Last summer we shared a story about the SweetCaptcha WordPress plugin injecting ads and causing malvertising problems for websites that leveraged the plugin. When this plugin was removed from the officialRead More →
Researchers at threat defense company Skycure have uncovered an Android proof of concept malware that uses accessibility services to allow attackers to spy on and even control a device. ItRead More →
This post was written by Marek Vavruša and Jaime Cochran, who found out they were both independently working on the same glibc vulnerability attack vectors at 3am last Tuesday. ARead More →
Kaspersky considers Triada a top Android threat. In the past month, mobile security companies have come across new Android trojans that rival, in terms of sophistication, many desktop viruses. The listRead More →
Cerber ransomware distributed as a Raas service. The latest addition to the ransomware spectrum is a new threat called Cerber that encrypts users files, and then provides a TTS (text-to-speech) featureRead More →
Researcher-devised exploit threatens Bitcoin wallets and other high-value assets. Researchers have devised an attack on Android and iOS devices that successfully steals cryptographic keys used to protect Bitcoin wallets, Apple PayRead More →
A group of researchers that analyzed security of a number of smart watches discovered a $17 smartwatch is sold with a backdoor in the pairing app. Be careful of cheap smartwatchRead More →
Sea pirates hire hacker to break into shipping company’s CMS. A curious case reported by Verizon’s RISK Team shows that even those lowly sea pirates chasing after cargo ships with oldRead More →
French Gov is thinking a law that would impose fines of €1 million on Apple and Google if they refused providing access users’data. Governments worldwide continue to intensify their pressureRead More →
WinRT PDF exposes users to drive-by attacks. WinRT PDF, the default PDF reader for Windows 10, opens Edge users to a new series of attacks that are incredibly similar to howRead More →
Hack the Pentagon – DoD would invite outside hackers to test the cybersecurity of some public US Defense Department resources as part of a pilot initiative. Which is the bestRead More →
FBI Director James Comey has admitted that investigators made a “mistake” after the shooting in San Bernardino when they reset the iCloud password associated with one of the shooters, SyedRead More →
Locky is a new ransomware that has been released (most probably) by the Dridex gang (source). Not surprisingly, it is well prepared, which means that the threat actor behind itRead More →
Short Bytes: Brazilian police have arrested Diego Dzodan, Facebook’s Latin American regional vice-president, for failing to provide WhatsApp messages related to a case of drug-trafficking. In response, Facebook has said that WhatsAppRead More →
Spam campaign baits users with Visa Total Rewards emails containing malware that leads to Trojan.Cryptolocker.N infections. Spam related to credit cards is a typical scam observed on a daily basis. SomeRead More →
Security experts presented the DROWN attack that exploits a new critical security vulnerability affecting the OpenSSL. Security experts have discovered a new critical security vulnerability affecting the OpenSSL, it hasRead More →
Spam posts on Facebook are nothing new. Since videos continue to be a staple form of entertainment—a whopping 8 billion views per day according to last year’s numbers—within the socialRead More →
Pi will still run 32-bit operating systems, but it’ll be 50% faster. The third major version of the Raspberry Pi will go on sale Monday, with the $35/£30 credit card-sized RaspberryRead More →
Incident occurred after employee responded to e-mail phish scam. In a blog post on Sunday, Snapchat executives revealed that the payroll data of some current and former employees was exposed asRead More →
Until recently, sample wasn’t detected by any of the top antivirus programs. Researchers have uncovered what appears to be newly developed Mac malware from HackingTeam, a discovery that’s prompting speculation thatRead More →
