Group chat service HipChat made an announcement on its blog that their Security Intelligence Team detected a “vulnerability” in a third-party library used by the app. In simpler terms, someRead More →
A vulnerability in the Microsoft Edge browser can be exploited and allow an attacker to obtain a user’s password and cookie files for various online accounts. The vulnerability came toRead More →
SophosLabs has discovered a new spam campaign where ransomware is downloaded and run by a macro hidden inside a Word document that is in turn nested within a PDF, like a Russian matryoshkaRead More →
A group of Israeli researchers has devised a new technique to exfiltrate data from a PC in an air-gapped network through malware controlled via scanners. The team was composed of Ben Nassi, a graduateRead More →
On Friday, April 7, the FBI arrested Zhengquan Zhang, a 31-year-old IT engineer, who now stands accused of installing malware on his employer’s servers to steal proprietary source. Zhang startedRead More →
Roman Seleznev, the son of the prominent Russian Parliament member Valery Seleznev was sentenced to 27 years in jail for hacking. The Russian hacker Roman Seleznev, aka Track2, was sentenced to 27Read More →
The developer of the AES-NI ransomware claims that the recent “success” he’s been enjoying is due to the NSA exploits leaked last week by the Shadow Brokers group. In aRead More →
Just like Wifatch and Hajime, the BrickerBot malware is the work of a vigilante grey-hat, who goes online by the name of Janit0r, a nickname he chose on the HackRead More →
A Russian malware author is using codified tweets to start and stop DDoS attacks against desired targets. The DDoS attacks are launched from the computers of infected users using aRead More →
