDoS malware infecting cellular gateways, feds warn
2016-10-15
Sierra Wireless confirms that devices it manufactures were infected by Mirai. This week, the US government-backed ICS-CERT warned that the troubling new generation of computer attacks is powered by malware thatRead More →
Android Devices That Contain Foxconn Firmware May Have a Secret Backdoor
2016-10-15
Pork Explosion backdoor affects Foxconn-made devices. Some Android devices that contain firmware created by Foxconn may be vulnerable via a debugging feature left inside the OS bootloader, which acts asRead More →
Surge of email attacks using malicious WSF attachments
2016-10-15
Ransomware attack groups among the most frequent users of new tactic. Symantec has seen a major increase in the number of email-based attacks using malicious Windows Script File (WSF) attachmentsRead More →
Android Banking Trojan Asks for Selfie With Your ID
2016-10-15
In the first half of 2016 we noticed that Android banking Trojans had started to improve their phishing overlays on legitimate financial apps to ask for more information. Victims were requested toRead More →
EvilTwin’s Exotic Ransomware continuously monitors for new Files to Encrypt
2016-10-15
The Exotic Ransomware is a new infection released by a malware developer going by the alias of EvilTwin or Exotic Squad. Discovered on October 12th by MalwareHunterTeam, the Exotic Ransomware will encrypt allRead More →
CryPy: ransomware behind Israeli lines
2016-10-14
A Tweet posted recently by AVG researcher, Jakub Kroustek, suggested that a new ransomware, written entirely in Python, had been found in the wild, joining the emerging trend for PysomwaresRead More →
A New Linux Trojan Called NyaDrop Threatens the IoT Landscape
2016-10-14
Malware author returns to IoT landscape following Mirai’s success and the wealth of vulnerable devices. The Krebs DDoS attacks have proven that the IoT landscape is a fertile ground that canRead More →
Clinton campaign chief’s iPhone was hacked and wiped, photos suggest
2016-10-14
Podesta’s iPhone reportedly wiped within hours of his Twitter account being hacked. Unconfirmed evidence builds a strong case that an Apple iCloud account belonging to Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief, JohnRead More →
