Alisa Esage G (Page 117)

Working as a cyber security solutions architect, Alisa focuses on application and network security. Before joining us she held a cyber security researcher positions within a variety of cyber security start-ups. She also experience in different industry domains like finance, healthcare and consumer products.

Hacking WPA Enterprise with Kali Linux

On: November 25, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Malware, Vulnerabilities

Admittedly, that’s somewhat of a click-bait blog post title but bear with us, it’s for a good reason. Lots of work goes on behind the scenes of Kali Linux: toolsRead More →

New decryption tool for Crysis ransomware

On: November 24, 2016

In: Incidents, Malware

Since its first appearances until today and surely in the near future, ransomware’s profitable business continues to grow rapidly, compromising the information of companies and users in order to requestRead More →

CERT to Microsoft: Don’t Kill EMET, Windows 10 Is Not as Secure as You Think

On: November 24, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Vulnerabilities

Will Dormann, a Vulnerability Analyst for the US-CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC), is advising Microsoft to continue developing EMET because Windows 10 does not provide the same protection measures, in spiteRead More →

Threat actors leverage InPage Zero-Day in targeted attacks in Asia

On: November 24, 2016

In: Incidents, Vulnerabilities

Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab are warning of targeted attacks with InPage zero-day against a number of organizations in Asia. According to experts from Kaspersky Lab, a number of organizations in AsiaRead More →

MailChimp accounts hacked to spam out malicious emails

On: November 24, 2016

In: Incidents

Let me start with some full disclosure: I pay MailChimp a decent wedge of cash each month to send out newsletters to readers of my personal blog, and I’m quiteRead More →

Great. Now Even Your Headphones Can Spy on You

On: November 24, 2016

In: Incidents, Malware

CAUTIOUS COMPUTER USERS put a piece of tape over their webcam. Truly paranoid ones worry about their devices’ microphones—some even crack open their computers and phones to disable or removeRead More →

[ TECHNICAL TEARDOWN: EXPLOIT & MALWARE IN .HWP FILES ]

On: November 23, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Malware, Vulnerabilities

This article will focus on teaching analysts on analysing malicious JavaScript code within the HWP files and a walkthrough of how we can analyse .HWP files that was used toRead More →

A look at recent Stampado ransomware variant

On: November 23, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Malware, Vulnerabilities

Stampado is one of the many new ransomware strains we have seen in 2016. Stampado was first seen in the wild in July 2016, as one of the cheapest piecesRead More →

EXPLOIT CODE RELEASED FOR NTP VULNERABILITY

On: November 23, 2016

In: Vulnerabilities

A researcher has released a proof-of-concept exploit for a vulnerability in the Network Time Protocol daemon that could crash a server with a single, malformed packet. The Network Time Foundation’sRead More →

The FBI Hacked Over 8,000 Computers In 120 Countries Based on One Warrant

On: November 23, 2016

In: Incidents

In January, Motherboard reported on the FBI’s “unprecedented” hacking operation, in which the agency, using a single warrant, deployed malware to over one thousand alleged visitors of a dark webRead More →

Elegant 0-day unicorn underscores “serious concerns” about Linux security

On: November 23, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Malware, Vulnerabilities

Scriptless exploit bypasses state-of-the-art protections baked into the OS. Recently released exploit code makes people running fully patched versions of Fedora and other Linux distributions vulnerable to drive-by attacks thatRead More →

A Hacker Took Over Tel Aviv’s Public Wi-Fi Network to Prove That He Could

On: November 22, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Vulnerabilities

Israeli hacker Amihai Neiderman needed three days to hack into Tel Aviv’s free public Wi-Fi. He only worked during the evenings, after he came home from his full-time job asRead More →

A Botnet of IoT Devices Is Behind Many Instagram Fake Profiles

On: November 22, 2016

In: Data Security

A botnet of IoT (Internet of Things) devices created with the Linux/Moose malware is behind many bots that are plaguing social networks such as YouTube, Periscope, Twitter, and Instagram, aboveRead More →

Office Depot caught claiming out-of-box PCs showed “symptoms of malware”

On: November 22, 2016

In: Incidents

News investigations show office supply chain sold unneeded fixes for $180. Office Depot and its sister retailer OfficeMax have stopped using a technically dubious piece of malware-scanning software after twoRead More →

BLOCKING LOCAL NETWORK HIJACKING ATTACKS

On: November 22, 2016

In: Incidents, Mobile Security, Vulnerabilities

Adversaries who have compromised one system in a network frequently hijack the network traffic of other systems on the same subnet to intercept passwords, infect software downloads and updates, spyRead More →

Security Firm Detects 57M Attempts to Exploit 2-Year-Old Router Firmware Backdoor

On: November 22, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Malware, Vulnerabilities

The case of the Netis router firmware backdoor shows you that even if a company puts out a patch to resolve security issues, the problem lingers on for years, asRead More →

Human Rights Foundation Website Hacked, Thousands of Accounts Exposed

On: November 21, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Malware, Vulnerabilities

SQL injection exposes nearly 20,000 usernames and passwords. The Hungarian Human Rights Foundation website was hacked a few minutes ago by Kapustkiy and CyberZeist, who managed to get access toRead More →

Watch out, Locky ransomware spread via SVG images on Facebook Messenger

On: November 21, 2016

In: Malware

Researchers have discovered a new hacking campaign leveraging on Facebook Messenger to spread the Locky ransomware via SVG images. The Locky Ransomware is spread via a downloader, experts noticed that it isRead More →

Hackers Program Bank ATMs to Spew Cash

On: November 21, 2016

In: Incidents, Vulnerabilities

After crimes in Taiwan and Thailand, the FBI warns of similar potential attacks in U.S. Cybercriminals who once earned millions by breaking into individual online bank accounts are now targetingRead More →

Microsoft Xbox, PlayStation, Other Popular Twitter Accounts Hacked

On: November 21, 2016

In: Incidents, Mobile Security

Several high-profile Twitter accounts got hacked last night to start posting links to services that are supposed to help users get free followers. The hacked accounts included @PlayStation, Microsoft’s @XboxSupport,Read More →

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