Another major exploit kit (EK) looks like it’s heading for the EK graveyard as activity from the RIG EK has fallen to less than 25% of what the exploit kitRead More →
Security experts have discovered a method of bypassing Windows PatchGuard protections and hooking malicious code into the Windows kernel, which allows an attacker to plant rootkits on systems previously thoughtRead More →
WikiLeaks dumped today the manuals of several hacking utilities part of Brutal Kangaroo, a CIA malware toolkit for hacking into air-gapped (offline) networks using tainted USB thumb drive. According toRead More →
Hackers can exploit electronic cigarettes and any other electronic device to deliver a malware in a poorly protected network. In November 2014, in a discussion started on the Reddit newsRead More →
WHEN YOU THINK of a standard hacker toolkit, software vulnerabilities and malware come to mind. But a pair of researchers are testing a different type of instrument: a physical toolRead More →
On Monday, Honda was forced to temporarily shut down its car plant in Sayama, Japan, after some of its computer systems were infected with the infamous WannaCry ransomware, reported ReutersRead More →
The crusty SMBv1 file-sharing protocol, abused by a NSA exploit last month that spread WannaCry, will be removed from Windows 10 starting with the upcoming Redstone 3 update. “We canRead More →
Almost 100 such apps, with >1 million downloads, found so far (but not by Google). For the second time this month, Google has removed Android apps from its Google PlayRead More →
Pinkslipbot banking Trojan is a banking Trojan that uses a complicated multistage proxy for HTTPS-based control server communication. Security researchers at McAfee Labs have spotted a new strain of the PinkslipbotRead More →
A Dutch web developer has created a rootkit that hides inside a PHP module and can be used to take over web servers via a rarely used attack vector: ApacheRead More →
