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Hacking Mac With EmPyre

On: October 25, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Malware, Technology, Vulnerabilities

I am the stereotypical Apple fan boy that other bloggers write about. We have MacBook Pro’s, Air’s, Apple TV’s, iPhone’s and iPad’s and even subscribe to Apple Music. You literally couldn’tRead More →

Android phones rooted by “most serious” Linux escalation bug ever

On: October 25, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Malware, Mobile Security, Vulnerabilities

New rooting technique is believed to work against every version. There’s a new method for rooting Android devices that’s believed to work reliably on every version of the mobile operating systemRead More →

24 hours in the life of my home router by Francisco J. Rodriguez

On: October 24, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Malware

Recently a massive DDoS attack has disconnected a large portion of users from the Internet, hackers exploited IoT devices. Is your router secure? “Are we ready to live in a worldRead More →

FakeFile Trojan Opens Backdoors on Linux Computers, Except openSUSE

On: October 22, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Malware, Vulnerabilities

Trojan targets desktops, not servers or IoT devices. Malware authors are taking aim at Linux computers, more precisely desktops and not servers, with a new trojan named FakeFile, currently distributed inRead More →

Hack This: An Overdue Python Primer

On: October 21, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Vulnerabilities

In writing the most recent Hack This (“Scrape the Web with Beautiful Soup”) I again found myself trapped between the competing causes of blog-brevity and making sure everything is totallyRead More →

“Most serious” Linux privilege-escalation bug ever is under active exploit

On: October 21, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Vulnerabilities

Lurking in the kernel for nine years, flaw gives untrusted users unfettered root access. A serious vulnerability that has been present for nine years in virtually all versions of the LinuxRead More →

In-Development Ransomware Encrypts while Pretending to be a Click Me Game

On: October 20, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Malware

Yesterday, GData malware analyst Karsten Hahn discovered an in-development ransomware disguised as a click me game. When executed the ransomware will launch a screen that contains a Click Me button that a userRead More →

LinkedIn says hacking suspect is tied to breach that stole 117M passwords

On: October 20, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Malware, Vulnerabilities

Russian man drove luxury car, then collapsed after being apprehended, police say. An alleged Russian hacker arrested in the Czech Republic following an FBI-coordinated tip-off is suspected of taking part in aRead More →

Indian Bank Blocks 600,000 Debit Cards After ATM Malware Incident

On: October 19, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Malware, Vulnerabilities

Biggest credit card replacement in India’s history. The State Bank of India (SBI) said today it decided to block over 600,000 debit cards after rumors of a malware infection onRead More →

New-looking Sundown EK drops Smoke Loader, Kronos banker

On: October 19, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Vulnerabilities

As we keep a tab on exploit kits, today we are looking at some changes with Sundown EK. Nowhere near as popular as RIG EK, this exploit kit still remains aRead More →

Crooks exploit a zero-day in WordPress eCommerce Plugin to upload a backdoor

On: October 18, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Malware, Vulnerabilities

Experts from the White Fir Design discovered cybe rcriminals exploited a zero-day flaw in an e-commerce plugin for WordPress to upload a backdoor. According to the experts from the firmRead More →

Crooks Leverage Explosives to Rob ATMs Because Malware Is Overrated

On: October 17, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Malware, Vulnerabilities

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 →

Android Banking Trojan Asks for Selfie With Your ID

On: October 15, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Malware, Mobile Security

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 →

A New Linux Trojan Called NyaDrop Threatens the IoT Landscape

On: October 14, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Malware, Vulnerabilities

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 →

OffensiveWare Sold on Hacking Forums as Exploit Builder and Next-Gen Keylogger

On: October 13, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Malware, Vulnerabilities

New hacking tools arrive on underground hacking forums. The latest addition to the malware scene is a new set of hacking tools advertised under the OffensiveWare brand, available as rentable MaaSRead More →

Bitcoin Wallet Blockchain.info Recovers from DNS Hijacking Attack

On: October 13, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Vulnerabilities

At the time of writing, everything is back to normal. Blockchain.info, the largest web-based Bitcoin wallet, suffered a DNS hijacking attack today when users accessing the site were pointed toRead More →

How to hack a security CCTV camera

On: October 10, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Malware, Vulnerabilities

Watch how simple it really is to hack a security camera. CCTV cameras are thought to be the final frontier in protecting physical assets and humans against crime. However, over theRead More →

Javascript Leads to Browser Hijacking

On: October 10, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Malware

I came across this nasty-looking script that hijacks your browser. It appears to have been around in some shape or form since 2014 but this latest version deploys an aggressiveRead More →

Reversing and Exploiting Embedded Devices (Walking the software and hardware stack)

On: October 8, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Malware, Vulnerabilities

As technology matures and microprocessors are becoming cheap we are starting to see a trend of products that are now ?smart.? The problem is that once we discover how theseRead More →

Students Hacked a Chip to Give Your Smartphone a Sense of Touch

On: October 7, 2016

In: Important, Incidents, Vulnerabilities

Project Soli, which debuted at Google I/O in 2015, is a tiny chip that uses radar to detect discreet hand and finger motions. It was designed as a unique wayRead More →

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