Sednit update: How Fancy Bear Spent the Year
2017-12-26
The Sednit group — also known as Strontium, APT28, Fancy Bear or Sofacy — is a group of attackers operating since 2004, if not earlier, and whose main objective is to stealRead More →
CVE-2017-7344 Fortinet FortiClient Windows privilege escalation at logon
2017-12-25
A setting, disabled by default, enables FortiClient on the logon screen to allow users to connect to a VPN profile before logon. An attacker, with physical, or remote (e.g. throughRead More →
HUAWEI ROUTER VULNERABILITY USED TO SPREAD MIRAI VARIANT
2017-12-23
Researchers have identified a vulnerability in a Huawei home router model that is being exploited by an adversary to spread a variant of the Mirai malware called Okiku, also knownRead More →
Facebook phishers want you to “Connect with Facebook”
2017-12-23
As we edge toward Christmas, scammers are throwing their own party—in the form of Facebook phishing pages linked to and from bogus landing pages hosted on sites(dot)google(dot)com URLs. These landingRead More →
US capital’s surveillance cam network allegedly hijacked by Romanian ransomware suspects
2017-12-23
Charges filed against pair coincide with arrests abroad. Two of the five unnamed individuals cuffed this month in Romania on suspicion of spreading ransomware face US computer crime charges – for theirRead More →
8 Best WiFi Hacking Software And Analysis Tools You Should Use In 2018
2017-12-22
Security analysis and penetration testing is an integral part of creating any kind of secure network. This brings us to the WiFi hacking software that could be used for ethicallyRead More →
What I hate most about Apple slowing down iPhones with bad batteries
2017-12-22
A few days ago, an iPhone user discovered that his old iPhone felt slower because the battery was getting old. His empirical findings were later confirmed by a benchmark thatRead More →
Windows XP ATM Machine “Hacked” by Simply Pressing Shift Five Times in a Row
2017-12-22
Bad configuration leaves ATM exposed to further hacks. We’ve known for a while that ATM machines running Windows XP (Embedded version or not) are exposed to attacks, but when weRead More →
CHM Badness Delivers a Banking Trojan
2017-12-21
Like good old Microsoft Office Macros, Compiled HTML (CHM) Help files have been utilized by malware authors for more than a decade to sneak malicious downloader code into files makingRead More →
PROJECT ZERO CHAINS BUGS FOR ‘APACOLYPSE NOW’ ATTACK ON WINDOWS 10
2017-12-21
Google’s Project Zero released details of a local proof-of-concept attack against a fully patched Windows 10 PC that allows an adversary to execute untrusted JavaScript outside a sandboxed environment onRead More →
